Fiction for girls (young adult)

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What sort of fiction are your young adult girls reading (by which I mean anyhting from 12+)?

What was the next big thing after Twilight?

Dystopian, i.e. Hunger Games etc? See good round up and analysis from Amanda Craig here
Jennifer Donelly, Revolution if she likes historical. Sarah Dessen for light/romance. Siobhan Dowd and Joanne Horniman among my favourite teen writers. Not read Twilight but them I am not actually a teen only doing a Children's Literature MA!

Brilliant, thank you.

my DD (15) really enjoys reading the vampire diaries series of books, she says they are really good and almost never puts them down! she also really likes the house of night series, she started reading both these series at around the end of y8. these would be great if your DD enjoyed twilight/vampire fiction.

Tomorrow when the war began is in a similar vein to the hunger games and that sort of thing. There are loads in the series, it's set in Australia, and opens with some teenage friends going on a camping trip in the bush. While they are there "the enemy" and we never find out just who it is invade and take over, a bit like the film Red Dawn if you've ever seen it, and the teens have to sort themselves out, set themselves up in hiding to survive, and then try to find their families, and fight back.
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes is brilliant, I can still read it again and again, like a lot of hers actually, and I think they made/are making a film of it.
Anything by HM Hoover if you can get hold of them, especially This Time of Darkness and the Morrow duo.
There are some great YA ebooks out there, but a lot of them are only ebooks - if you have a reader, have a look on Amazon, I've picked up loads dirt cheap or free, and some of them have been really good - the first two of a trilogy (and I can't wait for the third to come out) called Destiny Binds and Time something I forgot sigh and one called The Trilobite Affair, and a series called "Scary Mary" and one called "Dead Girl Walking".
If she likes vampires, you could try Queen Betsy, they are all Unded and Un-whatever, and there are lots of them. They have some pretty mild sex scenes in, nothing very graphic, but you might want to have a little check for yourself and decide if they are too much for your tween or not.

Every girl should read little women..

When I were a lass, I read Point Horror.