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I am looking for ideas on books for the Spocklette-and maybe me-to read. She is 10th Grade (15 YO)

Her favorite book is Ender's Game.

We read in tandem-the Narnia series and the Alvin Maker series.

She recently read the First Formic War trilogy. I had read a couple of years ago. She loved both series by Card.

Hunting for other books-She is reading Twilight series (Not happy about that-but what do you do?).

She has "Tunnel in the Sky" (Heinlein) next in her stack-she should like that one.

Card's Women of Genesis series seems a little adult. I want to read it first.

Is Mither Mages series age-appropriate and/or does it get as esoteric as the later Ender books?

Might try the "Shadow" series again-I read them-she tried a couple of years ago-but gave up. This might work as she is now a couple of years older.

Maybe Dune-I think that one might work.

How about Card's "Homecoming"-or is that esoteric?

Spock wrote:Recurring topic.

I am looking for ideas on books for the Spocklette-and maybe me-to read. She is 10th Grade (15 YO)

Her favorite book is Ender's Game.

We read in tandem-the Narnia series and the Alvin Maker series.

She recently read the First Formic War trilogy. I had read a couple of years ago. She loved both series by Card.

Hunting for other books-She is reading Twilight series (Not happy about that-but what do you do?).

She has "Tunnel in the Sky" (Heinlein) next in her stack-she should like that one.

Card's Women of Genesis series seems a little adult. I want to read it first.

Is Mither Mages series age-appropriate and/or does it get as esoteric as the later Ender books?

Might try the "Shadow" series again-I read them-she tried a couple of years ago-but gave up. This might work as she is now a couple of years older.

Maybe Dune-I think that one might work.

How about Card's "Homecoming"-or is that esoteric?

The Mither Mages series is age-appropriate. I've read the first two books and the third is (a long way down on) my to-be-read pile. Not an editorial comment. I typically read books in the order I buy them and I have a considerable backlog. I don't consider the first two books particularly esoteric.

I have trouble suspending disbelief when Card writes near future, particular as it involves politics. I think his writing on these subjects lacks any semblance of verisimilitude. That was my problem with the Shadow series.

Rather than Dune, which I consider a difficult read, I suggest The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. And of course there's my all-time favorite book Lord of Light by Zelazny (not part of the Amber series). The last time I checked, Lord of Light had hundreds of ratings on Amazon, and the number that gave it fewer than five stars was in the single digits. --Bob

Well, count me as one of the few (but I don't do reviews on Amazon) who give LoL bad reviews.

For Zelazny dealing with deities in a way that is much more readable, & one of my favs of all time, go to "Call Me Conrad", aka "This Immortal".

And while I will admit to having read much of the Amber series, I didn't like most of it. Zelazny once referred to it as his "putting his kids through college" series.

Something I would have loved had I run into it at 15 (I loved in when I ran into it later) is Evangeline Walton's retelling of the Welsh Mabinogion. 4 books, some easier reads than others.

Out-of-box wonderful is Patricia Wrightson's series based on Australian aboriginal mythology. I think the Wirrun Trilogy is the series I'm remembering, but its surprisingly hard to pull details out of the internet on this & it turns out she's written lots of books. More for me to read!

More: Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster Trilogy

Octavia Butler's exceedingly weird Xenogenesis Trilogy

Spock -

I recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and the prairie counterpart you recommended to me years ago -- Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson.

Yes, I KNOW they aren't quite like the books on the list but I think they would be a good change of pace. A little harsh about life on the third rock from the sun in the 20thC but good writing in both cases.

Also by Card, but totally different from any of the others:

"Lost Boys." Kind of supernatural horror. And while I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, I loved this one.

Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series?