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What shall 14 year old DD read next? What grabbed you at that age ?

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Mollscroll · 08/11/2020 07:55

She’s a great reader. Or was till the phone took over. She’s just read Rebecca at my suggestion. She’s done a lot of Agatha Christie, Pride and Prejudice, and a lot of YA stuff. She’d
enjoy Jane Eyre but I think she needs something a bit easier first to reengage her.

I remember really enjoying A Town Like Alice at that age. Any other suggestions ?

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Scout2016 · 08/11/2020 13:23

Bilgewater by Jane Gardem
Bit of a grim story in some ways but Sal by Mick Kitson is great with teenage female central character with guts.
Would she like some of Roddy Doyle? Easy to read without being childish.
Secret life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid is an easy read with a young female central character too.

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 08/11/2020 09:32

If she liked Rebecca what about more Du Maurier? My 13yo really enjoyed My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica In. She also recently liked The Woman In Black, and We Have Always Lived In the Castle.

DesperatelySeekingSunshine · 08/11/2020 09:29

At that age we were all massively in to the Virginia Andrew’s, Flowers in the Attic series of books. This was back in the early 90s
But looking back they all had such big helpings of incest, I’m not entirely sure they were ever very appropriate! Confused

gingerbreadfox · 08/11/2020 09:05

At that age I love Michael Morpurgo, specifically Warhorse.

What about some of the newer YA books such as Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Twilight, Divergent ?

Choccyp1g · 08/11/2020 08:41

Burning Bright by Helen Dunmore. Clever story, teenage protagonist, can't say more for fear of spoilers.
The Greatcoat is another good one of hers.

yikesanotherbooboo · 08/11/2020 08:15

The day of the triffids
Cranford
All creatures great and small
Titus groan
Sherlock Holmes
All Jane Austen

Dickens eg David copper field
The Forsyte Saga
Barchester Towers
Lord Peter Wimsey
Early Jilly Coopers
Dick Francis type stories or eg Elly Griffiths
My DD liked shopoholic books at that age

lighteningmcqueens · 08/11/2020 08:01

Adrian mole?

Vanessashanessajenkins2 · 08/11/2020 08:00

At that age I really loved the His Dark Materials books.
I also loved history so read a lot of Phillipa Gregory.
Has she read Anne Frank's diary? I read it once every few years and come across something new each time.
My father is South Asian so I grew up reading Khaled Hosseini too - the Kite runner, a Thousand Splendid Suns. I did read them around that age and they were just so masterfully written and I learnt a lot about the culture and what sort of country my father grew up in.

Tarahumara · 08/11/2020 07:58

How about:
I Capture the Castle
The Pursuit of Love
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atonement
The Book Thief
The Kite Runner