Can you recommend books for a 13 year-old girl?

**Suzi** · February 20th, 2009, 05:59 PM

Anything but Twilight. 8-)
well, not ANYTHING.
Even at 13, classics can't go wrong.
Pride and Prejudice, well, anything by Austen really. Noughts and Crosses by Mallorie Blackman. (:
I definitely second Goodnight Mr Tom, and To Kill A Mockingbird.

**mklady** · March 7th, 2009, 05:35 PM

Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Gosh, I can't really think of anything else. I was such an avid reader that I pretty much devoured anything that came in the house. I was routinely lectured in school for reading "inappropriate" material. Apparently the teacher didn't think an 11 year old in 6th grade should read Stephen King, lol. If I think of anything else, I'll post it. The four that I listed are ones that I've gone back to several times, Despereaux is one that I'm reading to small fry here, I won't let him see the movie until we read the book, lol.

**Daphne** · March 25th, 2009, 12:50 PM

I'm late to the party, but these are books I remember reading and enjoying when I was around 13:

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (I also liked its follow-up, Haveli)
The Midwife's Apprentice
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Number the Stars

Edited to add: I was also a huge fan of R.L. Stine's Fear Street and Christopher Pike's works, but I'm not sure how school appropriate those are.

**sputnik** · March 25th, 2009, 03:26 PM

thanks a lot, everyone!

**january** · March 25th, 2009, 07:59 PM

Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi

An Audience for Einstein by Mark Wakely (classifed as young adult, I think she could read this one)

The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

ETA: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle! Thank you so much! I was just wracking my brain trying to figure out what that book was called. I loved that one when I was a girl.