Book recommendations for a 13 year old girl please??

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She has done all the Twilight type books and I want to get her a few good books for Christmas. She would read anything really - any ideas for something challenging?

13 girl - has she read the Rick Riordans - v funny -Otter, my ds who seems otherwise to be yours -makes an exception to loathing fantasy for these. My DS currently enjoying, to my surprise, Lord of the Flies and also the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

I think Susan Cooper - the Dark is Rising series, and Jill Paton Walsh's Goldengrove. Agree all the Siobahn Dowds - tragic she died. Bog Child also v good, and if you think she needs something a bit younger, then the London Eye Mystery.

Tess - ok but a bit long, The Woodlanders shorter and weepy ending.

On the Alan Garner theme, The Owl Service brilliant - a bit dated but v much about teen angst, boy and girl.

How about A tale of two cities - gripping story and less cariacature than the normal Dickens.

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

OP, what about the classics - Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys, with Uncle Tom's Cabin as the background, Rumer Godden: the Greengage Summer, if she likes school stories, the Antonia Forests (see separate threads...) ?

Otter, glad that there's another Sheldon fixated family around. DS now knocks on door three times saying Mummy...Much the funniest thing we watched together for ages. I think Sheldon's mother deserves every gong going. The way she got him to return to LA by saying he would have to teach creationists made me lol.

Jane Eyre might be easier going than Hardy.

Otter: I have a 12yo bookworm DS.
Around 13 I expect to turn him loose on The Star Wars Novels, also The Dragon Riders of Pern series. He still dives happily into Artemis Fowl, Wimpy Kid books, Asterix and Anthony Horowitz anything.

The school have sent him home recently with books by John Grisham, Robert Muchamore (thrillers, but ok I think) and the Mark Haddon hit: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time... last one I read 6 months ago & thought too mature for him, but cat out of the bag, and all that. I'm sure he's not mature enough to really get the most out of it. He's also enjoying Diana Wynne Jones & probably read for lots more sci-fi (Douglas Adams, Asimov, Ursula LeGuin).

You lad is also old enough, I would have thought, for The Book Thief.

I actually have a HUGE long list of ideas of things he could read (for example: Robert Westall, Warrior Cats, James Herriott (DS loves, lots of rude words!!), Sherlock Holmes), but prefer to let him find his own, mostly.

For the "Twilight" fan you could try the "Fallen" sequence by Lauren Kate. My non-reading 13yr old boy jumped straight from "Harry Potter" to the "Sharpe" books by Bernard Cornwell after watching the series on TV, then back to Terry Pratchett and fantasy "...anything with a dragon on it, Mum..."

Ragged, re. the Pern books, it was recently pointed out to me on another thread that the Dragonsong trilogy was specifically written for younger readers - so maybe a good place to start (9 y/o dd read and loved them, though she is totally fantasy/dragon mad as a result of Eragon, so not surprising it was a hit)

Oooh ooh! I have just been buying novels for a 13 year old, so it's on my mind.

Definitely the Robin McKinley books The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. Beauty is nice too but not so heroic. She has also written a great vampire book - Sunshine - but there is a bit of sex in it so you may want to read it first. Jane Eyre is great for 13 year olds (esp if she likes Twilight). A must read is The Changeover by Margaret Mahy - all about becoming a WOMAN with some supernatural aspects. A really beautiful book.

Can I just say thanks to all the ideas on here, am in the same situation for my 13yr old niece! Of course I might have to read them all first myself, teenage fiction is so much richer these days.

But I still have to put up a vote for Jane Eyre which I first read at about 11 and still read now.

I would suggest "Holes" by Louis Sachar for both boys and girls of that age. It was made into a film with Shia LeBoeuf (sp?) in it, a few years ago.