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Any book recommendations for 13 year old DD?

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BenWillbondsPants · 01/08/2019 07:34

She loved the Warrior Cat books (obsessed with them), Harry Potter, Maze Runner books, Hunger Games, His Dark Materials etc.

Everything I suggest she's not interested in and there doesn't seem to be much in the library that she's interested in.

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homemadecommunistrussia · 01/08/2019 07:38

Would she be interested in Terry Pratchett?
Neil Gaiman?
Brian Jacques?

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 01/08/2019 07:40

I have just finished the first of the ‘Red Queen’ books which I would imagine she would enjoy.

Divergent is also that kind of thing.

ninja · 01/08/2019 07:49

If she liked the hunger games and maze runner I'd recommend the divergent trilogy and the wool trilogy for a start.

The Malprie Blackman noughts and crosses series maybe,

There were some more my daughter but I'm struggling to find them to remember the names, I'll post them if I do

Patrick Ness is another favourite here

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ninja · 01/08/2019 07:51

Found them they're called once, then, after, now by Morris gleitzman

NoSquirrels · 01/08/2019 07:55

Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

EduCated · 01/08/2019 07:57

Have a look at the Sabriel series by Garth Nix.

SleepyFlump · 01/08/2019 07:59

The Twilight Saga maybe.

Atalune · 01/08/2019 08:02

Totally different but excellent young adult readers

Wonder
A fault in our stars
Second star to the right- Deborah something
Catcher in the Rye
To kill a mocking bird

TooMinty · 01/08/2019 08:03

Harriet the Spy, Sophie's World, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women?

TooMinty · 01/08/2019 08:06

I enjoyed The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers but I can't remember how adult the themes are, maybe you should read them first to check.

BertrandRussell · 01/08/2019 08:09

At 13 she might like some adult books- some chick lit, for example? Has she looked through your books to see if there’s anything she likes the look off? Please not Twilight!!!!!

BertrandRussell · 01/08/2019 08:11

Also, Hilary McKay is brilliant- the Casson family stories in particular.

FusionChefGeoff · 01/08/2019 08:21

Another vote for Terry Pratchett - the Wyrd Sisters are great female role models Smile

hazeyjane · 01/08/2019 08:29

Oh The Warrior Cats....my dd2 is obsessed with those too!!
She has also loved Percy Jackson, Diana Wynne Jones (esp The Game), Susan Cooper (Dark Is Rising), Neil Gaiman, Polar Bear Explorers Club, Place Called Perfect.....

BenWillbondsPants · 01/08/2019 09:45

Lots of fantastic suggestions here thank you so much.
She's so obsessed with the Warrior Cat books it's been hard to persuade her to try anything else recently!
Chick lit is a def no no, not her thing at all.

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hazeyjane · 01/08/2019 09:53

That sounds just like dd2, it's all yellowfang this and greystripe that....the only thing she is more obsessed with is actual cats and Dr Who.

SapatSea · 01/08/2019 09:53

The Windsinger triology by William NIcholson
The Spooks apprentice books by Joseph Delaney
Garth Nix books
The Ingo chronicles by Helen Dunmore
Melvyn Burgess books e.g. Lady: My life as a bitch, Junk etc.

BenWillbondsPants · 01/08/2019 09:59

@hazeyjane Yep, just like DD. Nothing else seems to come close for her!

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hazeyjane · 01/08/2019 10:11

Dd2 still has a few more of the endless bloody series to go, on the one hand I'm trying to get her to read something different as well, on the other hand I love seeing how much she loves it, and remember feeling that passionate about certain books when I was younger.

I might hold off on the Melvyn Burgess for dd2, for a couple of years!

BenWillbondsPants · 01/08/2019 11:05

@hazeyjane DD is exactly the same she doesn't even want to try anything else. It wouldn't be so bad if she didn't spend all her birthday/Christmas money to buy the bloody books because we're running out of room for them (47 at last count). I'm pleased too that she's found something she loves so much but god they're everywhere! She's very protective of them too. There's a little girl at the school I work in who is exactly the same, it's funny how some books just get into you psyche isn't it.

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winterisstillcoming · 01/08/2019 19:07

I still love Alex Ryder the spy series by Alex ryder
John grisham's theodore Boone is great too.

lancslass17 · 01/08/2019 19:24

The fallen series by Lauren kate
Divergent trilogy.

Mortal instruments

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 01/08/2019 19:26

The Midwich Cuckoos or Day of the Triffids

I read The Handmaids Tale at that age, and Flowers in the Attic

DeRigueurMortis · 01/08/2019 19:30

The Underland Chronicles (sometimes known as the Gregor Series) by Suzanne Collins who wrote The Hunger Games.

They are brilliant (better than HG imho).

PixieLumos · 01/08/2019 19:30

I loved Celia Rees at that age - a lot of historical fiction but she’s also done contemporary, fantasy and mild horror which you’re daughter might enjoy.

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