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Book recommendations for a 13-year-old?

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summersunshiny · 24/08/2024 11:45

I wasn't sure whether to post this in "Children's Books", but as she's no longer a child, I'm posting here - hope that's ok!

Books that she has read and liked in recent years include, among others:

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
The Northern Lights Series
Sherlock Holmes books
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
I Capture the Castle
The Girl of Ink and Stars series
Books by Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, Sophie McKenzie
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
The Maid
The Cat Who Caught a Killer
They Both Die at the End
To All the Boys I've Loved Before and sequels
The Summer I Turned Pretty and sequels

I would be super grateful for any recommendations, especially of books by contemporary authors!

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Yuja · 24/08/2024 11:47

DD is a little younger but a huge reader - she has recently enjoyed the Hunger Games series and the Geek Girl series. Also Ruby Redfort

sashh · 24/08/2024 11:48

David Eddings? Fantasy world with magic.

Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit · 24/08/2024 11:55

Wow, I'm impressed that your daughter has read so many titles with a high reading age.
My colleague who is a school librarian, secondary, always recommends the cherub series, they are sort of action adventure. They start out with the main character when he is 11 but grow up with him so the books soon cover more adult themes like teenage sexual experimentation. I really like them as the author covers so many realistic issues and some unusual ones. In one book Divine Madness he explains how to resist being groomed, pretty good advice for anyone really!
I myself adore Susan Coopers Dark is Rising series but not many children like them sadly.
Whenever we do a display of dystopia, it's a thing in our English department, the children seem to love The Hunger Games, I know it's not contemporary.
If you go on a website called Brown's books for students, they are our schools stockists, they filter selections by age and genre etc but also by most popular so you will find all the trendy new stuff there!

Morwenscapacioussleeves · 24/08/2024 11:57

Leigh Bardugo - shadow & bone trilogy then Six of crows etc

Assume she's read the rest of Holly Jackson? (Good girls guide to murder)

would agree Geek Girl but wonder if a bit young.

summersunshiny · 24/08/2024 17:52

Thank you so much for the replies - really helpful!

The Cherub series sounds excellent!

She has read the second in AGGGTM series, but found it quite creepy. I felt the third was even creepier, so she decided not to read it.

As it happens, she has read and enjoyed the Dark is Rising series. I agree, they’re great books!

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InfradeadToUltraviolent · 24/08/2024 18:07

The Murder Most Unladylike series is good (1930s boarding school
murder mysteries).: aimed at tweens but 18 year old DD, DH and I all enjoyed them.
On a darker note The Secrets of Drearcliffe Grange by Kim Newman is a cracker. (It's YA and age appropriate, as is its sequel but NB that none of his other books are).

summersunshiny · 25/08/2024 16:03

Thank you!

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PJ04JCW · 25/08/2024 16:34

If she liked Anne, has she read all the sequels? And the Emily trilogy by LMM which I think I prefer?

rentersleaf · 25/08/2024 20:17

What Katy did series
Black beauty
Heidi
Cathy Cassidy books
Princess diaries books

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