Can you recommend something for DD14?

[LongTimeNoNC]

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!

Yeah, consume gallons of water and kill of a few trees instead of visiting a book shop. Ideal

@Raciney Not ideal, and also non-ideally, not everyone has a bookshop within walking / cycling / jogging / scootering / skateboarding distance.

I’m not sure what an average DC is like but neirther of mine could have read Harry Potter in Y3 on their own.

Yes.

If it’s not been mentioned The Catcher in the Rye.

Any of diana wynne jones but Chrestomanci especially (Charmed life).

Mistborn Brandon sanderson
Eragon Christopher paolini
the cruel prince Holly black
phantastes George Macdonald
the king of elflands daughter by Lord dunsany

Robert c I Brien Z for Zachariah. Read it for gcse. It’s also a film now.

Would she be too young for Nancy Mitford?

I was reading Flowers in the Attic series, lace (Shirley Conrad), my mum’s jilly cooper books, Judy Blume and Steven king books at this age. And also John Steinbeck (of mice and men).

I also got really into Virago books at this time too. Lots of different writers and genres.

Hunger Games trilogy? DD12 isn't a big reader but has just read the first one and loved it.

Also The Bartimaeous Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud --there's also a fourth prequel book. They are some of my all time favourites books I still reread as an adult, so underrated and I've never understood why.

Old fashioned crime like Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
She might also like some of the Rosemary Sutcliffe historical books ( try The Eagle of the Ninth) or Geoffrey Treece ( try Cue for Treason) they are old fashioned "older child" mystery type books so nothing explicit but good twisty plots and quite sophisticated language and because they are historical stories they don't date in the same way that contemporary writing of its era has.

City Spies by James Ponti

Same here and I remember Jilly Cooper being passed around as well 😀😀😀😀

And the Bletchley Riddle

My daughter likes Kathleen Glasgow books but she’s not bought a new one out for a couple of years

I can't suggest any titles (at that age i had been reading totally inappropriate horror for years!) but get her down the library to see what takes her fancy without the cost commitment

My mum had no idea what I was reading but she did buy me Judy Blume books. I was also into true life ghosts stuff too. Scarier the better.

What about Tamora pierce - would start with song of the lioness quartet but much more beyond

That’s why I did the range. Wimpy kid books are definitely yr 3 level. HP maybe more like 4-5

Based on what you've said she likes I highly recommend the School for Good and Evil.

It's about two best friends who are taken to a school to learn how to be fairytale heros or villains and they end up in opposite schools. It's great for anyone who loves magic /fantasy. There is some romance but it's smut free and the story mostly focuses on their various classes and adventures.

It's perfect for someone obsessed with harry potter /magic / fantasy.