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whats popular with 13yr old girls?

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triplets · 04/03/2011 22:54

She is starting to want to read at bedtime instead of watching tv!! Whats popular for a fairly typical teen. Thanks

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bruffin · 08/04/2011 15:34

DD likes

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot
inventing Elliot by Graham Gardner

Once by Morris Gleizman

ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie · 04/04/2011 21:20

My book-refusing 13 year old has read and enjoyed the following in the last couple of years:

The Georgia Nicholson diaries - but she didn't like Louise R's other ones
The Twilight series
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
The Book Thief
Lord Of The Flies
A couple of Agatha Christies
The Noughts And Crosses series
Agree re Girl Missing - she read that about 3 times in 6 months!

scruffybird · 04/04/2011 21:15

Rose bush + Finding sky + the twilights (wrote by 12 year old dd who is now going up to bed)

ChishAndFips · 31/03/2011 22:50

Agree with JaneTX, Georgia Nicolson's Confessions series, written by Louise Rennison are great for teenage girls. My 2 DDs loved them and laughed for hours and hours over certain passages, over and over again. Now they are older they consider themselves 'too mature' for such things Grin.

triton · 31/03/2011 22:46

Oh yes Flowers in the Attic Grin. Come to think of it I am sure I read quite a few of her books - was she not obsessed with incest?

I used to read Sweet Valley High and Point Horror books - awful!

JaneTX · 31/03/2011 12:32

At thirteen my daughter discovered Louise Rennison, and loved them. Georgia Nicolson character is great - a best friend you'd love to have. Twilight series love affair started then too, and still strong at 15. There's lots of Vampire-y spin offs that many teenage girls enjoy - all that 'dare I kiss him' stuff!
Was remembering the terrible things I read as a teenager - Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews anyone?

goosiegander · 30/03/2011 17:58

One of the most overlooked writers for this age group is Helena Pielichaty. Her books about Simone, another - Accidental Friends and her series about girls that play football are brilliant.

kittykatx · 11/03/2011 13:34

The twilight series is popluar with teen girls nowadays, Jacqueline Wilson books are good as well as addressing subjects such as divorce in a manner appropiate at that age.

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triplets · 07/03/2011 14:25

Only if they have older brothers MrsH75 :o

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triplets · 07/03/2011 14:24

Thank you again, off to Amazon!

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MrsH75 · 07/03/2011 13:36

17 year old boys? Grin

I used to read my mum's Judith Krantz.

titchy · 07/03/2011 13:33

The Gone series by Michael Grant? I am Number Four (film out soon). 12 yo dd loved these.

Themumsnot · 07/03/2011 13:16

Oh yes - v true. Saffy's Angel is ace!

seeker · 07/03/2011 13:09

Oh please give her the Casson family books by Hilary Mackay! They are wonderful. Funny, touching, thoughtful and memorable.

Themumsnot · 07/03/2011 13:06

Louise Rennison - her new one is Withering Tights.
Eva Ibbotson - she writes for a big age range, but for older girls who like old-fashioned romances, A Company of Swans is good (and a few more whose titles temporarily escape me).
Any number of ghastly "dark romance" books in similar vein to Twilight.
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins - a must read for all 13-year-olds IMO. Cannot recommend highly enough.
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.
Loads of fairly undemanding generic teen books by authors called Cathy - Cathy Hopkins, Cathy Cassidy - thinking of changing my name to Cathy to see if it will help me get published.

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triplets · 05/03/2011 23:53

Thank you!

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sammac · 05/03/2011 08:01

Malorie Blackman

madamehooch · 05/03/2011 07:57

'Girl Missing' by Sophie McKenzie.

slartybartfast · 04/03/2011 22:56

twilight series?

lovely bones

any other book about a film - Angus thongs for starters