Books for 13 year old girl but not too YA!

[ChessieFL]

DD is 13 soon and loves reading. The last couple of years I have successfully found books for her that have become her favourites so I’m under pressure to find her something new! However while she’s a really good reader she doesn’t want to read typically YA books - she doesn’t really feel ready to move on to those yet. If I list some of her favourites does anyone have any ideas I could look at for her? She loves:

Murder Most Unladylike
Ruby Redfort
Lottie Brooks series
Geek Girl series
Matilda
Ballet Shoes

She seems to like funny diary style books about girls around her age who don’t quite fit in so any suggestions in that vein would be good. She also likes mysteries. She’s read a lot of the classics.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Have a look at Tamara pierce they are a bit YA but not too much so if that makes sense

Thanks, will check her out

If she was older i’d say the diary of a crush series.

what about the Princess Diaries series?

Look at The not so uniform life of Holly Mei. It's the first in a trilogy. Second book out soon

There was a thread recently in 'What We're Reading ' asking for book suggestions for a 13 yr old girl. Probably worth a look.

Beth Garrod’s Super Awkward books.

Hetty Feather series by Jacqueline Wilson
Dork Diaries

Totally Lucy series is diary style.
Cathy Cassidy books? They are generally aimed at 10-14.

She will love Smile, Sisters, Guts, Ghosts and Drama all by Raina Telgemeier
Fantastic books.

www.amazon.co.uk/Raina-Telgemeier/e/B001IODNTC/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

13yo did says:

Scarlett & ivy
justice Jones (might be a little young)
Adventures on trains
Lockwood &co
Tayor & rose
Midnight guardians (Ross Montgomery)
Trains to impossible places (adventure not mystery) PG Bell
The uncommeners -Jennifer Bell

The Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett. Start with Wee Free Men.

What about the Chalet School or other boarding school series?

Ooh lots of suggestions, thanks all! I’ll check them out and look at the other thread mentioned.

From book-loving DD (14):
Series of Unfortunate events (Lemony Snicket)
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (Rumer Godden)

Another vote for Scarlett and Ivy if she liked Murder Most Unladylike. Also check out Agetha Oddly and Goth Girl books.

Meg Cabot Avalon series

She has read and enjoyed Scarlett and Ivy!

A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths, there are 3 more in the series beyond that.

Set in a boarding school, the daughter of a judge investigates a murder that happens at the school, snowed in and having to deal with things within the school.

DD is 12 and loves the Lottie Brooks books. I've also got her the Princess Diaries books which are next on her list.

Wonder, by RJ Palaccio.
Goldfish Boy. Sorry, don't remember the author!
Maybe some Agatha Christie's, if she likes mysteries.
The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan O'Dowd.
Middle School series.
Tom Gates series.
Little House on the Prairie series, if she wants to go back in time!