I loved Christopher Pike at that age, for the creepy, supernatural-y when Stephen King was still beyond me.
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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."
EpicTangent - Jul 22, 2013 9:07:37 am PDT #21147 of 28377
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
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?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2013 1:10:25 pm PDT #21152 of 28377
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy?
WindSparrow - Jul 22, 2013 1:46:58 pm PDT #21153 of 28377
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Seconding the McCaffrey.
Amy - Jul 22, 2013 1:49:40 pm PDT #21154 of 28377
Because books.
Oh! Lois Duncan! They reissued most of them -- Down a Dark Hall is my personal favorite, but there are a bunch of thrillery sort of mysteries she might like.
EpicTangent - Jul 22, 2013 1:51:43 pm PDT #21155 of 28377
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Ooh, seconding Lois Duncan! Loved her!
Amy - Jul 22, 2013 1:54:22 pm PDT #21156 of 28377
Because books.
I can't find my original, hardback copy of Down a Dark Hall and it kills me. Mostly because I would love to reread it. I LOVE Lois Duncan.