Can you recommend something for DD14?

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She keeps re-reading Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Skandar, Crookhaven and Rick Riordan's books (Percy Jackson, Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles), Kay's Anatomy and Inventions.

I promised her a couple of new books, so I need to deliver!

Would Michael morpurgo be any good? What about animé books?

I Capture the Castle?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

My ds read it (and the other 4 in the trilogy) over and over when he was 14

The Lockwood & Co series of 5 books - I love them, as my username attests

My DD read Arena 13 series by Joseph Delaney after the Riordan books.

Then enjoyed all sorts of Young Adult Fantasy books - Sarah Maas- books; the powerless trilogy (forgotten the author); Cassandra Clare books

Darren Shan books

Shadow hunters!

there’s loads of them as well .

and a film and tv series.

im also currently re reading them . As im under 40 , so have decided im too a young adult x

Judy Blume. The best novels for teenagers.

Does she like dystopian? The arc of a scythe books (trilogy) or The Hunger Games - I'd say she's the perfect age for them.

Honestly I'd make a day of it and go for coffee/hot chocolate/bubble tea and let her choose some (this may work out expensive!) I just think that browsing is so powerful ❤️

Patrick Ness books quite a range to choose from

Fantasy / horror suggestions
Skulduggery Pleasant
The Belgariad by David Eddings (old but would follow on from Skandar etc)
DS read through Terry Pratchett at that age

Kevin Crowley-Holland’s Arthur Trilogy would follow on from Rick Riordan as would Diana Wynne Jones

Terry Pratchett? The Tiffany Aching books.

And I always recommend Tamora Pierce. Some of her later books are more mature.

My 15 year old likes The Hunger Games, anything by Karen McManus, Benjamin Dean, A Good Girl's Guide to murder. She likes books where people die in a variety of horrible ways 😂. I must introduce her to Stephen King soon.

As she likes Rick Riordan, Roger Lancelyn Green wrote a couple of children's books on Greek Mythology. Rick Riordan wrote an introduction to the first one.

The Alex Rider series is fab. There’s a film and a couple of TV series too.

What about the first book in the Thursday Murder Club?

I think the first one was pretty PG.

Things that are popular with 14 year old girls I work with:
Gone Series by James Dasher
Hunger Games
Powerless
Rick Riordan
Shatter Me series
Inheritance Games
Leigh Bardugo - Grishaverse
Anything by Karen Mcmanus or Holly Jackson
Sue Wallman (like the above thrillers - no swearing)
More popular with boys but I think they are fantastic - Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman and The Enemy Series by Charlie Higson

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (Northern Lights is the first one).

End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas

I've just bought the first box set of Wings of Fire for my Skandar loving 10 year old, reviews said they were suitable for adults too. He's a boy who also likes Beast Quest and is obsessed with dragons though, so may not be her thing.

His Dark Materials is absolutely brilliant, and if she likes HP she is likely to enjoy it.

Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones

If she likes Greek Myths, she could try Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient collection of myths interwoven around the theme of change. I like the recent translation by Stephanie McCarter which also sets it out in episodes, so it feels quite accessible.

Discworld

The Belgariad series.
Tarzan of the Apes

Old but good
Dragonlance series

Mine has just really enjoyed My Sister lives on the Mantlepiece

The Cherub series by Robert Muchamore - loved those as a teen, it’s about teenage spies, they’re really easy to read and there are loooads of them.