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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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VivaLeBeaver · 23/09/2012 18:33

The Garth nix books, lireal, sabriel, the other one???

Tom sawyer

Terry pratchet?

greenhill · 23/09/2012 18:31

What about classic SF like Isaac Asimov or Ray Bradbury short stories?

Short stories are a good way of introducing your DD to literary fiction, as they are normally easy to digest in one sitting, there should be anthologies of short stories at your local library too.

Do you think she'd be frightened by M R James ghost stories?

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Hullygully · 23/09/2012 18:20

She's read all th eAdrian Mole and the Uglies and all the dystopian novels that were all the rage last year! Bumped etc.

Not keen on Malorie Blackman (don't know why - will suggest she tries again)

She's read all the Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the prairie etc

She wouldn't like Rebecca etc yet - she is intellectually mature but not emotionally, she's got no patience with psychological stuff - part of the problem!

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Takver · 23/09/2012 18:13

Has she read the 'Uglies' series? I've not read it myself but seen it mentioned on here - sounds a bit like a modern version of that 70s film/book where you get zapped at a certain age.

DoverBeach · 23/09/2012 18:09

Malorie Blackman, 'Noughts and Crosses' series.

greenhill · 23/09/2012 18:05

The problem with the earlier Adrian Mole stuff is that your DD won't get the cultural context of a lot of the jokes without an encyclopaedia telling her about the people / places from the 80's. It reads like a period piece IMO.

However for a genuine period piece what about I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? She wrote 101 Dalmations too, but don't let the Disney version put you off. Sometimes older pieces are easier to get, unlike more recent history.

There are a lot of good suggestions here.

Mummycox · 23/09/2012 17:48

A few classic moderns:

Rebecca

Adrian mole

Nancy drew

Little women

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Hullygully · 23/09/2012 17:46

And hse wants things written now, not my stuff that I htink she'd like..(although I know she would)

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Hullygully · 23/09/2012 17:45

Thank you for ideas, she wouldn't read the "adult" stuff yet (although she has read 2 Jane Austen), that's why it's so hard...

DS' taste is wildly different.

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meditrina · 23/09/2012 15:11

Also works of Margaret Drabble?

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath?

The Frost in May trilogy by Anthonia White

Warrior Queens by Anthonia Fraser?

Works of PG Wodehouse?

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin?

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maclover · 23/09/2012 14:53

Patrick Ness

bigTillyMint · 23/09/2012 14:51

Envy Your 14yo DD reads Envy Mine has abandonned reading for FB/YouTube/whatever Sad

RueDeWakening · 23/09/2012 14:49

Any clues about what she likes?

In the meantime, Anne McCaffrey, terry pratchett, rick Riordan, Phillip Pullman, Neil Gaiman?

meditrina · 23/09/2012 14:45

Works by Nancy Mitford and Georgette Heyer?

Some of the Golden Age murders?

The Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) followed immediately by Jane Eyre?

Vanity Fair by Thackeray?

Changing Places and Small World by David Lodge?

And of course everything you got for DS, unless it doesn't match her interests at all.

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