Book recommendations for a 12-year-old girl?

[smilingcat]

Ooo... loved Once and Future King by T.H. White Also loved reading Mist of Avalon by Marion Bradley.

I'll come clean and admit I loved reading Anne Mc Caffrey's Harper Hall Trilogy. It was part of Dragonsong series. Sad that she just recently passed away.

The Hobbit, and the Middle Earth Trilogy. I wasn't too keen on Silmmarillion.

Can't imagine how a good story ever go out of style...

[ny biker]

I'm now told she did not like Harry Potter. Hmmm.

[channlluv]

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver - six books in the series and the research and writing are some of the best I've ever read, set in Woodlands era, northern Europe, among the nomadic tribes

The Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce - girl power! medieval fantasy

Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce - more girl power, with magic -- this one actually predates The Protector of the Small

Brand new science fiction, The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Macker, author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - in The Future of Us, a girl in 1995 gets a computer and a disk to load AOL, only she gets Facebook instead and she and her best friend learn about their future selves.

Roxy

[OakLeaf]

Most anything by Cynthia Voigt is appropriate for a kid that age - she's done a couple for younger children and one for adults, but the Tillerman series (her first) is a good place to start, and the Bad Girls series is also very good.

[Lizzz]

At that age maybe it's a good idea to start with the classics, as a child of that age I loved "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

[TxRider]

My niece, who is now 15, enjoyed the Rick Riordan series which was suggested by a middle-school Reading teacher (friend of mine). Her students loved them & my niece really liked them as well.

The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan's Curse
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Last Olympian
The Demigod Files

I think that's all of them?

[Veronica]

My niece, who is now 15, enjoyed the Rick Riordan series which was suggested by a middle-school Reading teacher (friend of mine). Her students loved them & my niece really liked them as well.

The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan's Curse
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Last Olympian
The Demigod Files

I think that's all of them?

Loved these and he has another set going about the Roman gods. He's two books into that one and a set on Egyptian gods - also two books in. I can barely wait for the next ones to come out.

Scott Westerfield also has a trilogy set in an alternate version of pre WW1. The first one is called Leviathian.

I just read The House on Mango Street today and it is a little adult in some places, too much for me to read aloud to my class, but I've got a girl I would give it to. It's a very easy read, but the language and the images she evokes are amazing. It's often referenced as an example of good writing in teacher manuals, and I had never read it. i can see why it's referenced.

Veronica

[pll]

There is one book I would recommend, but it is not available for a kindle (I guess it would help if people request it) and it is hard to find in English: "My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos. I remember sobbing as I read, but I could not put it down.

[ny biker]

This is such a great list!! And it's also giving me ideas for my other niece, who is 10 and also loves to read. They share a lot of books, and actually make recommendations for each other.

The younger girl really loved all the Harry Potter books. When she was younger, she absolutely adored the Rainbow Fairy books. Even when they were way below her reading level, she still asked me to buy the new ones for her.

[azfiddle]

I was going to suggest the Tamora Pierce books also, if she likes fantasy, and books by Diana Wynne Jones.

I also teach middle school and can ask the language arts teacher.

[salsabike]

I don't know why it took so long to occur to me to tell you this, but Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games) also did a really delightful 5-book series for kids called The Underland Chronicles: http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/g...cles_48384.htm

And while it may have been written for kids, I read every single book and really enjoyed myself!