I need some book recommendations for an 11 year girl and 12 year old boy other than Harry Potter.
I need some book recommendations for an 11 year girl and 12 year old boy other than Harry Potter.
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Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy ?
Percy Jackson series.
Georgia Nicholson series for the girl.
The Hobit. The diaries of a whimpy kid (you also have a girl version, don’t know the name)
Dork Diaries
@Chirelle yes! That was the name!
Rick riordan books is middle grade and good to
Percy Jackson is amazing!
The Hobbit
Hunger Games Series
Twilight Series
Pendragon by DJ McHale! (My recommendation for everyone lol)
Does it get better after the first book cause tbh it’s not my fav so far
Very much so! Book 1 is slow because of the set up. The other territories are so much better.
The Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke!
I forget how old i was when i read these forgive me but I know I was young. “The thief of Always” by clive barker, and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The beeeest
Nancy drew
A wrinkle in time
Land of Stories
The Angel Experiment by James
Patterson. Excellent books for both of them.
The westing game
Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson/ His dark materials trilogy / Cirque du freak
Most of Neil Gaiman would do too. Specially The Graveyard book/ Coraline/ the ocean at the end of the lane/ Fortunately the milk
Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans!
James Patterson has a lot of middle school aged books. They are really good. Also look at J.M. Pierce. He has some Syfy books for that age also.
Percy Jackson
the Lemony Snicket series of unfortunate events.
The Maze Runner Series
Ridley Pearson Kingdom Keeper Series
The Mysterious Benedict Society!!!
Percy Jackson
Mysterious Benedict Society
Fablehaven
Gregor the Overlander
Island of the Blue Dolphins
True confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Kind of older ones, but really really good!!
I loved The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle!
Mooneyes and the dark moon council
The Wings of Fire series
I am not sure what age it’s recommended for but Richard Paul Evans has a series called Michael McVey that is for younger people
Any of Rick Riordans series’!
Skulduggery Pleasant ?
I read this series called “The Unicorn Chronicles” when I was that age. Sounds cringey, but I’m still fascinated by the story line.
The Chronicles of Narnia series
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend. Second one is called Wundersmith and has only just been released ?
Winnie the Pooh
Rick Riordan’s books are great for that age!
The Secret Garden
The Fablehaven Series!!
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
Check out the Magic Treehouse books. I enjoyed those when I was a kid
Series of Unfortunate Events
Chronicles of Narnia
Redwall series
Maximum Ride by James Patterson are great!!
@David too bad the movie was terrible ;-;
But loved the book!
There are no words for how br that movie was lol
It was cringe worthy for sure xD
Goosebumps
El Perfume
Narnia and Percy Jackson
Sisters Grimm Series by Micheal Buckley, The Lockwood & Co. Series by Jonathan Stroud,The Meuseum of Thieves series by Lian Tanner
Lord of the ring books and the curious incident of the dog in The nighttime is a great book
Goosebumps… my daughter loved those books at that age
School for Good and Evil
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Nevermoor.
A Wrinkle in Time
Black Beauty , Heidi
Artemis fowl
Percy jackson
Dactyl Hill Squad, Fablehaven, Spy Schoool and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.
Rick Riordan’s books – Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Trials of Apollo, God’s of Asgard & Kane Chronicles
Children of the Lamp by P.B. Kerr;
Rangers Apprentice series
Gregor the Overlander
Divergent series
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Eragon series
Hoot
How to Kill a Mockingbird
Hatchet series
Well, for the girl, Babysitters club is popular again I think.
York: the Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby and the Book Scavenger series by Laura Chambliss Bertman
Hank The Cowdog! If one or both like it, there are 72 more!
http://www.hankthecowdog.com/books
Shadow falls series by C C Hunter (girl)
see you in the cosmos
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
thats a great one
I loved both the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books as a kid. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien as well.
Lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyers
Percy Jackson series
Maximum ride by James Peterson is a good series for both of them
All these suggestions are brilliant, and so heartfelt – may I say I adore this page, and always look forward to new knowledge of my soulmates, ie books!
The Penderwicks series, Wonder, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (graphic novel), The War I Finally Won, and for non-fiction Following Atticus, and The Soul of an Octopus.
That you so much everyone. My niece and nephew need to have some fun reading instead of just playing on their xbox.
A friend recommends the Inkheart series.
Love Sugar Magic– might appeal to the girl more, but it’s about a Mexican girl discovering that her family are witches and that their bakery is used for magic etc. I think the second book is coming out soon, it’s so heartwarming and it’s got a great cover as well!! Undercover Princess is also super good. Also the David Baddiel books, the Explorer by Katherine Rundell, the Magisterium series, Septimus Heap and the Secrets of Nicholas Flamel are great for both <3
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series – an underappreciated mix of mythology and modern heroism.
The golden compass ?
Maximum Ride
Babysitters Club series for the girl. Not so sure the boy would enjoy it. A Series of Unfortunate Events is good for both boys and girls.
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass), Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (it has a whole series if they like it). And one I’ve never read but my students talk about all the time is The Land of Stories.
Magic pants (for the girl)
Eragon
Percy Jackson
Princess diaries series by Meg Cabot
The sisterhood of the Traveling pants
Charlotte’s web
Chronicles of Narnia
Ranger’s Apprentice, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Little Women, Call of the Wild, Hatchet
Zom b series
Ghost girl trilogy
Elizabeth Parker on Amazon
Anything by Rick Riordan
Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
Heretic’s Anonymous
Maximum Ride
Goosebumps fear street by R.L. Stine
Artemis fowl
All of the “Wrinkle in Time” series (5 total)
Lightning thief
The Lunar Chronicles
Descendents by melissa De la Cruz
The vampire’s assistant series by Darren shan is good too
@Tamara loved this series!
@Courtney I’ve been reading that series since middle school I love it I still read it
I’ve heard good things about Nevermoor
Magisterium series
The Golden compass by Philip Pullman
The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch
Kingdom keeper. Disney after hours.
Inheritance Cycle
Try Enid Blyton 🙂
Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz
Forbidden Doors Series by Bill Meyer’s
The Rangers Apprentice.
The Ranger’s Apprentice series.
Julie of the Wolves, Where the Red Fern Grows, A Little Princess, Tom Sawyer.
I’ve also heard good things about Fablehaven, The Penderwicks, The Green Ember, and The Lightening Thief.
Viajeros el tiempo ruby, zafiro y esmeralda
Warriors series by Erin Hunter and Prydain chronicles by Lloyd Alexander (book two is the Black Cauldron).
Necronomicon
And you married me intentionally!
Comic books. Super Sons and Adventures of Super Sons both written by Peter J Tomasi
Artemis fowl, David Eddings, Tamora Pierce, Percy Jackson and Jonathan Stroud ?
Oh my god…. Artemis Fowl, Chronicles of Narnia, Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson
Skulduggery pleasant by derek landy ? they are amazing!!!!!
How To Train Your Dragon. Narnia. Dahl (like sort of a prelude to Orwell in my opinion). If you don’t mind, some classics like Twain’s books, Catcher in the Rye might be too soon. Animal Farm (iconic), Secret Seven is good as well
Also I second ASOUE, bc then u can watch the Netflix series if u have Netflix and do compare and contrast
And like an intro to that kind of writing style. Like narrative but narrator taking a huge role in the book, I live for that narrative style! But the movie is eh so better skip that
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS!!!!!!!!!!
Divergent series
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann (for both)
Waterfire Saga by Jennifer Donnelly (for the girl)
Nevermoor! It’s a great middle-grade book and 1st in a series
Percy Jackson!!
Beast Quest series
My kids, boy and girl, liked this author, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40669514
Gallagher girls by Ally Carter
I survived series
The Giver
Spy School. Maze Runner.
Septimus heap and inkheart series
Percy Jackson series
I recently read this, and liked it a lot!
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
What about the chronicle of narnia
Fablehaven, Candy Shop Wars, Percy Jackson…
Last Kids on Earth, Monstrous Devices, Rangers Apprentice, Counting by 7s, Fish in a Tree, all things Roald Dahl, Theo Boone, The Westing Game, Wonder.
The adventures wanted series and goosebumps
Alice in wonderland
Lemoney Snicket or Percy Jackson,
Percy Jackson for sure, there are three series in that world, plus the Kane Chronicles which is VERY similar (by the same author)
The 39 clues
Heist Society
Gallagher Girls series
Hex Hall
Chronicles of Narnia
Miss Peregrines series
A book I recently read was Falling Kingdoms, it’s like a young adult (very tame) version of game of thrones with all the characters having a connection or reason to rule the kingdoms. There is some battle/violence and it is young adult so it would probably be suitable for a mature 12/13 y/o or older, but it’s a good series to look into!
The alex rider series!
Molly Moon! It is very interesting and I loved them at my age. Suitable for boys and girls.
Books by Cornelia Funke. I loved her books!
Percy Jackson
percy jackson, R.L Stine’s Goosebumps series, Diary of a wimpy kid, famous five and Roald Dahl’s novels
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. I loved those books. Its great for kids who love spy books.
The land of stories books by Chris Colfer are really good, they’re kind of long but they give twists to regular fairy tales and to this day the land of stories series i still one of my favorites!
Skulduggery Pleasant