I read all the Black Stallion books around that age.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 3:29:04 pm PDT #8869 of 28706
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Fay - Apr 16, 2009 6:03:43 pm PDT #8870 of 28706
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm going to say Diana Wynne Jones again. And maybe Joan Aiken.
Strega - Apr 16, 2009 7:27:27 pm PDT #8871 of 28706
Laga -- Heh, oddly enough the specific "character lost in a creepy swamp" scenario I was thinking of was in The Black Stallion's Ghost. But of course most of them weren't all spooky like that.
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 9:02:43 pm PDT #8872 of 28706
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
man, Google is giving me no love. I thought the next Rothfuss book was due this month but I find no info on Powell's or Amazon. Does anybody know what's happened?
Polter-Cow - Apr 16, 2009 9:11:54 pm PDT #8873 of 28706
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 9:14:37 pm PDT #8874 of 28706
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thanks P-C. I was just coming back to post that.
Fred Pete - Apr 17, 2009 6:00:05 am PDT #8875 of 28706
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
I didn't read it until I was a good bit older (I was in college when it came out). Possibly a bit on the scary side, but not extremely so. Also some semi-explicit sex scenes that aren't appropriate for some 11YOs.
It's also a very long book -- 800 or 900 pages. So not for the short attention spanned.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2009 6:19:20 am PDT #8876 of 28706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also some semi-explicit sex scenes that aren't appropriate for some 11YOs.
Maybe not, but I read 'em anyway.
Barb - Apr 17, 2009 6:33:52 am PDT #8877 of 28706
“Not dead yet!”
I read WIFEY when I was twelve.
Got suspended for it, too.
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2009 7:01:03 am PDT #8878 of 28706
That which does not kill you should RUN
I thought the next Rothfuss book was due this month
I, uh, actually have the release dates for upcoming books on my iCal. (I don't know who Rothfuss is, but I have other books on my calendar.) (Shut up.)