ProudGrandma Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I want to find some good books for my daughter to read, not just "fluff"....so what is your dd reading?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brookspr Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 My 12yo daughter just finished Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. Totally not like the 50 Shades of Gray adult book :laugh: It is about a 15 year old Lithuanian girl who, along with her brother and mother, are taken by the Soviet police to Sibera along with many others from their country. It is about their fight to stay alive and reunite with their families. It's probably a little bit under her reading level, but she couldn't put it down and finished it in one day. Although she still reads the "fluff" books occasionally, she also enjoys historical fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanvan Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 My Dd is 11, but she's currently reading Jane Austen's Emma and Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Dd12 is reading/devouring The Mysterious Benedict Society series. She also just finished listening to a fully dramatized audio version of The Hobbit that she LOVED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 DD11 has been reading the Daniel X series and just finished Here There Be Dragons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyJ Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I believe my Daughter has now finished the Dragon Slippers trilogy by Jessica Day George which is kinda fluffy. She is reading the Hobbit and rereading Ruby Holler. (she says this one is because she can't decide which of her other books to read next) After posting this I realized my signature is very outdated. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 For fun dd is reading Christy Miller. Unfortunately this is her favorite stuff to read for fun. For school assigned reading dd has read, As You Like It, Robinson Crusoe, and Wind in the Willows, (for the third time but this time we used a Memoria Press Guide) lately. BTW, I do not care for the Memoria Press Guides. I bought them from Rainbow Resources and the Robinson Crusoe translation they sold me did not match the guide, so we had a very hard time following it. That was not the only problem, and maybe it was the fault of RR, but I did not care for them much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 The biggest hits recently have been Pride & Prejudice, the Forensic Mysteries series and Artichoke Heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Last year my dd went on a mystery kick (well this year too, hehe). There was a series The Lady Grace Mysteries that she really liked. Not hard reads, but enjoyable and historical. This year her whole world is Tolkien. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Jean Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 My daughter loved everything from Gene Stratton Porter when she was about 12. Also the Dear America Series, Anne of Green Gables, Cherry Ames, Sue Barton (she loves nursing books) anything by Louisa May Alcott, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Hiding Place (maybe a little older for content here)Jane Eyre, Night and Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry. (Any historical fiction really) I can't keep the kid stocked with enough books...she's 15 now so it's even harder as I'm particular as to the content she reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudGrandma Posted February 24, 2013 Author Share Posted February 24, 2013 Last year my dd went on a mystery kick (well this year too, hehe). There was a series The Lady Grace Mysteries that she really liked. Not hard reads, but enjoyable and historical. This year her whole world is Tolkien. The lady Grace series looks interesting...is there an order to the books....or doesnt' it matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thowell Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 This year her whole world is Tolkien. Right there with you. On book 2 of LOTR and talking about it non stop! :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 My 12yo is reading Myths of Greece and Rome by Guerber. She also has Call of the WIld on her stack. She recently finished a reread through The Giver trilogy + Son (the new 4th book). She loves the Red Pyramid books. She has a really tough school load so I let her read fluffy stuff when she wants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 A big hit here has been the "Enola Holmes" series, whose protagonist is Sherlock Holmes younger sister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Dragons of starlight series, the Wormling series, Journey forth books, Narnia series, Nancy Drew * sorry, I just noticed you asked for 12 year old dd. Well, mine is only 10 but they are still great books ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 The lady Grace series looks interesting...is there an order to the books....or doesnt' it matter? The books have letters that fit the title. I don't think the order you read them particularly matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudGrandma Posted February 24, 2013 Author Share Posted February 24, 2013 wow...my amazon cart is getting full....thanks. Any other ones i need to consider??? A little about my daughter that might help with ideas too...she likes to read books about helping other or about the "under dog" rising up at the end. She love books that show a strong family life or kids doing the right thing. She likes animal stories and mysteries that aren't scary or spooky. She is very tender hearted and isn't into sports. She likes adventure, but not too suspensful. She also like some historical fiction, but not books that are hard to read because of a dilect or verbage that is very period oreinted (did that make sense?). Sci Fi is also not her big interest. Thanks again for all of these ideas....some of them fit, others not so much....but that is ok....there are so many books "out there" it's hard to know where to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Have you tried James Herriott? People who like animals seem to like his stories, because he was a vet. Also the Sam Campbell books are fun. There's a whole series of them, very funny. Yes, definitely check out the Sam Campbell books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 My 11 yo is currently enjoying: Erec Rex series Nancy Farmer's The Ear, the Eye & the Arm and A Girl Called Disaster T. A. Barron's various Merlin series (recently re-released as one series) Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur series the Jeeves and Wooster novels/stories (a perennial favourite) The Cat Whiskered Girl the Alex Rider series ETA: And M. T. Anderson's Game of Sunken Places series. I don't know the actual series name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 The Book Thief (upon my suggestion - I couldn't put it down). She is loving it too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Mine is reading the Julie of the Wolves series, she just finished the Eragon series, and whatever else I make her read for school (snicker) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 When I was that age, I loved A Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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