How about Diana Wynne Jones? Anything, but especially Witch Week, Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona or Dogsbody.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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."
Fay - Apr 16, 2009 7:46:38 am PDT #8850 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P.M. Marc - Apr 16, 2009 8:42:51 am PDT #8851 of 28414
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
However, in some ways she still has an 11-year-old mind. She likes fantasy, but not if it's "too scary." She thinks Harry Potter is too scary. I suggested Robin McKinley. Any other ideas?
Douglas Adams! Okay, it's not really fantasy, but I loved HHGttG at that age (I think I was 7 or 8 when I first read it). I'd advise against my go-to between grades 3 and 6, which was Piers Anthony.
Ooo! Discworld. She's a good age for Discworld.
Ginger - Apr 16, 2009 9:22:19 am PDT #8852 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Such good ideas. I love Gerald Durrell and Douglas Adams, but they didn't occur to me.
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 12:04:45 pm PDT #8853 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?
Tom Scola - Apr 16, 2009 12:05:37 pm PDT #8854 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?
Much, much worse.
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 12:08:03 pm PDT #8855 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I remember crying. & the cat was very scary, but I didn't read Harry until I was older so it's hard to compare.
Polter-Cow - Apr 16, 2009 12:19:26 pm PDT #8856 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?
Given that the book ends with the most adorable and lovable bunny of them all going CATATONIC, I say yes.
javachik - Apr 16, 2009 12:27:33 pm PDT #8857 of 28414
Our wings are not tired.
Remember, Richard Adams wrote Watership, in case you were gettin' him confused with Douglas.
Hil R. - Apr 16, 2009 1:01:32 pm PDT #8858 of 28414
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I first read The Mists of Avalon around that age, or a little older. I loved it then, though I don't really remember how scary it was.
How about Wrinkle in Time and all its sequels?
Strega - Apr 16, 2009 1:19:39 pm PDT #8859 of 28414
I don't know how scary Harry Potter is, but I was 10 or 11 the first time I read Watership Down. I don't remember anything about it being scary. Sad sometimes, sure, but there aren't evil powers and monsters and ghosts and so on. I suppose it depends what in particular she finds scary. It's certainly got bad things happening to animals, but so did half of the books I read at that age, so I don't think it stood out.