Re: Book suggestion for 11 year old

"Ted Nolan <tednolan>" <ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <481dfc49$0$4077$9a566e8b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> AJ <torturedartist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Hey, i have an 11 year old.  I want to encourage his reading a bit more.
>>The problem is he's more of a sword and dragons guy wheras I was always 
>>more
>>of a ray gun type.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>
> That's about when I read _A Princess of Mars_, which is a bit of both.
>
> There's also Lloyd Alexander's wonderful Prydain books, of course:
>
> The Book of Three
> The Black Cauldron
> The Castle of Llyr
> Taran Wanderer
> The High King
>
> and a bit longer, but again something I read at that age:
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> The Hobbit
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>
> Ted
> -- 


I was thinkning of the Hobbit, but it never appealed to me.  Is that where
I 
should start with that?  Gonna look the rest up see how they look.