What is a good book you recommend for a twelve year old?

Question: What is a good book you recommend for a twelve year old!?
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Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
Carl Hiaasen Hoot and Flush!.

Gary Paulsen
Brian's Saga - Hatchet; Brian's Return; Brian's Winter; The River; and Brian's Hunt!.

True Adventures - How Angel Peterson Got His Name; Caught by the Sea; Guts; Father Water, Mother Woods; and My Life in Dog Years!.

Back in Time - The Cookcamp; Alida's Song; The Quilt; Soldier's Heart; Nightjohn; Sarny; and The Legend of Bass Reeves!.

Tucket Adventures- Mr!. Tucket; Call Me Francis Tucket; Tucket's Ride; Tucket's Gold; Tucket's Home; and Tucket's Travels!.

The World of Adventure - Captive!; Danger on Midnight River; and Escape from Fire Mountain!.

Explore the World of Gary Paulsen - Canoe Days; The Beet Fields; The White Fox Chronicles; The Transall Saga; Dogteam; A Christmas Sonata; The Monument; The Haymeadow; The Night the White Deer Died; and Canyons!.

Tales to Tickle the Funny Bone - Lawn Boy; The Amazing Life of Birds; Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day; The Glass Cafe; The Boy Who Owned the School; and The Schernoff Discoveries!.

John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud (A memoir about the death of his son)

Lois Lowry
The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger

Louis Sachar
Holes, Small Steps, Someday Angeline, Johnny's In the Basement, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, Sixth Grade Secrets, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

Richard Peck
Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder

Kate DiCamillo
Because of Winn Dixie, The Tiger Rising, The Tale of Despereaux, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane!.

Robin Jones Gunn
Christy Miller Series - Summer Promise; A Whisper and a Wish; Yours Forever; Surprise Endings; Island Dreamer; A Heart Full of Hope; True Friends; Starry Night; Seventeen Wishes; A Time to Cherish; Sweet Dreams; and A Promise is Forever!.

Sierra Jensen Series - Only You, Sierra; In Your Dreams; Don't You Wish; Close Your Eyes; Without a Doubt; With This Ring; Open Your Heart; Time Will Tell; Now Picture This; Hold on Tight; Closer Than Ever; and Take My Hand!.

Katie Weldon Series - Peculiar Treasures

Laura Ingalls Wilder - I have a separate page with more titles!. These three are the most often used by teachers!.
Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and Farmer Boy

Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901; Swiss)
Heidi Publication 1880!.

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924; English)
The Secret Garden Publication 1911!.

Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878; English)
Black Beauty - This story is told from the horse's point of view!. Warning: It's a sad story, but there is a happy ending!. Publication 1877!.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888; American)
Eight Cousins - Rose's father has died leaving her an orphan!. She goes to live with her Aunt Plenty and Aunt Rose!. She is very lonely until she makes friends with a servant, Phoebe and then seven cousins, all boys, arrive!. Life will never be the same!. Publication 1875!.

Little Women - This novel about Jo and her three sisters, Meg, Amy, and Beth, is set during the Civil War!. Their father has gone off to fight!. It is based upon the author's life and the lives of her three sisters!. Publication 1868!.

Little Men Publication 1871!.
Jo's Boys Publication 1886!.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817; English)
Pride and Prejudice - The courtship of proud Mr!. Darcy and prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet is complicated by their persistent misunderstanding of each other's actions and feelings!. There are many interesting characters!. Mrs!. Bennet is preoccupied with marrying off her five daughters!. There is an impressive dowager aunt who intimidates everyone except Elizabeth!. The amazingly conceited clergyman rehearses his speeches to young ladies!. The story is set in the 18th century!. Publication 1813!.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942; Canadian)
Anne of Green Gables - Orphaned red head Anne Shirley goes to live with an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island!. Anne is a bookish dreamer who needs to be loved!. Publication 1908!. Sequels include: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Anne of Ingleside!.

Fred Gipson (1908 - 1973; American)
Old Yeller - The old stray dog certainly is ugly and a thieving rascal, but out here on the Texas frontier a dog is a good companion, especially with Dad away on a cattle drive!. Publication 1956!.

Jack London (1876 - 1916; American)
The Call of the Wild - A domesticated dog, Buck, is kidnapped and sold to gold hunters!. To survive he has to learn to listen to the call of the wild and learn the ways of his wolf ancestors!. Eventually, he falls into the ownership of John Thornton, whose life Buck saves twice!. Publication 1903!.

White Fang - A half wolf - half dog is nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men!. Publication 1906!.

The Sea Wolf Publication 1904!.

Esther Forbes (1891 - 1968; American)
Johnny Tremain - Johnny is an apprentice to a silversmith in Boston (not Paul Revere) in the days just prior to the American Revolution!. An accident ends his apprenticeship!. In the days following his accident he meets Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and many other men of history!. Publication 1944!.

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745; Anglo-Irish)
Gulliver's Travels - Lemuel Gulliver travels to a series of very unusual and heretofore unknown lands!. In one place he is a giant compared to the Lilliputians!. In another, he is the size of a mouse compared to the people he finds!. He also finds a floating island and a place where intelligent horses are served by humanoids!. Publication 1726!. This was made into a movie starring Ted Danson!.

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731; English)
Robinson Crusoe - Crusoe finds himself stranded on an uncharted island off the coast of South America for nearly 30 years!. He must find food, shelter, and clothing!. He survives because of his faith in God!. Many years after landing on the island, he saves a man named, Friday, who is about to be eaten by cannibals and Friday becomes Crusoe's faithful servant!. Publication 1719!.

Johann Wyss (1743 - 1848; Swiss)
Swiss Family Robinson - Fritz, Ernest, Jack, Franz, Mother, and Father survive a shipwreck and find themselves stranded on a deserted island near New Guinea!. Being a religious family they offer thanks to God for all that he has provided!. They salvage all that they can from the ship!. They build a tree house for protection from wild animals, find food, make candles from berries, bread from roots, and a canoe from a tree!. They face snakes, wolves, bears, and a lion, but are doing quite well until they discover a way to leave the island!. Who will go!? Who will stay!? This was made into a movie a very long time ago!. Publication 1812!.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894; Scot)
Treasure Island - Young Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper's son, finds a treasure map among the belongings of a dead seaman!. Pirates seek that very map and Jim finds himself in quite a predicament!. On board ship, Jim overhears Long John Silver's plans for mutiny!. This has also been made into a movie!. Publication 1883!.

Kidnapped - Young David Balfour went to visit his uncle after his father's death!. Uncle Ebenezer wants to steal the boy's inheritance and won't stop at murder!. David is soon kidnapped and on board a ship facing a life of slavery!. The story is set in 18th century Europe!. Publication 1886!.

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905; French)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Phineas Fogg tries to make his way around the globe in 80 days in order to win a bet of 20,000 pounds!. He is accompanied on his journey by a servant and they implore all sorts of modes of travel (elephant, sled, balloon, etc!.)!. Publication 1873!.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Professor Aronnax leads an expedition attempting to destroy a giant sea monster!. Their efforts with harpoons are futile and the men find themselves in the water!. Later, they are captured by the enigmatic Captain Nemo on his underwater vessel, the Nautilus!. Publication 1870!. The movie starred a rather young Kirk Douglas!.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936; English)
The Jungle Book - A boy is lost in the jungle of India and adopted by a family of wolves!. Publication 1894!.

Just So Stories - Publication 1902!.

Captains Courageous - Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled rich teenager who considers himself above the manual labor aboard the ship!. Then he falls overboard and his rescued by a fisherman who insists he earn his keep!. Publication 1897!.

Scott O'Dell (1898 - 1989; American)
The Black Pearl - Ramon and his father seek pearls of the coast of Baja, California!. Ramon dreams of finding a valuable black pearl, but he also thinks of the monster of the deep, Manta Diablo!. When he does find a black pearl he is warned that to keep it risks the wrath of the monster!. Publication 1967!.

Island of the Blue Dolphins - This is the true story of an Indian girl, Karana, who spent 18 years alone on an island off the coast of California!. Publication 1960!.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 - 1953; American)
The Yearling - This story is set in the backwoods of Florida in the 1860's!. A twelve year old boy, Jody Baxter, raises an orphaned fawn, but as the animal grows problems arise and he must set it free!. Publication 1939!.

Roger Lancelyn Green (1918 - 1987; English)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by - This is a folktale which began as a ballad during the Middle Ages!. Robin and his band of outlaws hide in Sherwood Forest, stealing from the rich who pass by and giving to the poor in the neighborhood!. Publication 1956!.

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The books Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen by Lauren Myracle are some of my eleven-year-old cousin's favorites!. She also highly enjoyed Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series!. I would also recommend the Artemis Fowl books, Avalon: Quest for Magic, the Series of Unfortunate Events, and Lisi Harrison's Clique books!. If you're a fan of fantasy, try Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain or Brian Jacques' Redwall series!. Alice and Wonderland and The Two Princesses of Bamarre are also old favorites of mine!. I guess it just depends on what kind of thing you like to read!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Here is a list of good books!.

If you like vampires I recommend

The Twilight series ^_^!,
and The Vampirates series!.

And if you like to read about fairies
then you would like to read Fableheaven!.

And Nancy Drew!. Try playing the computer games there really fun too!.

And Spiderwick!.
Warriors, never read but I know someone who has!. And they liked it!.

If you are a fan of Alice in wonderland then you'll like this book!.
The looking glass wars, it's really good!. In this Alice is the princess of wonderland, or something like that!.

Once Upon a Time, Midnight Pearls: The retelling of "The Little Mermaid" by Debbie Viguie!. It's a really good book!.

And The Land of Elyon book 1, 2, & 3!.

And Inkheart, it's pretty good!.

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"The Chronicles of Narnia" is a book series by C!.S!. Lewis!. It will keep you occupied for at least a month!.
All of the "Black Stallion" series by William Farley!.
"Treasure Island"
"Black Beauty"
"Captains Courageous"
"Kidnapped"
"Robinson Crusoe"
That should fill your summer and you can say you've read a bunch of classics!Www@QuestionHome@Com

OK, if you liked the Hardy Boys, you should really like "The Three Investigators"!. Much better, in my opinion, and they are younger than the Hardy Boys (if I remember correctly)!.

My second recommendation is the books from this site:
http://www!.ala!.org/ala/alsc/awardsschola!.!.!.
I have never been disappointed by one of these!. My favorite (so far) is one I first read at the sprightly young age of 45, "Mrs!. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"!. That should give you some idea of how good some of these are - enjoyable by someone of my age, yet written for someone of yours!. The oldest ones are available free online!.

My final recommendation is these:

http://www!.life-after-harry-potter!.com

Included is a list of only the best sorcery fantasy books, grade reading level, a short review of each book along with a brief summary of adult content!. There is also a "Readers' Choice" list of favorite books, and a list of heroine sorcery fantasy books, plus a full review of "The Golden Compass"!.

I hope this helps!.

Jim, http://www!.jimpettis!.com/wheel/Www@QuestionHome@Com

Madeleine L'Engle:
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time
Troubling a Star

Scott O'Dell:
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Black Pearl
Black Star,Bright Dawn
Streams to the River, River to the Sea

If you like the Hardy Boys, you will like Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden!.!.!.there are tons of them!.!.!.!.

Gail Carson Levine:
Ella Enchanted
Ever
Fairest

Check out these websites:

www!.kidsreads!.com
www!.teenreads!.com !.!.!.!.new books, reviews, see what others are reading, enter contest, etcWww@QuestionHome@Com

Any book in the Nancy Drew series!. I am 16 and still love them!. I have almost all of them and they rock!

It also depends on your reading level!. For instance, I have a very high level and when I was 12 I was reading adult books, so really just pick something that intrests you and that you like!. I reccomend:

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Sister Hood of the Traveling Pants

Series of Unfortunate Events

The Outsiders

Star Girl

Hatchet

Where the Red Fern GrowsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Orson Scott Card, 'Ender's Game' is well loved and part of a long serious with an offshoot series if care to continue!. Everyone I've ever recommended this book to has loved it, even my brother who hates reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Twilight Series!.
Uglies Series!.
Secrets of my Hollywood Life Series!.
Clique Series!.
Gossip Girl Series!.
A-list Series!.
Princess Diaries Series!.
Elsewhere
A Great and Terrible Beauty!./Gemma Doyle Series!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Katherine Paterson books, Judy Blume books, C!. S!. LewisWww@QuestionHome@Com

outsiders
the truth about forever
the works of Joan Lowery Nixon
Traveling pants seriesWww@QuestionHome@Com

I really enjoyed books by Lois Duncan when I was 12!. Mary Higgins Clark is fun too!. Mystery/Suspense books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

HARRY POTTER

(And the Among the _____ series!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Back Home by Michelle MagorianWww@QuestionHome@Com

Quiet Strength By Tony DungeeWww@QuestionHome@Com

artemis fowl!.Www@QuestionHome@Com