Does /lit/ have any recommendations for younger readers?
I want to get my little sister a birthday present, and I'm not sure which series' are the best at the moment
The stuff I read when growing up I don't think would be very interesting to her, that was mostly fantasy like Robert Jordan and Stephen King
I know she liked the Percy Jackson books, and that she has read the Maxiumum Ride series, as well as Room.
Anyone have any recommendations? What have your younger siblings been reading lately and what do they like?
>>7776346
Finnegans Wake.
>>7776346
His Majesty's Dragon/Temeraire depending on your country by Naomi Kovaks.
UnLunDun by China Mieville.
Depends on the age though, how old is she?
>>7776358
She's 13
>>7776346
If she liked percy jackson then I think she'd also like the rangers apprentice and the Pendragon series.
Jonathan Stroud.
>>7776346
His Dark Materials
Shouldn't even be a kids book 2bh
>>7776346
Buy her Heroes of Olympus, it's the follow on.
After that get her to read something which is genuinely good
My girlfriend reccommends His Dark Materials
I'd say Inheritance because i'm a fedora, i don't think it's amazing, i just think it's fun.
>>7776351
This. She'll love it.
The once and future king.
It's got knights.
A love story.
Dragons.
Merlin with his talking owl.
The sword in the stone.
Pellinore,what?
The questing beast.
Bayin.
A unicorn.
A bunch of talking animals.
my favorite serious as a kid was The Squire's Tale. It's well written and based around Chaucer's stories so it's hardly plebeian-tier. There were like 12 books in the serious if I recall, of about 150 pages average length so she may find that too long, I'm not sure what the going attention span rate is of 13 year old girls who don't read anyway. They're also kinda boyish, but they're funny too so, idk friendo.
>>7776419
Treasure Island, Narnia Series
>>7776419
'Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' would be perfect
>>7777777
>>7776419
Wizard of Earthsea, also maybe the other Earthsea books
Maybe The Hobbit
She would probably enjoy the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I know I did at that age, and I also ate up Percy Jackson.
also the Bartimaeus Trilogy
>>7778662
What was it?
>>7776935
I came in this thread to recommend this series. The Once and Future King is GOAT literature for children. It should hold the status Harry Potter somehow attained.
>>7778915
But will the children find the unicorn chapter as funny as I did?
Skulduggery Pleasant.
OP check Madeleine L'Engle and her Wrinkle in Time.
Des she know harry popper already?
>>7776346
This one. The next two in the series are great as well, though the fourth was a bit bleak.
(forgot pic the first time)
>>7776346
>Does /lit/ have any recommendations for younger readers?
Yeah, fuck off to reddit
>>7776346
Narnia, Series of Unfortunate Events, Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Hobbit, Ender's Game.
Not a fan personally, but at that age my sister and brother like/d City of Ember, I Am Number Four, Ranger's Apprentice.
>>7778686
>The Hobbit
>>7776346
The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud would fit perfectly for children that age (considering she liked Percy Jackson), but the protagonist is a boy, so I am not sure.
Get her started on the Cherub series. I started when I was about 12 or 13, its a good read for a teenager.
Basically it is a secret government organisation that uses children as spies and agents but it silly like James bond or other similar books it kind of realistic in the missions they do.
It does not treat the reader like a retard either, it delves into cults, sex, child prostitution, drugs, gangs and murder.
Nothing that will give you nightmares but I always enjoyed them.
>>7782314
Isn't silly* Fuck me I am tired.
>>7782224
Faaaack you.
The Hobbit is a genuinely good look for kids starting to read. Tolkien read it to his own, and it happens to be a gateway book for his other stuff.
>>7782224
Fuck you nigger The Hobbit is great for kids read that shit back in Middle School.
Coraline
Narnia
Someone recommended His Dark Materials, so yeah. It's basically the atheists version of narnia.
Those books about the fedora skeleton by that edgy Irish guy. Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about
Brandon Mull's "Fablehaven" 5 books, kinda like Percy Jackson but more fantasy and less heroes journey.
>>7776346
I enjoyed The Edge Chronicles and books by Garth Nix when I was younger. I don't remember if the writing was any good, I just liked the weird environments they laid out. Very creative and interesting, had a nice atmosphere.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
>>7783551
I did too. The whole bit on identity gave me some footing during puberty, but the termagant trogs thing gave me a pet fetish.
So a win/win, really.
>>7783680
Sure thing, lets enjoy a book from mr we shouldn't teach our children fairy tales. None of his arguments against God are his. I don't mind Christoper Hitchens, he's funny, but Dawkins? naw.
Pendragon is a decent series but it's pretty lengthy
>>7776419
ender's game and a book series about clay dragons coming to life it starts off childish then it gets into some serious shit
>>7783765
the first one's called "the fire within"
>>7783765
Is that the fire within by d'lacey?
>>7783771
yeah shit gets depressing and weird doesn't it
>>7783765
I missed the point intially with Ender's game. I thought that the only real thing that was not simulated was the final battle. But most of the other simulations were real. Which was the point, desensitizing yourself to war to become a more effective strategian.
>>7783780
everything out of battleschool was real dude
>>7783787
Woophs yeah, everything, my bad. I meant everything, not mostly everything.
>>7776419
Lolita
>>7776346
The Golden Compass
>>7776346
Gene Wolfe. good YA fantasy.
>>7784199
You mean The Northern Lights?
>>7784209
No, I mean The Golden Compass you silly yuropoor.
>>7784234
Here in freedomland it's called The Golden Compass. I know you britbongs call it differently, but you're wrong.
Also *soccer
>>7784237
Phillip Pullman is British and he named his novel, The Northern Lights and American publishers changed the name for the American release.
The title given by the author trumps anything else. God you're a pleb, why did your kind come here? go back to /r/books
>>7784244
No one cares what he named it.
America says he's wrong, so he's wrong.
We made the title better, like we do for everything.
Stay jelly while your country gets invaded by the brown people.
>>7784247
America has higher percentages of brown people than any European country.
But I'm Australian and we're 91% white, so go fuck yourself.
>>7784253
Nah m8. We only have to do with the colored and the beaners. But soon lord emporer trump will take care of those who hop borders.
It's Europe that has to deal with the dirty mudslimes.
>>7776351
>I know she liked the Percy Jackson books
Then you have your work cut out for you.
Norwegian Wood
>>7779356
This 2bh, I loved this series.
>>7784345
I think this one's a bit too old for her.
>>7784345
That's not the only wood that is too old for her.
>>7776358
>UnLunDun by China Mieville.
My nigga. Read this as an adult after reading all his adult fiction. Truly underrated author.
>>7782321
This, The Hobbit made me a reader.
slakes limbo
>>7776346
What do you read now op?
>>7782092
Why not? are you retarded? Hope your sister is smarter than you
>>7784347
Have you read Demon Road? I think it has potential.
>>7786519
No, is it a new book in the series or a different series?
Why not a modern 'translation' of Chaucer, or ideally an edition which puts the original and a 'translation' side-by-side? That also goes for Shakespeare.
1984
>>7787025
A different series, the second one should be out soon too, I don't know how he pumps them out so quick
>>7783346
Skulduggery Pleasant you mean
>>7779356
Man, I enjoyed them more than I care to admit.
Will Wilder: The Relic of Perilous Falls
>>7776346
if she's 13, then she should start with the commonly known classics (pleb core). of mice and men, bell jar, farenheit 451, etc.
she isn't a little kid anymore. i mean she should be starting HS soon, right? get her into the classics, mate.
>>ctrl + f valente
>>ctrl + f fairy [1 result]
>>ctrl + f cicrumnavigated
Aight listen up motherfuckers. See this? This five book series provides good role models for girls, while at the same time not bitching at dudes for their penises. Strange characters, plots of almost science fiction level complexity, told through the lens of a little girl whisked off to the five dimensionally adjacent place of fairyland.
These books will give her hints about adult life, while providing a solid moral base and maybe inspire ways to cut through some bullshit social situations.
Very good.
here's some of her adult fiction while i'm recommending her
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_01_15/
>>7782314
pretty degenerate stuff desu
>>7776346
Skulduggery Pleasant
>>7789074
I'll check that one out. Thanks anon.
>>7789074
>plots of almost science fiction level complexity
Fuck off back to r/books, would ya
I remember liking this book. Who else liked it as a kid
>>7776346
Fate/stay night.
Or Clannad.
