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.
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
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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."
Topic!Cindy - Jul 29, 2005 8:21:45 am PDT #8737 of 10002
What is even happening?
ChiKat - Jul 29, 2005 8:22:50 am PDT #8738 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Maybe Hatchet by Gary Paulsen for the boy.
Polter-Cow - Jul 29, 2005 8:23:14 am PDT #8739 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If he likes Harry Potter, maybe he'll like the Lemony Snicket books? Or Artemis Fowl? Or the other three thousand similar series?
DavidS - Jul 29, 2005 8:23:29 am PDT #8740 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For the 12 y.o. boy, maybe Chabon's Summerland which is both baseball and magic and age appropriate.
erikaj - Jul 29, 2005 8:24:39 am PDT #8741 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, maybe, Cindy...Paula Danziger? Funny and nsm About The Sex.
Scrappy - Jul 29, 2005 8:35:05 am PDT #8742 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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.
DavidS - Jul 29, 2005 8:40:09 am PDT #8743 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Fred Pete - Jul 29, 2005 8:53:11 am PDT #8744 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
Typo Boy - Jul 29, 2005 9:10:09 am PDT #8745 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Hmm - maybe some of the earlier funnier Sharon McCrumbs? Highland Laddie gone? Sick of Shadows. And the 15 year old is a Southerner too, in fact not too far from Monticello.
erikaj - Jul 29, 2005 9:12:59 am PDT #8746 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, Fred, good call!