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Originally Posted by ltl/fb
Thanks for all the good ideas!!
Would boys like the Twilight series?
Hm. I could get off wayyyyy cheap at Xmas this year by giving him all my sci-fi. Or chunks of it.
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Boys who are able to discuss the Twilight series will be very popular with the girls. I don't know if they'll actually
like the series though.
I discovered the Anne McCafferty Pern universe when I was about that age. I think the Harper Hall Trilogy was supposed to be young adult, whereas the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy were more contemporary adult sci-fi. No graphic sex though, so it should be ok with the parents. I stopped reading Pern books somehwhere in the late 80s, but I noticed from
Wikipedia that the universe is huge now. (Note: This could be the start of the road that Atticus warns about, below.)
I tried to read Eragon, that 1436 talks about below, when it first came out, and I found it to be ridiculously derivative of the McCafferty and Tolkien.
I think I started reading the Madelean L'Engle books around 11 or so.
A Wrinkle in Time isn't a bad thing to have on a shelf.
