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... for my just-about 11yos! He loves Redwall, all Tolkein, Warriors series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, etc .... is there a great series you can recommend that he'd like? He's finally really taken off on his reading and I'd like to encourage it. He loves military history too ....
ANY suggestions would be appreciated as this is so NOT my genre!
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I am SO with you! I have a fantasy loving son and it is so not us, plus we are fairly particular although he has 'encouraged' us to move our boundaries 
Going through Dominic's(14) list of books read(I wouldn't recommend all of these for an 11 yr old, but others might)
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* Emma and the Incredible Shrinking Rat - Jonathon Bean
* Inkheart - Cornelia Funke (Macbeths' List says not her later ones)Mmm now I can't find it.
* The City of Ember (Series)- Jeanne DuPrau
* The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
* Ranger's Apprentice Series - John Flanagan
* Eragon (and sequels)- Christopher Paolini
* Lord of the Rings (Two of my boys read this at 10)- JR Tolkien
*The Hobbit-JR Tolkien
* Simarillion - JR Tolkien
* Pool of Fire - John Christopher (Sequels available haven't bought yet)
* Palindor - Evans DR
* Raising Dragons - Bryan Davis (Christian author, doesn't fit with M O'Briens criteria though)
* Stoneholding - James Sebanc and James Anderson (Catholic author)
And he read Landscapes with Dragons - Michael O'Brien recently, considering how much fantasy he was reading I thought it wise, and then we moved our boundaries
Not Fantasy:
* My Side of the Mountain- Jean Craighead George (not fantasy but I include because this fantasy loving boy actually loved it! (and sequels)
* Biggles books- Captain WE Johns (Airforce bound to be loved by your cadet)
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He will definately LOVE the Ranger's Apprentice Series since he likes the ones you mentioned 
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Check your library for the John Christopher books. Excellent.
When the Tripods Came is a (stand-alone) prequel. Then, in order:
The White Mountains
The City of Gold and Lead
The Pool of Fire
We read the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a read-aloud last year (my dd is almost 12 now) and loved every minute. (Well, dd did not like the poems. Sigh.) A mature 11-yo could read these books (I did, at that age).
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E. Nesbit's books! Especially Five Children and It - how could I forget?!
Edward Eager's books are perfect for the 10-11 year old set. They involve magic as well as fantasy, but not spell-casting. In one book there is a magic creature that takes the children on historic adventures; in another there's a coin that grants exactly half of what the holder wishes for. Very fun. Probably not in your library (check, though), but recently reprinted.
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My 9 yo, almost 10 yo, is enjoying the We Were There History Series, the publisher is Grosset and Dunlap.here is a list of some in the series but you can probably pick them up cheaper on ebay. My guy is reading We Were There at the Alamo, very exciting series for young history buffs.
eta: i see you asked for some military history...
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Thank you, thank you!
I'd forgotten about the Ranger's Apprentice series ... that got rave reviews on this Board but he wasn't interested back then. They sound perfect now! I think I'll get the Ranger's Apprentice Collection (the first 3 books) for his birthday in 10 days. That should hold him for a few days anyway! 
We've read the Nesbit books as read-alouds -- those are marvelous! And the Edward Eager ones (that mimic, sort of, Nesbit's writing) are excellent too.
Erin, I'm going to print out your list and check these out ... they sound great! Thanks so much for taking the time to delve into a 14yo's reading list! 
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Mary G wrote:
Thank you, thank you!
I'd forgotten about the Ranger's Apprentice series ... that got rave reviews on this Board but he wasn't interested back then. They sound perfect now! I think I'll get the Ranger's Apprentice Collection (the first 3 books) for his birthday in 10 days. That should hold him for a few days anyway!
We've read the Nesbit books as read-alouds -- those are marvelous! And the Edward Eager ones (that mimic, sort of, Nesbit's writing) are excellent too.
Erin, I'm going to print out your list and check these out ... they sound great! Thanks so much for taking the time to delve into a 14yo's reading list! |
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I got this exact thing for my ds for Christmas and he has already devoured the first book (he had to fight over it with my dh ) and is almost done with the second.
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Mary
Just wondering what your son thought of the Ranger's Apprentice books?
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Erin ... well both he and I love them! We're waiting on #8 to come from the library ... they are so well written and very addictive !
Thank you so much for reminding me about them. He and I have enjoyed reading them and discussing them ... I read the 1st one as a family read-aloud and the other two are asking for more ....
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I was also wondering whether you found any of the Biggles books?
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Biggles ... qu'est que ce "Biggles"?
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My 11 yo ds just finished the new first book of a new series by Rick Riordan, "The Red Pyramid." We're reading it aloud now as a family. Pretty much along the Percy Jackson line, except Egyptian. He thought it might be even better than Percy, which he LOVED.
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* Inkheart - Cornelia Funke (Macbeths' List says not her later ones)Mmm now I can't find it. |
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Does anyone know where this is? My ds15 is begging to read the sequel and I can't remember why it may have possible issues. Dh is lagging in pre-reading, and I rarely read fantasy if I can help it.
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I finally finished a fantasy post and wanted to add a few titles that I didn't share above.
Bran Habric - Kaleb Nation (and sequels)
Shadow Thief- Alexandra Ardonetto (and sequels)
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If he likes history, the books by de Wohl which tell the stories of the Saints in the form of historical fiction.
I found The Citadel of God (de Wohl) particularly wonderful and it felt rather like fantasy with the spiritual gifts of the Saint.
On fantasy/science fiction the author Anne McCaffrey tells some great stories in her PERN series. My eldest loved Dragonflight around age 11, and it turned a non-reader into a voracious reader. I preferred the Harper Hall series.
Tolkien is ALWAYS good.
Karen Fabian has some fun stories but they may be too old for him at this point. I find the short story collections especially good. She is a Catholic author and goes for humor in her novels.
Heinlein wrote juveniles which are incredibly good science fiction (Have Spacesuit Will Travel comes to mind as does Tunnel In the Sky--both EXCELLENT). Always fast paced, always the main characters are well drawn. My husband tells me that this author sparked more interest in science in young people than any other author ever. Most of the people he went to school with had been influenced by this author to study science. My husband said his characters willingness to do things themselves, to figure out solutions themselves, gave many a youngster the idea that they too could do science themselves.
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Dove wrote:
On fantasy/science fiction the author Anne McCaffrey tells some great stories in her PERN series. My eldest loved Dragonflight around age 11, and it turned a non-reader into a voracious reader. I preferred the Harper Hall series.
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I would suggest pre-reading the Pern books before giving them to an 11 yo. I loved reading this series as an adult but there a few things in them which made me uncomfortable allowing my child to read - when the dragons mate, their riders are also bonded to one another, and it does describe this situation. I think it's primarily in the first one or two books but it's best to read them in order.
MacCaffrey also has several space fantasy series which are good but it's been too long since I read them to recall any problems. I only remember in the Pern books b/c I did want to offer them to my teen a few years ago, started re-reading them and decided to wait.
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McCaffrey is a good story teller. But the books definately have some level of sex, homosexuality, lack of conventional marriage and such. I would recommend pre-reading any of her books before offering them.
I would also say the same for Heinlein and generally speaking most conventional sci-fi/fantasy. The people that push the limits in imagination don't tend to refrain from doing so with the topics in the books such as cloning, marriage, genetic manipulation, cyborgs and pretty much every topic you can think of.
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McCaffrey has less of the undesirables than nearly any program on television and at least her major characters have permanent relationships unlike nearly every sitcom on TV these days. I never had a qualm about letting my teens read the Pern stories.
Heinlein's JUVENILES do not have the sex levels of his adult books. The two titles I mentioned as examples are clean and very supportive of the idea that any kid can learn science and succeed with it and that the individual can do more than what society expects him to be able to do. Quite positive.
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Less than TV doesn't make something good. Certainly each family can decide their comfort level. And a warning to be careful and pre-read does not mean, don't read the books. But for those unfamiliar with sci-fi/fantasy it's a good thing to provide the information that there may be material they consider inappropriate.
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