Books for teenage girls

[stleger]

Help me out at work as my brainis overused! I work in a bookshop and have a brilliant customer with 2 daughters who read nonstop. One is 12, the other is 15. As they have read all the obvious - Harry, Artemis, Wilson, Pratchett... anything not obvious? I loved the Jilly Cooper Emily etc. but this pair seem to like a high body count if possible. Please help me, it's Christmas!

please!

dds aged 16/14 like books by kathy hopkins ..full frontal snogging is the name of one.also mates dates and portabello princesses

Thankyou, they are quite something those titles.

lol they are addicted im looking for some more for xmas

look on ebay the covers are quite tame i havent read them myself though

LOUISE RENNISON-Angus,Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging ,,,,,,,got the author wrong

mates dates etc is cathy hopkins!

I wonder if Angus is a man! I liked Anne of Green Gables until I was about 20.

Judy Blume

Stleger - I'm not sure what comes into your category of 'all the obvious', but:

Have they read Horowitz - Alex Rider series? (It's definitely marketed at boys, but girls who don't read it are missing out.) The first one is called Stormbreaker.
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses and the sequels are stunningly fabulous. A well read teenager I know rates it as his favourite book ever!

Others that might be of interest:
Garth Nix: Sabriel (and sequels)
Eleanor Updale: Montmorency
Philip Pullman: Northern lights (and sequels)
Robert Swindells: Stone cold
Marcus Sedgwick: The dark horse
Michael Morpurgo: Private Peaceful

The series of books about King Arthur by Kevin Crossley-Holland has been a huge hit with DD1.

(if they are into fantasy)

Alan Garner - Elidor, Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Moon of Gomrath
Tamora Pierce - Wild Magic series

If they like Pratchett, they will probably like Robert Rankin (Hot Cross Bunnies of the Apocalpyse) - sort of jokey SF type of books

Agatha Christie - I read loads in mid teens

Philip Pullman -Dark Materials Trilogy, The Ruby in the Smoke series.

Thanks this is all very helpful. The 2 girls have read all the 'big' stuff over the past 5 years - Pullman, Nix, Horowitz etc. So I was trying to remember othe 'good' stuff like Crossley Holland etc. My brother read Agatha Christie. I loved HE Bates! Unfortunately I also loved stuff like Lace, Thorn Birds etc. All the stuff my mother left around, but i'm sure she skipped the saucy bits. Now I just have to do out a list, pass it on, and my customer can go on Amazon instead of buying them through our shop!

When I was that age I loved Paul Zindel (hardly ever seem to see his books in bookshops nowadays, but you can get them on the internet).

What about Douglas Adams? Or Adrian Mole?

I also went through a massive PG Wodehouse stage when I was about 15 (no body count in those though!)

Mine likes Adrian Mole. She also loved Sue Townsends The Queen & I, until the ending confirmed it "was all a dream"!

My own dd is doing adrian mole. I think the prolific readers have had douglas adams. Forgot Paul Zindel! (Why do people expect me to know what their kids have read?)

Another vote for Louise Rennison's series beginning "Angus Thongs and Full frontal Snogging"- especially the first few - seriously funny. Btw - Angus is a CAT!

Stleger - look out for The Ultimate Teen Good Book Guide being published in February. We have the 8-12s Good Book Guide, and it's great!

I need that book!

My dd won't consider anything science fiction-ish. Personally I like Garth Nix. Considering Jane Austen. Think that's what I read at 11. Did Louise Rennison (mm, funny but not sure at 10 as she was), she's up to date on Malorie Blackman, and she's Morpurgoed out from Primary School. Anyone else noticed how naff girls' books look next to boys'?

My DD asks if they've read Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'?

Also loves the Angus, Thongs books - there's been a new one out this year.

SF Said's Varjak Paw and the new one that I can't recall the title of... DD loved them too!

Have you thought of suggesting a poetry anthology? May be a bit off the wall but if they're bookish (and I don't really count DD as 'bookish') It's a new world out there!

the Dark is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper

Another vote for M. Blackman books. 15yr old dd currently reading the da vinci code - not that he needs to sell anymore books. She's really enjoying it . She also likes Ben Elton but they are not suitable. She read Pastmortem before I had chance to . I might of hidden it otherwise.

Have had Curious Incident and is getting the latest Blackman for Christmas. Angus Thong sounds very intersting! Does anyone remember an author called Eric Malpass who wrote gentle stories set somewhere like Gloucester, or have I made him up? Am going to try Cider with Rosie on my customer. I still think unsuitable is the way to go, for the girls at least!