suggestions for DDs please?

[TheYuleLogLady]

DD1 (14) likes anything (reading time travellers wife at the mo)

DD2 (12) doesn't read. once read a morpurgo but didn't much like it.

any suggestions please?

My dd1 is 15 and over the last two years has really enjoyed:

The Book Thief
The Lovely Bones
The Handmaid's Tale
All of Jane Austen's (except Mansfield Park, which she hated!)
Madame Bovary
Rebecca
The Road
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations (read this at school)
The Woman In Black
Brideshead Revisited (although she moaned about the Catholicism!)
A Handful Of Dust

Will grab her later and ask what else!

Patrick Ness - Life of never letting go and The Ask and the Answer
Magorian - Just Henry

For a reluctant 12 year old, has she tried the Wimpy Kid books? Fun, quick read. Or teh Louise Rennison books

It's called The Knife Of Never Letting Go and it is bloomin' brilliant - both of my dds refused to read it though! The whole series is great, though the final one goes on a bit.

YY to Louise R for the reluctant 12 year old - they were all my reluctant dd2 read for a while! Oh and then she read the stupidly bad Twilight series - but at least she was reading!

I meant knife. Don't know why I wrote life.

dd1 (14) really liked those two

great thanks

Just asked dd1 and she says that the best thing she has read in the last few years is Rebecca.

got that though. read it at about 13ish i think (share name with evil anti-hero woman) and lots of the others on your fab list. need new for pressie ideas. will try DD2 on the Louise Renisons and patric ness for DD1.

Oh are you usually MrsDeWhatsIt?

Have a look at the Book People - they sometimes have the Louise R's in a box set for v cheapo. Oh and I hope you don't mind rude - because they are, rather!

no - my real name don't mind rude - neither does she.

Aha! Sorry - I thinkt ehre is somebody on here called MrsDeWinter, so I was confused for a while!

DD2 has also read and liked Lord Of The Flies and Animal Farm this year (Animal farm with school and LOTF just because). She still claims to hate reading though!

ooh another one that dd1 loved was Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - and the film is great too. How about getting the book, the DVD and a huge bag of popcorn?!

sounds a fab idea.

Have just replied on your other thread as well - but I think I gave you my best idea here!

For 12 year old, the Philip Reeve books - Mortal Engines, Predators Gold, Darkling Plain etc - are v. good. Just read them myself! Full of adventure but with excellent imagination and characterisation and a very satisfying plot.

Would second the Louise Rennison ones. Very popular with my DD.

DD1 and I loved the Mortal Engines ones. Barbarian-child dd2 didn't. Then again she is weird - she doesn't even like Jaffa Cakes so Cannot Be Trusted.

Oh and if you want chick-crap, dd1 had a little binge on the Shopaholic books before deciding they were stupid.