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Originally Posted by dave

My youngest just graduated from college, so I'm a few years removed from knowing anything about a nine year old, but then again, classics are classics, right?
James and the Giant Peach
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Charlotte's Web
Goosebumps
Phantom Tollbooth
Holes


Admittedly, I am unaware of any real books published in the last, I don't know, ten or fifteen years.

Originally Posted by The Poet

If he likes Star Wars, many of the early works of Robert A. Heinlein would likely please him. Here's some suggestions.


Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947 *
Beyond This Horizon, 1948 (initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald)
Space Cadet, 1948 *
Red Planet, 1949 *
Sixth Column, 1949 (initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald) (aka: The Day After Tomorrow)
Farmer in the Sky, 1950 (initially serialized in a condensed version in Boys' Life magazine as "Satellite Scout") (Retro Hugo Award, 1951) *
Between Planets, 1951 *
The Puppet Masters, 1951 (re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990)
The Rolling Stones, 1952 (aka: Space Family Stone) *
Starman Jones, 1953 *
The Star Beast, 1954 *
Tunnel in the Sky, 1955 *
Double Star, 1956—Hugo Award, 1956[2]
Time for the Stars, 1956 *
Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957 *
The Door into Summer, 1957
Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958—Hugo Award nominee, 1959[3] *
Methuselah's Children, 1958 (originally a serialized novella in 1941)
Starship Troopers, 1959—Hugo Award, 1960[4]

Thanks guys!!!!!!!