Book recommendations for a twelve year old

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I have been asked to buy my niece some books for her birthday (I did this last year and they were a hit). The ones I bought last year were on a Time Out 100 best children’s books.

The books I bought last time were The Dark is Rising, How to Train Your Dragon, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Lionboy and A Little Princess.

I had thought of books I really enjoyed like The Chrysalids but perhaps that is too adult? I find twelve quite a difficult age - she basically can read like an adult but I don’t want to give her something too grim or explicit.

If you have any recommendations I would be grateful. Sorry for the multiple posts, the return key isn’t working.

Jackie French has some good historical novels. Lemony snicket if she hasn't already read those.

My DD has just turned 12 today and from her aunt and uncle she requested some of the Disney twisted tales she already had 1 but asked for a couple more. Some of her friends are reading them too.

Murder Most Unladylike series. Northern Lights trilogy. Cogheart series (think trilogy agai). All really good, paceyatorues agd quite gripping!

Pacey stories! No idea how that got so mangled!

Diana Wynne Jones - A Tale of Time City.

Cherub - Robert muchamore, people tend to only give them to boys, but when I taught year 6 lots of girls loved them too.

When hitler stole pink rabbit (series but this is the first)

Sisters of the quantocks hills also called the quantocks quartet.

Sophie mckenzie books are amazing for that age!

She might enjoy the Wrinkle in Time quintet (I think it's a quintet); not sure if you'd think she's too young for the Divergent series (the books are way better than the films) or the Hunger Games. I think I was about that age when a cousin lent me my first Victoria Holt book (Gothic romance) and I was completely hooked. She'd probably also enjoy some of the classics, Little Women, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield etc.

Something by Charlie higson can't recall the name. Wonder/augie and me. Dd enjoyed the geek girl books. She's currently reading one of us is lying and enjoying it. Her absolute recent hit has been the Adrian mole series which she adored.

That’s super, thank you so much.

Skellig and My Name is Mina, Northern Lights, Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Smile/Sisters/Ghosts by Raina Telgemeire these are all graphic novels and she also has re-releases the Babysitters club books in Graphic Novel form. Time Travelling With a Hanster and The 1,000 year old Boy by Ross Welford, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol, any of the Rick Riordan series. Really sorry about the lack of spaces, my phone isn't letting me do them. My iPad wouldn't either so maybe it's a Mumsnet problem.

Northern Lights are always good, otherwise you can either go for classics, the secret garden, the Hobbit, things like that, or more modern stuff like the Hunger games books, divergent series, maze runner.

Or if she's into fantasy stuff, there's a series of books grouped into threes, I think there's about 12 in all which can be read in order but each 3 also stands alone if that makes sense. I started with Beyond the Deepwoods and I still re-read them now, they are beautiful books and definitely aimed at older kids, no sex or graphic violence.

Ooh or Inkheart. It's about a girl whose dad is a writer, but when he reads out loud the words come to life, he accidentally created a whole world with the stereotypical bad guy and she has to go and find him. It's such a good book!