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Christmas report
If y'all remember the Secret Santa thing I posted about a short while ago, where I got two girls, one 13-year-old Twihard (a nickname I use with love: I remember being proud to be IDed as a Durannie, being addicted to Duran Duran at that age!), and one 9-year-old science & Lego-loving girl, I turned the presents in on Monday.
For the Twihard: a copy of Fang Girl (with a signed bookplate supplied by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
helen_keeble! Yes, it arrived! Thank you! :D), an omnibus of the Den of Shadows Quartet, by Cecilia Atwater-Rhodes, Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce, because I loved it as a teen, Garth Nix's Sabriel because ditto (but as an adult, when it came out!), and Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon, in case she likes dark-and-brooding (I enjoyed it; I still keep meaning to pick up the sequels!).
For the science girl: Potato Chip Science: 29 Incredible Experiments
, which comes in a bag the size and shape of a potato-chip bag (filled out with air,e ven, so it really feels like a large bag of chips!) stuffed with a book and items to use in experimenting on potato chips and potato chip bags, which I figure she can probably get her hands on, a Klutz Press book abut building little machines with Legos, Lego Crazy Action Contraptions, that includes the necessary Legos, Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, as Tiffany Aching is the same age as her (might be a little old for her prose-wise, might not; I was reading Lord of the Rings at her age so you can't tell. She doesn't have to like it!), and Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.
Thank you all for the suggestions! I picked and chose partly depending on whether I'd read and liked it, and partly whether or not it was available in paperback at a reasonable price (for the ones that I hadn't read). XD
For the Twihard: a copy of Fang Girl (with a signed bookplate supplied by
helen_keeble! Yes, it arrived! Thank you! :D), an omnibus of the Den of Shadows Quartet, by Cecilia Atwater-Rhodes, Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce, because I loved it as a teen, Garth Nix's Sabriel because ditto (but as an adult, when it came out!), and Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Lexicon, in case she likes dark-and-brooding (I enjoyed it; I still keep meaning to pick up the sequels!).For the science girl: Potato Chip Science: 29 Incredible Experiments
, which comes in a bag the size and shape of a potato-chip bag (filled out with air,e ven, so it really feels like a large bag of chips!) stuffed with a book and items to use in experimenting on potato chips and potato chip bags, which I figure she can probably get her hands on, a Klutz Press book abut building little machines with Legos, Lego Crazy Action Contraptions, that includes the necessary Legos, Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, as Tiffany Aching is the same age as her (might be a little old for her prose-wise, might not; I was reading Lord of the Rings at her age so you can't tell. She doesn't have to like it!), and Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.Thank you all for the suggestions! I picked and chose partly depending on whether I'd read and liked it, and partly whether or not it was available in paperback at a reasonable price (for the ones that I hadn't read). XD