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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2013 12:17:32 pm PDT #21132 of 28377
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I told by BFF that I would ask you guys for reading recommendations for her daughter. She is a rising 8th grader who is not a natural reader, but has really outgrown the young readers (she liked Junie B. Jones). She likes Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and The Omen. She loves musicals,video games, Star Wars/Star Trek and is impatient and easily bored. She does not seem particularly interested in romance.She does not like things that her mother and I liked as kids, like Little Women, Little House on the Prairie, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, etc.

The only thing we came up with was Stephen King-- she would probably also like VC Andrews, but we hesitate to recommend it!

le nubian - Jul 21, 2013 12:23:12 pm PDT #21133 of 28377
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Divergent. I would recommend this and I think it is age-appropriate. If she liked Hunger Games this is a less violent, less apocalyptic themed novel. Less violent is not NO violence, but since she liked HG, I am recommending it.

I read the first book in a day and a half, so I think that bodes well for being an interesting read.

Consuela - Jul 21, 2013 2:20:20 pm PDT #21134 of 28377
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Sophie, what about the Star Wars or Star Trek tie-in novels? Or the original ST Ship's Logs? Those are pretty straight forward, some of them.

Or some old-school SF, like Andre Norton?

Dana - Jul 21, 2013 2:22:58 pm PDT #21135 of 28377
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The Dark is Rising books? Madeline L'Engle? Some Neil Gaiman, like Coraline or Neverwhere or Stardust?

Consuela - Jul 21, 2013 2:26:18 pm PDT #21136 of 28377
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

... or what Dana said. Or Tamora Pierce, perhaps? Protector of the Small isn't too romancy.

There's also Nnedi Okorafor's fantasies: Akata Witch, Windspeaker, and I memfault the other one. Or Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze, also written for younger readers.

le nubian - Jul 21, 2013 2:27:39 pm PDT #21137 of 28377
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Madeline L'Engle : very formative for me when I was her age and a bit younger.

Ginger - Jul 21, 2013 2:27:44 pm PDT #21138 of 28377
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Tamora Pierce? Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books ( The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight )?

Seraphina is wonderful.

Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2013 2:37:18 pm PDT #21139 of 28377
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you all! I will pass it on-- I also have some old trek tie in novels at my mom's house.

Unfortunately, I think she bailed on A Wrinkle in Time!

Dana - Jul 21, 2013 2:38:07 pm PDT #21140 of 28377
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, maybe Diane Duane's Young Wizards series? Speaking of Trek tie-in novels...because she wrote some...

Amy - Jul 21, 2013 2:39:22 pm PDT #21141 of 28377
Because books.

She might like James Dashner's Maze Runner series, or Robison Wells's Variant and Feedback.

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