I am looking for suggestions for my younger sister for Christmas. She wants to find more fantasy books (fairies, elves, etc). I love reading so I’m really excited to find some of these books for her, but most of the ones I remember reading are a bit old for her. She’s 11 years old in early middle school. Her mother is a bit strict so it needs to be clean, free from profanity or sexual content. Some violence is ok. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
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The False Prince, Jennifer Nielsen (the whole series is great)
Sweep, Jonathan Auxier
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, Jennifer Trafton
The School for Good and Evil – totally clean and perfect for that age! It’s a really fun fantasy adventure!
Spiderwick Chronicles – if she loves fairies and elves, these are essential reading for her age! Includes a ton of fairy lore and different mythical creatures. Totally clean as well
The Princess Academy – not exactly fairies and elves, but very fairytale inspired. Totally clean and with a cool message about the importance of education and girls saving themselves. Plus there is a whole series if she likes them!
The Girl Who Could Fly – more sci-fi than fantasy, but great for an 11 year old. About a girl who can fly (shocker) who goes to a special school for children with abilities- but realizes something is off. Totally clean (with some fun “well butter my butt and call me a biscuit” type expressions instead of anything close to swearing)
Heir Apparent – a girl becomes trapped in a fantasy/medieval video game and has to win to escape. She does “die” a couple times, but it’s not graphic because she’s just playing a game. It’s been a while since I read it, but I believe it’s totally clean since I got it from my 5th grade class library.
Amari and the Night Brothers
Cinder
Serafina
https://bookriot.com/best-middle-grade-fantasy-books/
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A re-telling of the Arthur legend through the eyes of the women in the story. Not sure about the language or how “clean” it is since it has been a long time since I read it.
Kiki’s Delivery Service – Eiko Kadono
The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Tea Dragon Society (graphic novel) – Kay O’Neill
Aquamarine – Alice Hoffman
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
It’s the first book in a series and it was my absolute favorite at the same age.
The lion the witch and the wardrobe series.
The wizard of Oz series. I loved these as a kid.
Both of these might be a tiny bit young for her but I can’t really remember. There’s another book on the tip of my tongue and I’ll come back if I remember it.
ETA: the wrinkle in time series. The next few books have Biblical references (like there’s one where the characters meet Noah right before the flood). I don’t think the series aged well as an adult but a kid would still like them. There’s unicorns.