Book Ideas for 13 year old DD please

Dunroamin

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Yes, you are very similar! She's read those and loved them too.

We have the Book Thief on our family bookcase. And we have the John Green book that was mentioned too so I'll suggest those next.

To another poster - she has the Anne books and enjoyed them too.

I'm going to look up all the suggestions on Amazon. So thank you and let me know if you think of anything else.

If she enjoyed the Anne books, she might also like the Emily books by the same author (Emily of New Moon) is the first - personally, I preferred them.

What about Alan Garner?

Lunar_Eclipse

violetblue wrote: »

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials? Has she seen the film of The Golden Compass? The books are so much better.

She has seen the film and we have the book series but she hasn't been drawn in. (I have a husband that reads a lot too and test reads anything with a slightly contentious reputation as that trilogy did a few years back when we bought it. He also reads series alongside her, partly for his own enjoyment, partly to read current hit literature and partly for shared bonding I think.)

I think she loves adventurous thrillers, ideally with a teenage romantic element.

I will look up Garth Nix; she enjoyed the Wind on Fire trilogy. She does seem to read a lot ...

lostinrates

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Yes, you are very similar! She's read those and loved them too.

We have the Book Thief on our family bookcase. And we have the John Green book that was mentioned too so I'll suggest those next.

To another poster - she has the Anne books and enjoyed them too.

I'm going to look up all the suggestions on Amazon. So thank you and let me know if you think of anything else.

If she liked The Anne L.M. Montgomery books, what about the lesser known Emily trilogy? I actually prefer them:o.

lostinrates

Dunroamin wrote: »

If she enjoyed the Anne books, she might also like the Emily books by the same author (Emily of New Moon) is the first - personally, I preferred them.

What about Alan Garner?

Omg, dunromin, how funny.,......,




I think we should swap book lists :rotfl:

lostinrates

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

I agree and is exactly why my husband dislikes the Twilight trilogy so much. He (only) watched the first film with me and felt quite strongly that Bella, the main female character is an incredibly poor role model for girls, most of whom are at a very influential age. If you knew my incredibly easy going husband, this speaks volumes, because he doesn't feel strongly about much at all.

Great ideas, thank you everyone. Keep them coming and chipping in as you wish.

Actually, my main problem with them is the spawning of far, far worse in the genre that has spouted in its wake. A one of example of this is...a one of example' a flooding a market of it becomes an established example of acceptability.


On the plus side, like Harry potter, the imagination was ok, the yarn was food and it got young people reading, just.........not always good stuff. I have read fair few of the pappy ones in my quest for good stuff and despaired.

Lunar_Eclipse

Dunroamin wrote: »

Anyway, would she feel the same about the Narnia books?

Not sure.

We read them aloud to the kids when they were younger; I don't think they would appeal to her now. She tends to choose faster paced books which have you on the edge of your seat, not necessarily great literature. She will happily sit and read a book on WW1 or her Geography text book though.

Lunar_Eclipse

Lostinrates, I hear you.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan. I can't understand why so many adults were/are drawn to it. I'm saddened in a way that it had the success that it did; JK Rowling did a fantastic job in getting kids reading, but the fact that it appeals to the masses, says it all in terms of average writing. And that awful actor who played the main character .... he's set up for life financially, but couldn't even act when they started out!

heartbreak_star

Ohhh Alan Garner is fab!

Also the Deptford Mice and the Whitby Witches series by Robin Jarvis

HBS x

Dunroamin

lostinrates wrote: »

Omg, dunromin, how funny.,......,




I think we should swap book lists :rotfl:

I've never come across anyone who's even heard of them before!:)

lostinrates

Dunroamin wrote: »

I've never come across anyone who's even heard of them before!:)

I'm not properly British, so lots of my 'classic' childhood literature is not just British either. .


I'm glad to meet a fellow Emily fan.