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Books for 14 yr old dd - PLEASE

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Hullygully · 23/09/2012 14:08

She's read everything - I warn you...

Desperate for ideas.

Had some BRILLIANT suggestions for ds, got them all, and he loved them all.

Now it's her turn.

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Hullygully · 28/09/2012 13:41

oo more posts, will cme back

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Like2Chat · 28/09/2012 11:25

My DD has just read 'Gone With The Wind' and absolutely adored it. It's made me read it again and I'm loving it too.

deleted203 · 28/09/2012 11:24

City of Bone
City of Ashes
City of Glass

Far, far superior to the Twilight series. Also try 'Ashes' by Ilsa Brick if she liked Hunger Games.

Themumsnot · 28/09/2012 11:23

DD was looking for something to read yesterday and I gave her The Bell Jar. She's feeling very 'different' and isolated at school atm so it was either a really good idea or a really bad one.

Like2Chat · 28/09/2012 11:21

My DD has just read 'Gone With The Wind' and absolutely adored it. It's made me read it again and I'm loving it too.

madamehooch · 26/09/2012 10:03

Hully - if she likes the Chinese Cinderella series, then I would also recommend 'Revolution is not a Dinner Party' - bizarre title, good book.

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Hullygully · 26/09/2012 09:37

thanks mumsnot, had never heard of john green!

civil, I love all those, but dd won't yet. One of my fave books is Searching For Caleb.

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Themumsnot · 26/09/2012 09:35

Hully - great. My DD is a huge JG fan so I thought your DD might like. She will probably love The Perks of Being a Wallflower too, if she hasn't read it already.

civilfawlty · 26/09/2012 08:36

Margaret Atwood? Carol shields? Anne Tyler?

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Hullygully · 26/09/2012 08:34

A John Green arrived and has been started - it is a hit!

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thewhistler · 25/09/2012 19:52

Last one is Gavin Maxwell.

Travel, how about William Dalrymple's debut, Xanadu. He wrote it when he was about 23. Funny and young.

The precious ramotse series ?

To kill a mocking bird, cry the beloved country, a certain smile, 1984,

Some of those recent memoirs from China?

The periodic table?

Takver · 25/09/2012 16:31

On the animal theme, and in the same vein as the Durrell books (though not funny) has she read King Solomon's Ring / As The Falcon Her Bells / Ring of Bright Water (sorry can't remember authors for any of them though)?

stressedHEmum · 25/09/2012 12:58

DD really liked Ash, also the Kevin and Sadie books.

Sally Lockhart quartet by Phillip Pullman
Time Riders
Kane Chronicles

EldritchCleavage · 25/09/2012 12:16

S. E. Hinton, M.E. Kerr, Judy Blume?

slhilly · 25/09/2012 12:12

Also Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein, for something completely different...

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Hullygully · 25/09/2012 11:16

look

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Hullygully · 25/09/2012 11:16

Coly - just checked on amazon, there are lots of them!

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Colyngbourne · 25/09/2012 10:33

Do you mean there was another Cinderella book out, Hully? You might be thinking of "Ash" by Malinda Yo, which is a re-telling of the story for YA's but with a same-sex romance.

fuzzpig · 25/09/2012 09:23

Great thread! I'm looking for suggestions as I have a DSD who is 14. She reads at a younger level than hully's DD though (more due to emotional maturity than reading age I think), she's read most Jacqueline Wilson, is now reading all the Harry Potters, she also enjoyed the Diamond Brothers series and is planning to read the Hunger Games trilogy as she loved the movie.

I was wondering if anyone (or anyone's teenager) has read the Jodi Picoult book (cowritten with somebody else I believe), Between the Lines? It's classed as a teenage book in the library and looks like a fun story.

brighthair · 25/09/2012 09:13

P.s my Mum gave up and dumped me in the library with an adult library card Grin

brighthair · 25/09/2012 09:12

Did I see she liked horse books?
Jojo moyes - the horse dancer
Does she like any crime stuff? Lyndon Stacey is horse based crime but not scary crime

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Hullygully · 25/09/2012 09:05

I do trawl the charity shops too, it's good to have suggestions from others with dds of same age tho.

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SuperB0F · 25/09/2012 08:38

ooks? I bet there are loads in the charity shops if you don't want to spend much.

SuperB0F · 25/09/2012 08:38

How about the Agatha Raisin comic detective novels? I think the first one is still 99p on kindle. Or is it only 'real' b

Mama1980 · 25/09/2012 08:33

I have a dd like this! Her favourite is 'a little love song' by Michelle magorian.

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