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13 girl - no romance

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Coffeeteacoffeetea · 16/11/2020 13:58

Help please
My dd just turned 13 loves reading and I always get her some book series for Christmas. I have no ideas this time. She's currently reading Lord of Rings and enjoying it. Also loved Hunger Games, Dark Materials, Erogon dragon series....loads more can't think of right now. So sci fi type books probably her favourite but also loves Katherine Randall.

She read the first book of divergent series (Veronica Roth), but stopped the second one because of "romance", she's just not interested and obviously puts her off.

Anyone any ideas please?

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thereplycamefromanchorage · 16/11/2020 16:52

Check out Rebecca Stead - not fantasy but really well written about that age. When you reach me has a time slip/time travel theme which might appeal if your daughter likes fantasy, but her other books are all great too and very age appropriate.

Penville · 16/11/2020 16:46

Magician by Raymond E Feist (plus Silverthorn and Darkness at Sethanon if you want to gift a complete trilogy) - classic fantasy of the LOTR variety, one of my favourite fantasy books at her age and minimal romance.

Avoid anything by Sarah J Maas - she’s very popular and writes great teen fantasy but they’re definitely heavy on the romance!

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