My DD reads "worthy" books in fits and spurts. Last summer, she conquered Lord of the Flies and The Good Earth among other more age appropriate titles.
She goes weeks at a time re-reading Babysitters Club and Ramona and not wanting to even look at anything new. We were in this rut up until quite recently.
Then her relatives gave her "book money" for Christmas and she bought:
Sabriel
Artemis Fowl
Just So Stories
Life of Pi
Mysterious Benedict Society
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Dragonflight (Anne McCaffery)
and....
Exploring the Quantum - a graduate level physics text which was glossy and purple. (She actually did read the introduction and giggled at "naked quantum" - she also asked her friend's dad who is a university physics prof to help her with it!)
So I guess we're in a non-Babysitter's cycle right now. And thank goodness for used bookstores (I know we should be a library family but for several poor reasons - we are bad at that).
