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Reading recommendations for 12 yo

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Fudgeball123 · 15/08/2022 22:24

Our 12 yo has always been a good and avid reader..
She has suddenly announced she finds reading boring 🙄.
Can anyone suggest books which their 13yo's have enjoyed please? I'm not hoping for anything too trashy like today's equivalent of sweet valley high 😉. In the past she has enjoyed the Murder Most Unladylike Series etc..

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clary · 15/08/2022 22:56

I always recommend Agatha Christie - short, clever, surprising and interesting as period pieces eg the days when everyone had maids.

At 12 she is old enough for any literature in a sense; dd was and is a big fan of YA fiction so have a look at that - Malorie Blackman or Rainbow Rowell or Leigh Bardugo - lots of others too, those are just names I recall from dd.

Fudgeball123 · 15/08/2022 23:32

Thankyou Clary she does enjoy malorie Blackman. I did buy her some whsmith young adult recommendations but she didn't really get going with them. Good idea re Agatha Christie, thankyou

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About24 · 16/08/2022 08:52

Robert Muchamore?

Lord Of the Rings? The Hobbit?

Philip Pullman?

My daughter is 14 and loving Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Not really YA but more adult fantasy. No sex.

Fantastic world building and magic systems. I’ve read the triology. It’s fantastic.

OhCrumbsWhereNow · 16/08/2022 12:57

Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series.

The books can be read out of sequence - book 3 is the best one.

peppaminttea · 16/08/2022 21:42

Of the top of my head, DD has enjoyed

A Good Girls Guide to Murder (series) - Holly Jackson

One of us is lying (series) - Karen McManus

Girl, Missing (series) - Sophie McKenzie

peppaminttea · 16/08/2022 21:55

Also

The rosewood chronicles (Series)- Connie Glynn
The Magpie Society (Series) - zoe sugg and Amy McCulloch
I know you did it by Sue wallman
The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

LetItGoToRuin · 17/08/2022 10:17

It's also worth looking in the children's books forum, as similar questions might have been answered there:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/childrens_books

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