1. You have won an all-expenses-paid trip to the destination of your choice. Paperwork, language, scheduling, and so on will be no barrier. Where would you go?
2. What should no one leave home without?
3. Will you make a mix CD for me? (This is not really a question so much as an actual request. I think you have good taste and I'm interested in what you would pick for me.)
4. What's your favorite memory from your childhood that rarely comes up in conversation?
5. What question do you think I should have asked instead of this one?
As for recommendations, I'm really bad at picking age-appropriate. By 11, I had been turned loose on my dad's SF/fantasy collection with only a very few restrictions.
However, assuming that the 11-year-old was at my maturity and reading level at that age:
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (I didn't like Little Women until I was an adult, but I understood most of Little Men much earlier) Watership Down by Richard Adams (This one I'm least confident about. I don't remember at what age I first read it.)
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Date: 2010-02-11 03:16 am (UTC)2. What should no one leave home without?
3. Will you make a mix CD for me? (This is not really a question so much as an actual request. I think you have good taste and I'm interested in what you would pick for me.)
4. What's your favorite memory from your childhood that rarely comes up in conversation?
5. What question do you think I should have asked instead of this one?
As for recommendations, I'm really bad at picking age-appropriate. By 11, I had been turned loose on my dad's SF/fantasy collection with only a very few restrictions.
However, assuming that the 11-year-old was at my maturity and reading level at that age:
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (I didn't like Little Women until I was an adult, but I understood most of Little Men much earlier)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (This one I'm least confident about. I don't remember at what age I first read it.)