Re: Book suggestion for 11 year old

Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Wayne Throop wrote:
>> Hm.  Would Brust's Vlad stories be too advanced?  How about Hambly's
>> Darwath trilogy?  (I especially liked The Walls of Air, for some
reason.)
>> Those Who Haunt the Night?  For an interesting hybrid, Wen Spencer's
>> Tinker series.  Maybe Bujold's Sharing Knife (though some *** scenes in
>> a bit more detail than the others, maybe just a tad more than pg13, if
>> that's to be avoided).  Or Butcher's Calderon series; the protagonist
>> starts out young.  Or even his Dresden series.  Or hey, Sanderson's
>> Elantris, or Mistborn[1].
>
>I don't think any of these would be useful in encouraging an 11 year
>old to read more.  But Sanderson's _Alcatraz Versus the Evil 
>Librarians_ might be a good choice.

Well ... given "dragons" and "pirates" ... might McCaffrey's _first_
Dragons
trilogy be appropriate? (As long as you warn him that it doesn't stay that
partly-good later on...)

Saberhagen's Books of Swords are coming to mind also, for some reason. As
is
his Empire of the East trilogy.

Dave
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