Can anyone recommend a book for an 11 year old tomboy?

[JohnClancy]

As the title says, She has exhausted the Harry Potter Novels and is after something else.

Thanks

[davepoth]

JohnClancy said:

As the title says, She has exhausted the Harry Potter Novels and is after something else.

Thanks

If she managed the Harry Potter books and enjoyed them she's a mature enough reader to have a pop at Tolkien if she hasn't already. Start with the Hobbit, as it was designed as a (clever) kids' book.

After that I think Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are fantastic. They're very easy to read but incredibly well written.

[grumbledoak]

His Dark Materials?

[RobDickinson]

some of this stuff..?

http://www.muchamore.com/books.aspx

hmm might be a bit old for an 11 yo

Edited by RobDickinson on Tuesday 8th November 21:06

[GrumpyTwig]

Trudi Canavan

Has some brilliant trilogys, one similar to HP but different all the same and has some cracking characters in it. Lots of strong female leads too.

[JohnClancy]

Thanks, I think "His Dark Materials' will do the trick,

[SystemParanoia]

http://www.codingclub.co.uk/black_flag.php

How about this one. Black flag.

Companion website and really good story too

[JohnClancy]

Thanks for all the tips,
I have been recommended this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M0YCUER by the wife's friend who said her daughter loved it, and ordered a hard copy of his Dark Materials.

[kowalski655]

Swallows and Amazons?
Lots of outdoor adventure, maybe a bit old fashioned though.

[otolith]

grumbledoak said:

His Dark Materials?

^^ this.

Then re-read it in ten years.

[shirt]

terry pratchett's discworld

start her off on equal rites or the colour of magic. if that sparks an interest then there'as a good 10 years of reading ahead of her

[oldbanger]

Here's a few much loved titles from my own time as a young tomboy

Alanna the first adventure - Tamora Pearce
The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
Ash - a secret history - Mary Gentle
Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly

[Nom de ploom]

The turbulent term of tyke tyler?
Flowers for Algernon
The Hobbit
TO kill a mockingbird

latter two not original by any means but all were school class reading material at 9-13 for me

[Hugo a Gogo]

JohnClancy said:

As the title says, She has exhausted the Harry Potter Novels and is after something else.

Thanks

My daughter is 10 and was in the same boat, loved Lemony Snicket books after HP

[13m]

Hugo a Gogo said:

My daughter is 10 and was in the same boat, loved Lemony Snicket books after HP

Is it my filthy mind, or is Lemony Snicket a reference to a lady's secret place?

[Hugo a Gogo]

13m said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

My daughter is 10 and was in the same boat, loved Lemony Snicket books after HP

Is it my filthy mind, or is Lemony Snicket a reference to a lady's secret place?

it's your filthy mind

Lemony?

[battered]

Ask her English teacher. My mum was one, she had a long list of books for kids of every age and ability. She used to use me as a means of vetting them when I was a kid, depending on how old I was at the time and my opinion she'd work out how it would go down in class for the anticipated readers. It got quite complicated, because special needs 14 yr olds may only have a reading age of 10 but they don't want to be reading about Flopsy, Mopsy and Topsy, they live in the real world where people have to struggle with real-world problems like trouble at home, school, boy- and girl-friends and so on.

From memory:
Alan Garner - lots
Chronicles of Narnia (maybe a bit too young for her now)
Swallows & Amazons - dated but still good, the girl characters in it are no second fiddle to the boys.
Hobbit
Robert Westall. Possibly a bit boyish, but he tells a good yarn.
Some of the easy classics might be in reach. Try Steinbeck - Mice and Men. Cannery Row.

Edited by battered on Wednesday 9th November 14:17

[yellowjack]

Chickenhawk?

[Bill]

Mine loves the Percy Jackson series and Tui Sutherland's books. (As well as the Chronicles of Narnia and other classics.)

[HappyMidget]

Narnia, Discworld (My personal favourite series of books).