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Your top 10 classic books for an 11 year old girl?
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My daughter is a voracious reader! Can you please give me your top 10 must-reads for an 11 year old girl for her personal reading time? We need to build our library! 🙂
With pleasure! But, before I write a list, can you tell us what kind of books/topics/styles your daughter prefers? Or does she enjoy everything?
Understood Betsy
Anne of Green Gables
The Penderwicks
All Of A Kind Family
Miracle At Maple Hill
Carolina’s Courage
the Grandmother’s Attic series
Matilda
Charlie and the Chocalate Factory
Little House on the Prairie books
The Secret Garden
Heidi
The Borrowers series
Swallows and Amazons series
Narnia books
- Jane of Lantern Hill
- A Little Princess
- Rainbow Garden and everything by Patricia St. John, especially Star of Light, The Tanglewoods’ Secret, Treasures of the Snow and The Secret at Pheasant Cottage
- Little Women (unless you think she’s not up to that yet)
- if you want to try a Jane Austen, Persuasion is my favourite, and it’s shorter and easier than some of the others
- Black Beauty
- Mary Jones and her Bible
- Madeleine Takes Command
- Caddie Woodlawn
And I totally agree with the above suggestions of the Little House books, Anne of Green Gables, the Grandma’s Attic series, Heidi, and Understood Betsy. All great books!
The other posters took a lot of my suggestions. Here’s what I would add:
Katie John series
Horse books by Marguerite Henry (if she hasn’t read them already)
Black Beauty
Strawberry Girl
Thimble Summer
Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
The Wheel on the School
Cricket in Times Square and its sequels
Charlotte’s Web and Trumpet of the Swan (if she hasn’t read them already)
Noel Streatfeild books (Dancing Shoes, Ballet Shoes, etc.)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy! 🙂 The reading lists at Ambleside Online are so good, too.
http://instagram.com/kyriemead shares books her girls are reading. I get a lot of ideas from her.
A Little Princess
Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard
Grandmother’s Attic series of four books
Little House on the Prairie series
Pollyanna
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Heidi
Anne of Green Gables
American Girl historical fiction: Kit, Samantha, and Felicity series. These character movies are good, too. (We don’t care for the other characters, especially the modern girls)
Boxcar Children series, first 19 original books
If you want a series, Trixie Belden — I loved those books as a youngster. Now my nearly 10yo is into them. And my 13yo dyslexic daughter picked one up the other day.
Thimble Summer is one of my all-time favorites. For many years, I read it aloud every summer. *goes to find copy for this summer*
Rascal
Edward Eager “Magic” series (Half Magic, etc.)
Lois Lenksi books – sometimes hard to find, but so worth it!
Danny the Champion of the World – less dark humor than many other Roald Dahl books
If you can get The Armourer’s Daughter by Rosemary Sutcliff, it is worth every penny.
Freddy the Pig books by Walter Brooks
Indian in the Cupboard series
My husband suggests The Hobbit
My youngest daughter suggests Chronicles of Narnia, Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Betsy-Tacy series
All of a Kind Family series
Pippi Longstocking series
I’m sure I’ll think of more, but these come to my mind for now
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