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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."
Oh man. Reading The King Must Die and The Bull From The Sea gave me a bigger Greek mythology crush than the big yellow D'Aulaire book of stories did. Good times! Even if I was a bit young for all the sex scenes.
Clive Barker's Abarat is YA friendly and if you get the older editions the colorful art is amazing.
Is he too young for Dune?
Read on, young person!
John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost is a must-read.
C.S. Lewis' Narnia books might be a good choice if he doesn't regard them as kid stuff.
Charles De Lint's Moonheart isn't a classic, but might be worth a look.
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Lythande collection is pretty good, and though it deals with some adult themes regarding gender I don't think there's anything graphic.
Is Christopher Stasheff's work still in print? I remember The Warlock in Spite of Himself and The Warlock Unlocked, in particular, as great fun. I remember the first as a bit suggestive in a couple spots -- for example, a woman turns herself into a mouse and runs under a man's clothes. No details, though -- we're talking no more graphic than mildly PG-13, if that.
Question for the Literary Hivemind:
Do you recall a science fiction (or possibly fantasy) novel in which people lived their whole lives in tree because the ground was acidic and would dissolve them?
Thanks!
Kate, an oldie that I liked was Joy Chant's Red Moon, Black Mountain.
Oh, and of course! Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief and its sequels. Don't tell him ANYTHING. Just read them.
Co-signed. Like, a lot.
Mercedes Lackey? Valdemar series was my first thought.
sumi, have you tried the What's the Name of that Book? section on Goodreads?
sumi, I remember reading something with people living in trees (though I don't remember the ground being acidic) but it doesn't seem to be by who I thought it was and I can't remember the title so I am not helping you and giving myself something to look for. Oops.
Mercedes Lackey? Valdemar series was my first thought.
Aren't her books chock full of sex?
Aren't her books chock full of sex?
I wouldn't say chock-full, but I'd think twice about letting a kid read the third volume of the trilogy.
Jonathan Stroud, both the Bartimaeus books and the Lockwood & Co. series.
Marie Lu, the Legend series and Warcross (1 book out so far)
Scott Westerfeld, the Leviathan series
Lisa Maxwell, The Last Magician
Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust and the Golden Compass trilogy
Marissa Mayer, The Lunar Chronicles (Book 1 is Cinder)