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Yvettep
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Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 01:14 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

My daughters and I are about to begin the 7th and (I assume) final Harry Potter installment. Although they are looking forward to the remaining movies, they are experiencing a little sadness that this particular literary journey is about to come to an end--and so am I.

Does anyone have any ideas for similar series appropriate for children in the "tween" years (9-12)?

Some of the stuff marketed as "Young Adult" fiction is really not appropriate for their age group, but many of the stuff that is for their age is not as layered and complex as what they've grown used to w/the Potter books.

BTW, here is an interesting blog post about YA writers of color: http://www.racialicious.com/2008/12/08/on-race-and-ya-lit/
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Mochascafe
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Posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 05:38 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Have you tried any of Sharon Drapers Books? They are aimed towards middle school children. The topics are a little heavy but nothing explicit. In fact they are good conversation starters to get teens to open up about the issues that they or their friends maybe facing.

I highly recommend the Tears of a Tiger, Forged By Fire, Darkness Before Dawn trilogy.

Her lastest novel Copper Sun was also a very good read. It was a Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner and a New York Times Best Seller.
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Yvettep
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 03:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thanks, Mochascafe! I'll check those books out!
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:01 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Have you tried the Doctor Doolittle books? They are a little dated but I liked them back in the day.
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:04 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

My daughters and I are about to begin the 7th and (I assume) final Harry Potter installment. Although they are looking forward to the remaining movies, they are experiencing a little sadness that this particular literary journey is about to come to an end--and so am I.

(You have a special relationship with your children.

I had a pair of wonderful parents, God Rest Their Souls, but anything they recommended for me to read went right in the Round File.

They were OLD and hopelessly UNHIP--squaresville. Like, four corners, man!

What do you use? Chinese brainwashing techniques? Bribes? Terror?
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Cynique
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Posted on Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:22 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The "Nancy Drew, Girl Detective" books are still around on library shelves. Ol Nancy was a clever little snoop, kind of a "mini-me" like replica of Jessica Fletcher, the Angela Lansbury character, from the "Murder, she wrote" TV show.

Even way back in the day Nancy was a role model for young girls because she was the peer of her cohorts, the Hardy Boys.
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Yvettep
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Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 08:41 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Chris and Cynique--I just may go back to some of the old classics. I may have to reread them myself first, though. The last time I went to get them something from my childhood I began reading in the store and was shocked at how racist the book was! LOL

Chris, I do have a pretty special relationship with them. I am enjoying it while I can, before they get too old and see me as un-hip.

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