What next for my Y7 avid reader?

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She’s just finished Brave New World, before that she re-read all the Arthur Ransomes, she’s just starting the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency but after that she’s out of books.

She’s finding lockdown quite anxiety provoking, so I don’t want anything likely to make that worse (so not 1984 or any of the teen angst style novels). She’s read all the children’s classics (Little Women etc).

She likes a story but is happy with non fiction as well, if it’s well written (she loved the Usborne books on politics and economics).

Can anyone recommend anything that might work for her?

Cider With Rosie - my top suggestion if she's not read it, it's lovely
Dorothy L Sayers
The Shipping News
Miss Smillas Feeling For Snow
The Curious Incident
Lorna Doone

Agatha Christie
Isaac Asimov robots stuff
Other vintage sci-fi: Chocky, The Lotus Caves, The Tripods, Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos
Alan Garner, e.g. The Owl Service
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series
Antonia Forest, starting with Autumn Term
I got into Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine at that age, but perhaps a bit dark for right now

Ifigoup, your list is almost exactly what I was about to suggest, apart from Antonia Forest and Ruth Rendell - it’s spooky! I would add When Marnie Was There, Playing Beattie Bow, Keeper of the Isis Light, ( sounds dodgy now but nothing to do with terrorism!), Charlotte Sometimes, Howls Moving Castle, Witch Week, Anne McCaffrey’s Pern books, all of which aI enjoyed at that age.

Penelope Lively?
Beverley Nichols?

Oh, also I Capture the Castle, The Changeover, and Madeleine L’Engle’s Austin family books.

The Greengage Summer - I've just found it in a box and still love it.