Books for mature 12 year old DD

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She is a very talented writer and I would like to get her books that will inspire her. At the moment she's resisting the classics.

What has she enjoyed so far?

Has she read the standard YA stuff like Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner?

What does she like to read? At that age I would have severely resisted my mother's attempts to influence my reading choices.

I am listening to the Alchemyst by Michael Scott on audiobook at the moment and it is very well written young adult fiction. It is part of a six book series.

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Mortal Engines?

Maybe a chat to the librarian at school or your local library would yield extra ideas.

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Honestly she wants me to buy books for her and I usually get it right.
I am looking up the ones suggested so far.

I know you said she’s resisting the classics but what about To Kill a Mockingbird? I read it at that age and loved it.

The Rick Riordan books are a great way to get some classical myths into her. He also manages to weave a really diverse set of characters into the books without it seeming forced. My kids devoured these books at your DDs age.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The series that started it all. Follow the demigod son of Poseidon and his friends on a quest that will have them meeting gods, battling monsters, and taking on the Titans from Greek mythology.

The Kane Chronicles
When the gods of Ancient Egypt are accidentally unleashed into the modern world, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane discover that they are descended from the most powerful magicians, and only they have the power to set things right!

Magnus Chase
A new demigod is born—this time from Norse mythology. Join Magnus Chase, a homeless boy from Boston, on a wild adventure that will have him meeting the gods of Asgard and discovering his true identity.

Trials of Apollo
After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world!

Has she looked at His Dark Materials, David Almond has some good ones like Skellig, Heavens Eyes, Malorie Blackman Noughts and Crosses...what sort of things does she like to read?

Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series is good if your DD likes vampires, werewolves, etc. The first book is City of Bones
“New York is the city that never sleeps — but evil spirits, angels, warlocks, faeries and shadow-hunters don't need much rest anyway. The city is home to Cassandra Clare's young-adult debut novel, a cool, pleasingly dark and spicy urban fantasy called City of Bones."

Any of the Eva Ibbotson books.
She writes for children and adults, but I read "A Countess Below Stairs" (aka "The Secret Princess") which is one of her books aimed at adults when I was 13, and "Journey to the River Sea" - a children's book - in my 30s. Admittedly that was to my daughters but I loved it.
I read "The Star of Kazan" (children's again) for the first time in my 40s to myself and loved it.

Honestly, I can't recommend them enough.

My daughters also love her and, for my 50th birthday, one of the presents they gave me was a paper rose made out of pages from "Journey t t R S" because it was one of their happiest memories of reading time when they were young.

IF she likes cyberpunk type sci-fi, there are William Gibson’s classics
Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Difference Engine, with Bruce Sterling, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties and Pattern Recognition.

Also, you can get Isaac Asimov’s Classic- I, Robot

If she likes US Wild West the classics are Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper and Call of the Wild by Jack London.

Have a look at amightygirl.com. They have got very good suggestions for all genres.