Book Ideas for 13 year old DD please

tyllwyd

My DD liked Fault in our Stars by John Green (but be warned it made her and all her friends cry).
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/17/review-fault-in-our-stars-john-green

lostinrates

tyllwyd wrote: »

My DD liked Fault in our Stars by John Green (but be warned it made her and all her friends cry).
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/17/review-fault-in-our-stars-john-green

It is a really good book.

( sorry for chipping in again lunar, But i get over excited by good new youth literature because there is so much drivelly youth literature)

lostinrates

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

She's ready, but it's not her thing at all.

DH is a LOTR fan and is alone in this liking in our house. Both DD1 and DD2 have tried The Hobbit several times.

Ok, I promise I'll shut up soon.

Thinking about this what about a book not marketed for young people that's a natural leap from what she has been reading? The Night Circus is pretty and magical. There is no big teen angst motivation to keep reading though, and its 'less adult' in content than some of the teen books she's been reading, iirc, so I think its a comfortable recommend. It might lead on well from the better quality of books she is already reading without being too heavy.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Night-Circus-Erin-Morgenstern-ebook/dp/B005AKFXZW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1386235872&sr=1-1&keywords=The+night+circus

pollypenny

lostinrates wrote: »

It is a really good book.

( sorry for chipping in again lunar, But i get over excited by good new youth literature because there is so much drivelly good youth literature)

Spot on! That's why I mentioned the imprint. Keep away from Sweet Valley High tosh!


Oh, how could I have forgotten The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Ebany

I would recommend anything by Tamora Pierce, which I first started reading at that age, and still love. The first set of four about Alanna and then the Immortals series (another set of 4) are my favourites, but there are a lot of others if she finds she enjoys them.

tea_lover

As she likes the Hunger Games she might like The Underland Chronicles, they're by the same author. I got the set of 5 for my niece (11, avid reader) for £9.99 from the Works.

ps - I loved The Book Thief, but it did make me cry!

lostinrates

pollypenny wrote: »

Spot on! That's why I mentioned the imprint. Keep away from Sweet Valley High tosh!


Oh, how could I have forgotten The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Actually, there is a more worrying trend I think in the otherwise wonderful imaginative genre lunar's daughter (and lots of people love) of training helplessness in people, not just women, as is often reported...the 'human girl' is the 'victim' of the 'controlling vampire' ("I control you because I love you") but also something more propounding self hating, harder to define, in the 'toshy' books, humanity it self receives a sort of dismissive treatment that comes from and leads to no where particularly good.


Sigh, the book thief. Excellent.

Pthree

How about S.E.Hinton? I loved her when I was 13/14
The Outsiders is an amzing book (and film) as is Tex and Rumblefish.

Fluff15

I love the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix, still some of my favourite books even though I've had them for ten years.

Patchwork_Girl

If she enjoys classics (Little Women), have you considered the 'Anne' books - Anne of Green Gables and the rest? I read both over and over - still do actually!