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Originally Posted by AintLDS
My daughter, who is 10, is a voracious reader, often reading the same books over and over. She is currently hooked on the Warriors series, Fablehaven series, and the Looking Glass Wars. She's read The Hobbit and The Graveyard Book, among others. I think she's a relatively advanced reader for her age.
I've noticed she's become a fan of dragon books which leads me to my question: are the Dragonriders of Pern books suitable for her? Any sex or excessive violence in there? Are there any in the series that are not worth reading?
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The first three are the best (Dragonflight, Dragonquest and The White Dragon). There are allusions to violence etc. but no descriptive passages or anything. However, the books are reasonably complicated and adult in other ways so she may not take to them at that age? The Harper series based also on Pern but with less dragons are probably more simplistic stories and easier to follow, centre around young people, and quite enjoyable (Dragonsinger, Dragonsong and Dragondrums) so you may want to start her on those.
You might also want to try the Inheritance series - beginning with Eragon which is your standard boy meets dragon, boy rushes off to save the world series.
Mel