GTA: CTW isn't going to pave anything... Get this... there are 34 million NDS's in America. Guess how many copies of CTW were sold? 89,000. To put this in perspective, Resident Evil 5 sold just under a million on the Xbox 360 and there are only 17 million machines in the U.S. Soooo... double the audience of the 360 and around 1/10th the unit sales.

I know bookstores always shelve them together, but there is a difference in genre so I'm going to split things up too... Sci-Fi: The Fuzzy Books by H. Beam Piper - Largely forgotten, pre-cursors to the Ewoks of Star Wars fame. Great, easy reads. Douglas Adams - Anything Unfortunately the Sci-Fi series I usually recommend (the Matador books by Steve Perry) always have fairly graphic sex scenes and may not be appropriate for pre-teens. Your mileage may vary. I suggest checking them out yourself and see if you approve. Fantasy: The Belgariad by David Eddings (5 books). The Malloreon is the sequel, but I don't think it's as good. The original Dragonlance trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Tolkien - Anything.