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The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
I remember starting and enjoying this series of books at around that age.
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Why not Hobbit + Lord of the Rings.
Or - mess with her with Candid, Zadig, and selected short stories.
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Isaac Asimov wrote a series of short stories that will definitely stretch the mind.
When I was 11 I was churning through "Lord of Rings" having finished "The Hobbit" a couple of years earlier. Should make for a good read but does not come under the class of "short story".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Be an absolute bastard and get her hooked on SF, my daughter loved the Heinlein books, started with Friday which has a female central character. They may be a little dated but I think they will still be a fascinating read for a young adult.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Friday huh? Never read but I sure can grok the Heinlein treasures. THX
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I thought I should mention that Friday has some extremely non-KSS scenes in it despite being an excellent read otherwise. I wouldn't recommend it for a 13 year old girl.
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Hmm you could be right about the KSS content, then again I'm betting the information will not be new and IIRC RAH treated that content rather sensitively. I don't think it would detract from the book for a 13 yo as long as she is not a complete snowflake.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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+1 on Heinlein being non-KSS.
I read Heinlein at a tender young age and it warped me 
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I read Heinlein as much as possible but I leave it to others to determine if it warped me.  I wouldn't give a book where the protagonist (Friday) gets gang raped by the bad guys to a 13 year old girl. Call me old fashioned... 
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I'd go with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Great late 19th century writing and story telling. Not modern hacker ghoulishness.
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"The City and the Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke.
Great story, mind stretching and definitely encouraging to existential contemplation!
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Catcher in the Rye? Respectfully, no.
IMO, this is more like it: The Secret Garden - Wikipedia
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I started reading "I Robot" by Isaac Asimov when I was 8. It is a book of short stories and first introduced me to the world of Technology. They are, for the most part, little mysteries, and highly enjoyable.
Yeah, you rite. Go Saints!
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I would recommend the Jack London stories (ie: White Fang, Call of The Wild).
They are great stories for the young and I believe he also wrote quite a few short stories as well.
They also should have been translated into many languages by now.
Catcher in The Rye is really not a story for young lady. This is why it usually read only by more senior high-school students...
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Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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How about A Wrinkle in Time? Age appropriate and easy to read, but with some depth. That's the one that started my life-long love of science fiction.
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I'd suggest:-
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Just So Stories
Cry the Beloved Country (as much for the beautiful English as the story)
Swallows and Amazons
for starters.
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A little lighter reading, well written and entertaining, all my kids enjoyed listening on long drives:
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
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...because you can never have too much schadenfreude in your life...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo
My, so far foolproof, defense against this sort of scum has been to specify as a dropoff location a grimy battered rubbermade box of the sort that gets used to store potting soil, gardening tools, and etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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saddest part is many of the victims thieves feel they've been hard done by.
(and sure as sh*t if this happens too much highly likely the PC idiots will make it illegal.)
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lopati: roaming wrote: highly likely the PC idiots will make it illegal
Yes, they'd probably call it "entrapment" or some such nonsense.
Personally, I believe that anyone who commits (a) trespass with intent to commit a crime, and (b) petty (or grand) theft deserves anything that they get, up to and including a couple of canisters of buckshot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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As long as the cops don't do it, not entrapment.
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I just watched it before coming into work and towards the end some of the guys laugh after the fart spray goes off.
One thing that occurred to me was that it all depends on the package being opened the right way up otherwise the glitter will fall out of it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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OK, so it's not perfect. However, the designers deserve a  for fighting back against such scum.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: One thing that occurred to me was that it all depends on the package being opened the right way up otherwise the glitter will fall out of it.
I think the shape, size, and the slide-off cover discourage opening it any other way -- the top is too wide to grab with one hand.
Mind, I was thinking myself that if it were just tossed into a car, and bounced about on its side while being driven, it would lose a bit of glitter.
I guess "over-engineering" included a rubber seal in the box cover (a tearaway polythene seal would be too likely to "misfire").
I still think he should have plastered the box with official warning and "Danger Will Robinson!" signs, then filled it with caustic soda.
Giving a bit of a scare to people who do such damage to society can't be a bad thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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