I like Amy's recs and second both. I also like Starters by Lissa Pierce.
Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
Xander ,'Him'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Kat - Jul 21, 2013 3:25:37 pm PDT #21142 of 28377
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sj - Jul 21, 2013 3:44:03 pm PDT #21143 of 28377
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Graveyard Book, as well as the other Gaiman books mentioned above. The Series of Unfortunate Events.
meara - Jul 21, 2013 6:28:21 pm PDT #21144 of 28377
Definitely all the Tamora PIerce, but yeah, my first thought was "has she tried the Star Trek/Star Wars books?"
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2013 7:46:25 pm PDT #21145 of 28377
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Skulduggery Pleasant, if she digs Harry Potter.
Gris - Jul 22, 2013 5:41:27 am PDT #21146 of 28377
Hey. New board.
Percy Jackson is popular and fun.
EpicTangent - Jul 22, 2013 9:07:37 am PDT #21147 of 28377
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I loved Christopher Pike at that age, for the creepy, supernatural-y when Stephen King was still beyond me.
Kate P. - Jul 22, 2013 10:37:44 am PDT #21148 of 28377
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
For a kid who likes musicals, I'd recommend Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle, a fun new middle-grade novel about a kid who goes to Broadway, and Drama by Raina Telgemeier, a graphic novel about a middle-school drama club. Graphic novels in general might be something to look into, actually.
Toddson - Jul 22, 2013 12:59:53 pm PDT #21149 of 28377
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Diana Wynne Jones?
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2013 1:01:27 pm PDT #21150 of 28377
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Earthsea?
hippocampus - Jul 22, 2013 1:10:07 pm PDT #21151 of 28377
not your mom's socks.
Seconding Tiffany Aching. Also Jessica Day George, maybe. Possibly Douglas Adams?