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[Birdy123]

Hi i'm new to this site and was wondering if any1 can recommend a good but challenging book for a younger reader. I am only 13 but am fed up with patronising books. Any help wud be appreciated

[Ryduce]

The Sound and the Fury(just joking).I read the Old Man and the Sea when I was 13,and that might be a good introduction into more adult literature.It's not mega hard,but it might be challenging for a 13 year old.

[genoveva]

Have you read Holes by Louis Sachar or Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?

[Pensive]

Try A Bridge To Terabithia, you will like it. Jane Eyre, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter series will be a good choice too.

If you want a step to mature reading, then you can try Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey (I am reading it now a days) and Mill On The Floss.

[Charles Darnay]

I started Dickens when I was thirteen (Great Expectations and Oliver Twist).

[Virgil]

Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Catcher in the Rye.

[RobinHood3000]

Try Drew Carey's book Dirty Jokes and Beer--just kidding (that'd be a book for starrwriter...). I would try reading some Jack London, novels or short stories (whatever suits your fancy). I particularly like "To Build a Fire."

[Pensive]

Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Catcher in the Rye.

Yep, Huckleberry Finn and the adventures of Tom Sawyer are also great. :D

[bluevictim]

It has been way too long since I was thirteen for me to know what would be especially appropriate for a thirteen year old reader, but my cousin really enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, when she was in her early teens not too long ago. I still enjoy that book, so I guess I'll recommend it.

If you haven't already read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, I'd also highly recommend it. It looks and reads like a children's book, but it's not. Read it every ten years and you'll see what I mean.

[Scheherazade]

Hi Birdy,

You might like to check out this thread, which received many suggestions for a similar request:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12921

Welcome to the Forum! :)

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Haroun and the sea of stories by Salman Rushdie. It reads like a children's book but has more layers than any onion I've ever met. It's the kind of book that you can read at any age - every age - and find something new each time.

[Birdy123]

Thanx 4 all of the help, and thanx for the link Scheherazade, it's really helped me. Now all i need 2 decide is which 1 to read first. :-)