Comment from a 16 yr old, trying to address diferences (Score 1) 672
I'm trying to address what the daughter may be like as far as reading. While many of the books listed I havn't read personally about I have heard very highly praised by friends and my dad (who's stash of sci-fi books i'm in the process of raiding).
If your daughter is already reading alot most of the books that have been posted would probably would make a good choice.
I highly reccommend the Ender's Game series by Card to anyone, especially in that age group. It was reccommended to me by my math teacher in 6th grade and I just reread it and read the rest of the series. Definantly a good book.
Heinlein is also another choice, some of the books can be hard to get through if she's not an avid reader (Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind..) I don't recall seeing it posted, but Red Planet is what brought me back to reading after a lapse of a few years. A relativly easy read and quite enjoyable.
Ofcourse Tolkein, the Hobbit series should be required reading in schools. More of a classic than some of what we read. I dont know when I read those, sometime in elementry school. A good read for anyone.
I've seen 1984 popping up quite a bit also. We read that in 9th grade honors english. A good book to read, at some point. It may work well to read it now together and when she gets older perhaps she'll reread it on her own and get even more out of it.
Another author being batted forth is Piers Anthony. While I havn't read any of the more sci-fi oriented stuff by him, I have read all but the last few novels in the Xanth series, most of which i read the summer after 7th grade. I actually loved those books. All dependent on maturity i guess.
If your daughter is already reading alot most of the books that have been posted would probably would make a good choice.
I highly reccommend the Ender's Game series by Card to anyone, especially in that age group. It was reccommended to me by my math teacher in 6th grade and I just reread it and read the rest of the series. Definantly a good book.
Heinlein is also another choice, some of the books can be hard to get through if she's not an avid reader (Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind..) I don't recall seeing it posted, but Red Planet is what brought me back to reading after a lapse of a few years. A relativly easy read and quite enjoyable.
Ofcourse Tolkein, the Hobbit series should be required reading in schools. More of a classic than some of what we read. I dont know when I read those, sometime in elementry school. A good read for anyone.
I've seen 1984 popping up quite a bit also. We read that in 9th grade honors english. A good book to read, at some point. It may work well to read it now together and when she gets older perhaps she'll reread it on her own and get even more out of it.
Another author being batted forth is Piers Anthony. While I havn't read any of the more sci-fi oriented stuff by him, I have read all but the last few novels in the Xanth series, most of which i read the summer after 7th grade. I actually loved those books. All dependent on maturity i guess.
