Need book ideas for 13yo son

[sandyr]

My 13yo son is an avid reader. He is currently enjoying medieval fantasy stories. He's read Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eragon books, Prydain Chronicles, Ranger's Apprentice series, probably some others which I can't remember offhand.

 

He's clamoring for more book ideas, but I'm running out.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Sandy

[Sue G in PA]

My ds11 is enjoying the Chris D'Lancey dragon series...The Fire Within, Icefire, etc. It is certainly fantasy. If you are conservative Christian, I'll warn you that there are some references to occult practices in IceFire (book 2) in the series (spells, potions, chants, etc....nothing like human sacrifice or anything). I almost didn't let ds11 read the series, but dh said he is old enough to know this is "fantasy" and nothing to play around with. Others might disagree. I almost did. But, dh insisted we let him read it.

[Pippen]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

[Lori D.]

more books by TOLKIEN

- Letters from Father Christmas (Tolkien)

- Smith of Wooten Major; Farmer Giles of Ham; Leaf by Niggle (Tolkien) short stories

- Roverandom (Tolkien)

- Children of Hurin (Tolkien)

- The Silmarillion

- Unfinished Tales

 

 

FANTASY

- The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)

- The Never Ending Story (Ende)

- The Mysterious Benedict Society; The Perilous Journey (Stewart)

- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken)

- Chronicles of Narnia series (Lewis)

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)

- Half Magic; Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle; Time Garden; Seven Day Magic (Eager)

- Five Children and It; The Phoenix and the Carpet; The Amulet; The Book of Dragons (Nesbit)

- Peter and the Star Catchers series (Barry)

- The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson)

- Dragon Magic (Norton)

- Dragon Keeper series (Paul)

- Inkheart trilogy (Funke)

- The Blue Sword; The Hero and the Crown (McKinley)

 

 

FANTASY with medieval type setting

- The Reluctant Dragon (Grahame)

- Enchanted Forest Chronicles series (Wrede) -- dragons

- Enchantress from the Stars (Engdahl) -- both sci-fi and fantasy!

- The Rumplestiltskin Problem (Velde)

- Redwall series (Jacques)

- Dragon Chronicles series (Fletcher)

- Camelot (Yolen) -- short stories based around King Arthur

 

 

FANTASY featuring sentient animals as main characters

- Varjak Paw (Said)

- The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, Miss Bianca in the Orient (Sharpe)

- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien)

- Watership Down (Adams)

- Redwall series (Jacques)

 

 

"FLUFF" FANTASY (light books like Ranger's Apprentice)

- Tiger's Apprentice series (Yep)

- Dragon Cauldron; Dragon Sword; Dragon of the Lost Sea; etc. (Yep)

- Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (Riordan)

- Artemis Fowle series (Colfer) -- later books in the series become darker, not so light/fun

- Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, Wings (Pratchett)

- Camelot (Yolen) -- short stories based around King Arthur

 

 

FANTASY for OLDER TEENS

- the Earthsea trilogy: Wizard of Earthsea; Tombs of Atuan; Farthest Shore (LeGuin)

- Aurelia's thread series: Aurelia's Colors; Cyndere's Midnight; Raven's Ladder (Overstreet)

- His Majesty's Dragon serise (Novik) -- fluff; some language; some references to intimate relations

 

 

MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE

- The Great and Terrible Quest (Lovett)

- Adam of the Road (Gray)

- Shakespeare Stealer (Blackwood)

- The Samurai's Tale (Haugaard)

- The Master Puppeteer (Paterson)

- Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (French)

- Ivanhoe (Scott)

- The Trumpeter of Krakow (Kelly)

- Otto of the Silver Hand (Pyle)

- Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Pyle)

- Men of Iron (Pyle)

- King Arthur and His Knights (Pyle) -- King Arthur

- The Story of the Companions of the Round Table (Pyle) -- King Arthur

- Black Horses for the King (McCaffrey) -- King Arthur

- The Seeing Stone (Crossley-Holland) -- King Arthur references

- The Sword in the Stone (White) -- young King Arthur before he is king

Edited November 24, 2009 by Lori D.
added info