Recommend a book for a 15yo please

Person_one

Not the Twilight books! They're essentially propaganda for abusive relationships, hide them from her till she's old enough to take them with a huge pinch of salt.

Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is brilliant.

Where does she go to choose books? Browsing the shelves at the library and picking up what you fancy is a really good way for a teenager to find good books (especially ones that are less popular or older) and establish what her personal taste is.

Ladyhawk

Definitely the Discworld series - Mort being my favourite.

I have just read (and thoroughly enjoyed) the Richelle Mead Vampire series set at St Vladimirs (no sex or bad language as far as I remember). She also wrote a succubus series which unsurpringly had a lot of sex in but wasn't graphic as far as I remember.

The Hobbit as it is all the rage

Cry, The beloved country by Alan Paton. It is quite advanced (as in it is an adult book)but we read it as a set book aged about 16. It's about apartheid South Africa

April fools day by Bryce Courtney (I think) - again definitely not teen fiction but eminently readable. I am pretty sure that I was mid teens when I read it. It's about Courtney's son who is a haemophiliac.

It may be a little old fashioned now but I loved the !!!!!! Francis novels as an early teen.

Hope that helps!

VestanPance

A Song of Ice and Fire books are great if she has the slightest bit of interest in fantasy books. The first book is Game of Thrones and if she enjoys that she has a few more of the series to catch up with.

notakid

The Outsiders is a great read for a 15 year old girl!

Great Film as well esp as they now have the directors cut.

If she likes the Hunger Games she could try Unwind and Unwholly, there will be a third book too, brilliant Neal Shusterman.

I am not a Serial Killer Dan Wells.

Divergent Veroncia Roth.

The Uglies

Watership Down

My family and other animals.

Howls moving Castle.

Mrs.W_2

Dunroamin wrote: »

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Pratcett's Discworld is a great series to start at age 15.
I also recommend...

Atremis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Charle Higson's novels are a darn great read!
He's written the young Bond series. And a series of post-apocalyptic novels (The Enemy) set in all the major London landmarks and museums that almost every kid in the SE will immediately recognise and connect with.

Wyre

I love reading and am so trying to encourage it in my kids. For teens, I would thoroughly recommend:

Pratchett and the Discworld.
Derek Landy's Skullduggery Pleasant series (the main protagonist is a teen girl).
Michael Grant's Gone series - quite dark sci-fi
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series - 13 books, the last just out.
The Belgariad and the The Mallorean series by David Eddings

Wow I could go on and on hehe. There are definately some books on this thread I will be checking out!

Ladywhisper

Wyre wrote: »

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series - 13 books, the last just out.
The Belgariad and the The Mallorean series by David Eddings

Was just about to suggest these, about to start the last wheel of time myself.
Also Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Ender's Game by Orson Scott is a bit different, but found it brilliantly written, being made into a movie soon.

Wyre

Ladywhisper wrote: »

Was just about to suggest these, about to start the last wheel of time myself.
Also Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

I couldn't recommend the Wheel of Time enough, I am just so frustrated that getting the last book isn't in my budget right now.

Also anything at all whatsoever by Anne McCaffrey. Does it show I think she is amazing? http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/anne-mccaffrey/

Idiophreak

I used to love Robert Rankin at that age. (in addition to Discworld and LOTR, as above)

lostinrates

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by lani Taylor. There is a second in what is planned as a trilogy, but the first one is beautifully written, unlike much of the teen 'literature' with a fantasy/ scimitar element. It has that good writing and strong story in common with the hunger games IMO.