What does your tween girl read?

[happybratpack]

I'm trying to buy some books for an 11 yo and wondering what series/titles your girls were reading. She's sensitive about books being "too young" for her...like she's the grand old age of 11 and doesn't want to read about a baby 9 yo.

Thanks!

 

[Sparx]

at that age, i really liked series of unfortunate events. there are 13 books in the series.

 

[clovergirl5]

My dd9 likes June B Jones books, Goosebumps, Harry Potter, Pokemon. She loves mysterys. There are many different tween series of books out there.

 

[HonnyDipp]

My girl is 14, but when she was 11, she LOVED Judy Blume books. Her favorites are "Its Me God, Margret", "Tales of the fourth grade nothing" and "Superfudge"Club. Plus you can never go wrong with a Harry Potter book!

 

[My sister's princess]

At that age I was reading the Dear America books. I LOVED THESE! they also made a series that was world royalty, written in the same style

http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/books/series.htm this has a listing and information on them all

 

[Sparx]

At that age I was reading the Dear America books. I LOVED THESE! they also made a series that was world royalty, written in the same style

http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/books/series.htm this has a listing and information on them all

i'd forgotten about those. i loved these too.

 

[clarabelle]

My DD (11) likes the Percy Jackson Books (kind of a Harry Potter knock-off with Greek Gods)
The Children of the lamp series (brother and sister who find out they are Genies on their 12 Birthday)

For lighter reading she likes a series called Camp Confidential

Harry Potter is great -but I wouldn't buy it without knowing if she has read it already

 

[goofy's friends]

DD 11 loves Sister Grimm (her favorite right now), Series of Unfortunate Events, Humphrey books (but these are a little on the young side she admits), Star Catcher (I think that's the series--with Peter Pan????), and her favorite book of all time (read 3 times) is 21 Balloons. She's an avid reader, hope this helps.

 

[My sister's princess]

What about the box car children series!
Or Sweet Valley (the first ones are for that age I think)
Or The baby sitter's club (they have the babysitter's club little sister series as well, that is for a little younger crowed)


I keep thinking of more, lol sorry I have always loved to read!

 

[cruisnfamily]

My 11 year old niece has read the twilight series 2x and also loves the inkheart series.

 

[Ppufi]

Harry Potter, Peter and the Starcatchers, Dear America, Royal Diaries, Nancy Drew, Baby-Sitter's Club, all of the Little House books, and oh so much more. It's a great age for books.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

My dd also likes the Camp Confidential series, and she's loaned a lot of her books out to her friends, so they seem pretty popular with that age group (6th grade).

She also loved the Twilight series, Vampire Diaries, and the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.

 

[bamagirl@hrt]

My 11 year old daughter is an avid reader (just like her mom ) She has read all of the Harry Potter books multiple times. She really enjoyed the Inkheart trilogy; she read that this summer. As a fan of all things Disney, she loved Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson, and its sequel. Now she is reading the Peter and the Starcatchers books. Her absolute favorite book ever is Song of the Sparrow, which is written in poetic format and is the tale of Camelot.

I know the Twilight books are very popular. I've read them and really enjoyed them. However, I think they are too mature for an 11 year old. The first one, maybe two, are maybe ok. But the last two books deal with more sexual issues. I'm not a prude and I am fully aware that Bella and Edward's relations take place in a marriage, but I think it's too mature for an 11 year old. Just my opinion. I've told her she can begin reading them next year.

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Remy loves Twilight series, Inkheart, Vampire Diares and the Secret Circle (as well as most series by LJ Smith). She loves non fiction history books and science ones about the planets, etc too.

She also enjoys those tween romances but I have to read them first due to some of them being too graphic. I wish I had kept all my old teen romances (they were called Love Stories and Sweet Dreams) which the most of which happened was kissing. Stupid me sold the two book sets on ebay for around 500.00...loved the money four years ago, now I would rather have the books lol.

 

[luvmy3]

In the last year my dd (almost 12) has read the Inkheart series, The Twilight series and right now is reading the last in the Percy Jackson series. She just started it 3 days ago and will be finished tonight, she really really loves those.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

I know the Twilight books are very popular. I've read them and really enjoyed them. However, I think they are too mature for an 11 year old. The first one, maybe two, are maybe ok. But the last two books deal with more sexual issues. I'm not a prude and I am fully aware that Bella and Edward's relations take place in a marriage, but I think it's too mature for an 11 year old. Just my opinion. I've told her she can begin reading them next year.

Even though I was comfortable with my dd reading the books at 11, I wouldn't buy them for someone else's child, as it sounds the OP is doing, without asking a parent first.

 

[TinkerBelle2992]

Try the Clique series by Lisi Harrison. Me and my friends started reading them in seventh or eighth grade, and we still read them when new ones come out. =P There's a bunch of books in the series, there's a summer collection, a dictionary/encyclopedia type of thing, a prequel, and the author just started a spin-off series. They start out when the girls are in seventh grade, and the newest one was the third or fourth where they were in eigth grade.

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

I LOVE and still love, The Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The early ones, when she is in 6th to 8th grade would be great for her to read! The ones where she's in high school you might want to wait awhile before letting her read. I also enjoyed the Baby-sitters Club, The Georgia Nicolson series, and pretty much anything by Meg Cabot!

 

[Ohiodislover]

Try the Clique series by Lisi Harrison. Me and my friends started reading them in seventh or eighth grade, and we still read them when new ones come out. =P There's a bunch of books in the series, there's a summer collection, a dictionary/encyclopedia type of thing, a prequel, and the author just started a spin-off series. They start out when the girls are in seventh grade, and the newest one was the third or fourth where they were in eigth grade.

My daughter (11) read these last year, and LOVED them.

She also read all the Harry Potter several times, and is now starting the Twilight series. She just finished a few of the Edgar Allen Poe poems and short stories. She is in a "the Raven" phase.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

I am 16 right now and when I was 11 I loved..
-Harry Potter that's all I read. I re-read it a bazillion times

But then I have read ..
-The Clique
- The Uglies series by. Scott Westerfeld
-Twilight
- Alice in Wonderland

many others but probably more for 14+ than 11 year olds.