Reader's Advisory - Fantasy for Upper Elementary Students

Thick fantasy books for precocious female 5th grade reader (something other than Harry Potter):

• So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane
• Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
• Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Wren to the Rescue by Sherwood Smith
• Dragon's Milk by Susan Fletcher
  

Reader's Advisory - "Twi-like" Books

Twilight Readalikes

• Teenage vampires
• First loves
• Teenage boy/girl relations
• Paranormal romances

READALIKES:
Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Jinx by Meg Cabot
Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Chibi Vampire (manga series) by Yuna Kagesaki
Vampire Knight (manga series) by Matsuri Hino

Reader's Advisory - Sarah Dessen

• Teenage girls
• Teenage boy/girl relations
• Self-discovery
• Guilt
• Realistic fiction
  

READALIKES:
The boyfriend list: (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver) by E. Lockhart
Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements
This is all: the pillow book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers
Amazing Grace by Megan Shull
Girl of the Moment by Lizabeth Zindel

Reader's Advisory - Jane Porter

• Single mothers
• Happiness in women
• Divorced women
• Women -- Friendship
• Middle-aged women
• Women -- Aging
• Men/women relations
• Sexuality
• Motherhood
• Love stories

READALIKES:
Hot Flash Club Chills Out by Nancy Thayer
The Botox Diaries by Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger
The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Would I Lie to You? by Sheila Norton
Flying Changes by Sara Gruen

Reader's Advisory - Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• Social control
• Aversion therapy
• Dystopias
• Crime
• Criminals, Men
• Futurism
• Science fiction, English

READALIKES:
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Children of Men by P.D. James
Against Gravity by Gary Gibson
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Neuromancer by William Gibson