Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
A 12 year old boy - loves to read, into a bunch of sports baseball, basketball, football, soccer
I remember seeing sports books by Matt Christopher all the time, but I don't whether they're actually any good.
Want to get her a book that will remind her that just cause other things are fun too, books have not stopped being pleasurable.
Does she like magic? I recommend Half Magic by Edward Eager. Because...come on.
Um, for the second one, maybe "Forever"...I liked it when I was fifteen.
Forever is a good one, but it might have squicked me to get it from an uncle or male family friend.
Ben (age 9) devours Matt Christopher books, but I think they might be a little young for a 12 year old.
Maybe Hatchet by Gary Paulsen for the boy.
If he likes Harry Potter, maybe he'll like the Lemony Snicket books? Or Artemis Fowl? Or the other three thousand similar series?
For the 12 y.o. boy, maybe Chabon's Summerland which is both baseball and magic and age appropriate.
Yeah, maybe, Cindy...Paula Danziger? Funny and nsm About The Sex.
Both my brothers ate up biographies of sports figures at that age. If you found out what teams he likes, you could see if there is a good bio of one its star players.
Both my brothers ate up biographies of sports figures at that age. If you found out what teams he likes, you could see if there is a good bio of one its star players.
This is true of Emmett as well. He loves reading about Jackie Robinson and Honus Wager and Babe Ruth. I also enjoyed getting big omnibus collections of 100 Greatest Sports Heroes type things.
Not just bios of sports figures. There's quite a bit of sports-related stuff out there that isn't bios.
I'll go out on a limb with the 15YO -- older (less gruesome) mysteries? The first "grown-up" books I read (and ok, I was more like 12 or 13 at the time) were by Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, and Erle Stanley Gardner.