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Old 11-21-2013, 07:05 PM   #31
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I'd also suggest Andre Norton. If you're in the US, quite a bit of her older work is in the public domain. Some of her later books have themes that might be a little more mature than a 6 yo would appreciate, but I don't think any more mature than some of Heinlein's juveniles.
I would say that most of her books are aimed at teenagers and above. She had a few books for 8 to 10 year old children that were science fiction ("Day of the Ness" and "Outside"), but those aren't space adventures. They're also getting hard to find.
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Old 11-21-2013, 09:24 PM   #32
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The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
9 year old female protagonist.
Any of the Discworld children's books are entertaining for adults as well IIRC, and the rest are suitable for children again IIRC.

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I would say that most of her books are aimed at teenagers and above. She had a few books for 8 to 10 year old children that were science fiction ("Day of the Ness" and "Outside"), but those aren't space adventures. They're also getting hard to find.

The Star Ka'at series was pretty good. It had both a boy and a girl main characters and alien "cats". The series did lead to space and other planets and is intended for younger readers.
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Certainly. You know, the Honor/Nimitz stuff had me wondering if 'David Weber' might be a pseudonym for a female writer. He really seemed to capture the sort of relationship my cousin has with her cats.
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Yes. Baen sell them. Series of (if memory serves me right) 4 collections of short stories.
I don't know if they are still up but there used to be cd iso files of the baen CD's and the Tezley books were among them. They used to be among the free books in Baen's free library as well I believe.
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The Star Ka'at series was pretty good. It had both a boy and a girl main characters and alien "cats". The series did lead to space and other planets and is intended for younger readers.
I completely forgot about those (haven't read them yet). So, Andre Norton goes back on the list, and I have to apologize to @cromag.
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I completely forgot about those (haven't read them yet). So, Andre Norton goes back on the list, and I have to apologize to @cromag.
Well, thanks ...


Six is probably a little too young (not by much, and they do grow fast!) but there are quite a few Tom Swift stories available here in the Mobileread library. I think I read my first when I was eight.

Alan E. Nourse's Star Surgeon is also probably only a year or two away for her. It's in the Public Domain (here in the States) and available at project Gutenberg. Or, you could get the audiobook from Librivox -- she might be ready to listen to it on car trips, etc.
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