Reading Suggestions for ds - Sci Fi/Fantasy books

[Karri]

13yo ds LOVES to read. His favorites are LOTR, Redwall series, Gregor the Overlander series, and the Chronicles of Narnia - all of which he has read mulitiple times. I'd get him to move onto something new. Any title suggestions?

Thanks,
Karri

[nmoira]

T.A. Barron's Lost Years of Merlin series (starts with Lost Years of Merlin)
Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles (starts with Mortal Engines)
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series (starts with The Lightning Thief)
Nancy Farmer's Sea of Trolls and The Land of Silver Apples
Diana Wynne Jones The Chronicles of Chrestomanci series (starts with Charmed Life)
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Terry Pratchett (Johnny Maxwell series and others)
Douglas Adams
Anne McCaffrey
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (starts with The Book of Three)
T.H. White
H.G. Wells
Jules Verne
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series (first chronologically is Over Sea, Under Stone, the most juvenile and weakest of the series)
The Edge Chronicles (starts with Beyond the Deep Woods)
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (starts with The Amulet of Sarmarkand)

[Angel]

Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
-Dealing with Dragons
-Searching for Dragons
-Calling on Dragons
-Talking to Dragons

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (sp?)

Dragons in our Midst Series by Bryan Davis (I haven't read these but dd13 loves them and has been glued to this series since November)
-Raising Dragons
-The Candlestone
-Circles of Seven
-Tears of a Dragon

The Belgariad by David Eddings-this may need to wait a year. I just previewed for a 16yo friend of mine and another friend let his 14yo read it this year. There are plenty of books in the series, no bad language, no s*x, but a few adult situations.

Hope this helps get him started :)

Angel

[Dot]

and perhaps some of his Discworld series- we like the ones about Tiffany Aching, and the ones with Death(funny and sweet, not gruesome), and also his book called Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.

[sleepy]

something else he might like - The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, etc.)

[Melora in NC]

Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo
The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix

[AngieW in Texas]

seconding many of the series already mentioned above:
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series (starts with The Lightning Thief)
Nancy Farmer's Sea of Trolls and The Land of Silver Apples
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Anne McCaffrey
Isaac Asimov
Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (starts with The Amulet of Sarmarkand)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede

Also recommended:
City of Ember series by DuPrau
Children of the Lamp series by Kerr (HIGHLY RECOMMEND)
Susan Cooper's Boggart series
Lionboy series by Corder
Tripod series by Christopher

[LunaLee]

As far as the Belgariad is concerned, I read it in 7th grade and I don't really recall anything that would be of concern to a 13/14 year old, although it's been a couple of years since I read it last. It was/is one of my all time favorite series. I also enjoyed it's spin off The Malorian series.
Another oldie, but good series is the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Fiest.

[Angel]

I read the Riftwar Saga YEARS ago! That might be a series I need to revisit. I only cautioned about the David Eddings books because you never know. It's best to err on the side of caution ;) I wasn't sure if Karri's ds was on the younger side or older side of 13. I couldn't tell from what he's already read. Do you read Robert Jordan?

Enough hijacking of the thread:)
Angel

[Jenny in Atl]

I did not see anyone mention Garth Nix. I put in a plug for him anytime I can. Keys to the Kingdom and the Abhorsen Trilogy are great. I enjoyed them along with my sci/fi fantasy loving girls.

[LunaLee]

:-) Yeah, I should probably go back and read the series again. I not only read the four in the Riftwar Saga, but most if not all of the spin offs. It was very moving reading the later books because I read the first ones when I was younger and when I went back to the spin off books, he had used the same characters and families and spanned the stories over a couple of generations, but to see the original characters grow old and pass on and their children carry on- it was, like I said very moving.

No, I don't think I've read any Robert Jordan. It seems all my reading these last few years has been all about homeschooling. ;-)

[Denise in NE]

I second (or third?) Susan Cooper's books for fantasy as well as Isaac Asimov for SciFi. Try his Robot and Foundation series.

[5wolfcubs]

I just read all 5 books of The Belgariad aloud to my kids this past fall. It was my favorite series as a teen...and yes, it still is. :) I did cringe a bit as I was reading a few parts...usually when the characters were blushing themselves.

I highly recommend Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief, followed by The Queen of Attolia and The Kind of Attolia. I read The Thief aloud to my family (dh's wanted to be on this one) but not the next two -- felt they were too political and at times too intense for the younger ones.

How about Piers Anthony's Xanth series? Quest for Magic is the first in the series, I think.

[Anne/Ankara]

Well, I haven't read them myself, but my kids liked Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. You might want to check them out. I believe they are suitable for a 13 year old.