Clean fantasy or dystopian books suitable for 13 yr old please

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She's read Hunger Games, Maze Runner and The Enemy series. Any thing else similar please.

How about the testing trilogy? Some dark themes - no worse than what is in the hunger games though. Also clean - there is a romance angle but it's minor and there is just a bit of kissing once or twice as far as I recall. Certainly nothing heavier than that.

Off the top of my head.

I've just read Marked by Bridget E Baker and really enjoyed it. It's a dystopian setting. There's a tiny bit of romance, but only kissing. This is part of a series, so I don't know whether the sex ramps up in the later books.

For fantasy with no spice, I recommend the Powerless trilogy by Lauren Roberts. Again, there's romance but no action apart from kissing.

If she hasn't already read it, The Giver by Lois Lowry is brilliant. A dystopian classic.

Happy reading!

Robin Hobb assassins apprentice trilogy. Male protagonist, female writer. Particularly good at rounded female characters and no gratuitous boob description :-) and the story is fantastic. There are many other trilogies coming after this one, though worth noting the next sequential one (live ships) is a bit grittier and some sexual violence.

Brandon Sanderson mistborn trilogy. Long, intricate. Male writer, female protagonist. Brilliant world building, twists and turns.

The shadow children first book is 'among the hidden' by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
The 'Children of men' by P. D. James is also good, it's an adult book, but I don't remember any particularly graphic scenes in it, or swearing, but it's been well over twenty years since I read it, so you might want to check...I thought the film was utterly pants, and much less nuanced than the book, so I'd give that a swerve.

The Day of the Triffids is a great book to read at 13

The Gone series by Michael Grant.

There might be some sex in the latter ones - it's a long time since I read them and I can't remember, but I think 13 would be fine.

The Dry by Neal Shusterman and his Arc of A Scythe series.

Mostly more on the fantasy side than dystopian, but...

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
David Eddings' Belgariad.
Garth Nix's Abhorsen books.
LE Modesitt Jr's Recluce saga.
Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen stories.
Alice Broadway's Ink series.

Dystopian:
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
The Midwich Cuckoos
1984
Lord of the Flies
War of the worlds

Fantasy:
The Belgariad series of books.
The Shannara series of books.

Some of the best books I've ever read. The farseer trilogy is EXCELLENT OP

Mortal Engines is really good

All the above plus:

13 is probably old enough for the classic trilogy of dystopian novels; Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm and Huxley's Brave new World. NB both 1984 and Brave New World include some sex.
Also:
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Kafka's The Trial
The Guardians by John Christopher, also The Tripods series by him

Fantasy:
Alan Garner's The Owl Service
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels
Some of John Wyndham's other novels such as Trouble with Lichen and The Chrysalids
CS Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength (overtly Christian, which may or may not be fine for you)
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series (personally I'd stick to the original trilogy, the last three books published many years after the first are nothing like as good)

Tamora Pierce's Lioness and Immortals series (she has others but I was a lot older when they came out).

Agree with Shannara and Eddings.

Magician by Raymond E Feist. I think there is off-screen sex, maybe.

and His Dark Materials

The Menolly Pern books (Dragonsinger, Dragonsong and Dragondrums), plus some of the others like The White Dragon. The first ones - Dragonflight etc - might be a little bit old as yet, but the Menolly ones are fine.

They're science-fantasy.

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My 13 year old really enjoyed the Path of the Ranger series

DD has just read The Gilded Ones and enjoyed it

She also liked the Scythe series and Mortal Engines series

Older (I read when I was a kid): Robert Swindells, Brother in the Land 😭 and the Tripods/White Mountains series mentioned above. Ray Bradbury Martian series is very different, cerebral short stories but she might like it. Robert Heinlein and Asimov also.

Department 19. Mix of fantasy and dystopian with a lot of references from Dracula. It’s vampires but more war based than Twilight-esque

I read s lot of dystopian fiction at that age. John Christopher is good - Empty World, and the Tripods trilogy. John Wyndham too - I see others have recommended them.

Jean Ure's trilogy Plague 99, Come Lucky April (retitled After the Plague I think) and Watchers at the Shrine.

Louise Lawrence is worth looking out for too.

I can second most Brandon Sanderson books. He is a Mormon and so there's no sex and not really any gorey violence. Usually book focus on complex and unique magic systems that you slowly find out more about.

Steelheart, mistborn, tress of the emerald sea, elantris, are good places to start.

Thank you so much everyone. I'll go through the list with Dd (she's not quite 13 yet but is already into older books and dislikes and cringes at any kind of sexually intimate scenes)

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville would be a good shout. His other novels are very much for adults but Railsea (by the same author) might also make a good read for a teen.

Oh yes DD has also enjoyed Iron widow & sequel