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My almost 13yr old is a voracious reader. We have many mnay novels in our house and she has read so many of them several times.
Last night she was scouring the book shelves for something new to read. She finally settled on "Hound of the Baskervilles' by Sir Arthur Connan Doyle a Shelock Holmes mystery. I would consider this more of an older read. With this choice I realised that she has 'stepped' up into the next reading stage.
This realisation also brought a second one, I don't really have much in the gap between here and adult books. Not that I have many adult novels either. What authors would you recommend for a pre/early teen?
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What about Regina Doman's books, The Shadow of a Bear and Black as Night?
Bethelhem books
There are some other suggestions on that page as well.
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My kids love(d) Jane Eyre at this age (still do), and Holmes, of course!
A few others we love:
Animal Farm
Watership Down
A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield
Over Sea, Under Stone
Ella Minnow Pea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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My dd(16) loved the following at that age:
LOTR
Life of Pi
Golden Compass (and sequels)
Redwall, etc
Poe
Watership Down
20000 leagues under the Sea
Picture of Dorian Grey
Illustrated Man
And lots of fantasy/sci-fi stuff
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Natalia wrote:
What about Regina Doman's books, The Shadow of a Bear and Black as Night?
Bethelhem books
There are some other suggestions on that page as well.
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These are exactly the books that leaped to my mind when I read your post, Erin.
** You also must go to Elizabeth's Book List on 4 Real Learning.com. Click on "Suggestions towards a Curriculum (AKA, the book list)" and see Years 6, 7, and 8! Great!!!! 
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Natalia wrote:
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Natalia
Are these more of a romantic nature? If so I don't think dd is quite interested in that sort of genre yet.
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Believe it or not I didn't even know about this list.  I'm off to check it out.
Dd came to me this morning and asked for any more Sherlock Holmes' books she really enjoyed the one she read last night. Yes she can read a book extremely fast, probably would have taken her under two hours. Very hard to keep up with.
Thanks for the great suggestions thus far. Please keep it up  I believe I may have some of the titles on the shelves, I'm going to pull them off and pile them up.
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Believe it or not I didn't even know about this list. I'm off to check it out.
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Oh, now if I had known that, I would have mentioned that whole list !
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Erin wrote:
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I wouldn't call it romantic. It is more of an adventure book. It is a take on Snow White and Rose Red and it takes place in modern times New York City. It is fast paced and exciting and all within a Catholic context.
Here is the author's website: Regina Doman's website
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My thirteen year old likes Jane Austen.
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My 13 yo dd is currently reading "A Philadelphia Yankee in King James' Court". It's a great apologetics novel about a 17 ol boy who has to defend his faith against his Protestant uncle who is a minister. He may only use the Bible to defend his Faith and the Church.
Father Brown mysteries are also enjoyed here.
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What about the Anne of Green Gables Series and the Emily of New Moon Series, both by L.M. Montgomery? I loved these as a young teen and have re-read them several times.
Also, the science fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis is great...I read this in high schoool. The titles are Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strenth.
I second the reccommendation for a Philadelphia Catholic in King James Court. I read it a few summers ago and really enjoyed it.
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Leonie,
I had wondered about Jane Austen but can't make up my mind whether she would enjoy them yet.
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Maddie,
I have the Fr Brown mysteries and was racking my brain trying to remember whether they were suitable for a 12/13 yr old. Do you think they are?
I have borrowed a friend's copy of A Philadelphia Catholic, I hadn't thought of it for dd yet. Obviously I have to start thinking broader.
Dawn
Dd has just completed the entire Anne books last week. She read a couple back when she was 9, but as she was too young then she didn't enjoy them. She has just gone back now and re-tried them and thoroughly loved them.
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How about Fabiola or otherwise known as "The Chruch of the Catacombs" a re-telling of some of the very well known early church martyrs?
Or Twelve Bright Trumpets, which is a book that has twelve fictional stories set in the Middle Ages.
If your daughter as enjoyed The Sound of Music when she was younger maybe, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, it is always facinating to get the real story behind such popular movies.
I think I got all those three through Emmanuel Books.
I assume she has already tackled LOTR?
Have you got any of the Mary Fabyn Wyndett or Vision books - Mary's books are SO engaging!
Treasury of Catholic Stories and Stories of the Child Jesus are two great books with many smaller stories that she would be sure to enjoy.
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What about some poetry? If she really liked the Anne of Green Gables Books but gulped them down in a week, she could reread them but read the poems cited in the stories along with the stories. Anne's Anthology from Cadron Creek has every poem from the books. There has been discussions on this board about the actual curriculum from Cadron Creek for the Anne books and it is definitely a year long course for high school students. But the poems she might enjoy right now! (Or another anthology...)
Has she read any of Gene Stratton Porter's books - Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost, Laddie...
I adored Alexandre Dumas at that age - The Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo
She might have read Elizabeth George Speare earlier but I reread them still - The Bronze Bow, The Calico Captive, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Erin,
Father Brown's mystery can be a little gruesome (ie. someone jumps out a window, can't remember if he dies or not) but I think they're better than Sherlock Holmes, I confess I have not read them but I kinda go by trust of the author, GK. I know there aren't any immodest conversations, just lots of who done its. My son devoured them at 12 or 13 and still loves to reread. In fact last night, my older three stayed up with their dad to watch "The Detective". Sir Alec Guiness plays Father Brown and what is really cool is Guiness converted to the Faith while filming that movie!
How about E. Nesbit? We loved The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Enchanted Castle.
I second The Calico Captive, my struggling reader picked it up and was so interested he read the whole thing.
I wish I had more time to read...I see myself in my retirement reading all these great books my children now enjoy.
O! My 13 yo daughter LOVES Andrew Lang's Fairy Tale books. There's the Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and maybe 6 others. They are well written. Lang inspired George McDonald, Mcdonald inspired C.S. Lewis....
George McDonald titles we liked were:
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and Curdie
It's so hard keeping children in books!
Goodbye Mr. Chips is another good one...
Lad, a Dog
The Father Finn books:
Tom Playfair
Percy Winn
Harry Dee
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The Father brown stories can be a bit deep - just some of the twists and turns.
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey is a good mystery one for this age group and up.
Also An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden.
My 13 yo also likes R L Stevenson - Catriona, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Rob Roy.
And we have had good success with picking books from several booklists for this age group - DYOCC grades 6-9, Sonlight Years 5-8.
HTH!
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MY 13 yodd loves LOTRs, too. Other favorites are E. Nesbitt books, Dumas, "Zorro: The Curse of Capistrano" and the current, all-consuming favorite, "Phantom of the Opera"
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Oh, my kids are all big Phantom of the Opera fans! In fact, when I came home with 40 red roses that dh gave me for my birthday this weekend, my dd(4) exclaimed "Just like in Phantom!"
We all love the newest version of the movie, with Emmy Rossum as Christine, but dd (16) is the only one of us who has read the book.
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Theresa, isn't that movie great? We're all in major phantom-mode here, too, centered around the Emmy Rossum/Gerald Butler movie and soundtrack. Even though we've seen the Broadway production,and loved it, the movie was even more emotional. Can you believe the "phantom" only had two singing lessons before taking on that role? Dd really loved the book. I think we're about to embark on a Paris Opera Rabbit Trail!
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Once your daughter is 13, you might want to have her join the teen forum and ask all the readers there for suggestions. She just might find a kindred spirit who shares her tastes in good reads!
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Topic: Lit. ideas for 13-16?
