What are some good books that are appropriate for a 12 year old girl? Any genre is fine!
What are some good books that are appropriate for a 12 year old girl? Any genre is fine!
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Rick Riordan books
The Menagerie series by Tui T Sutherland is such a fun book and it is full of magical creatures and an awesome family.
Highly recommend. I loved it and I’m 21..
bridge to teribithia
That has a sad ending right?
@Jennifer i mean it’s a little sad yeah but we read it in 5th grade so
I think I actually read it in 4th or 6th grade.
@Jennifer it’s pretty good
Yeah it is.
westing game
Gregor the Overlander
Keeper of the Lost Cities. My daughter is in 6th grade, loves to read and swears it’s the best fantasy series she’s ever read.
The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce 🙂
Tamora Pierce!
Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn series. Rick Riordan. David Eddings, JK Rowling, Tolkien…
Meg cabbot!
Her mediator series is amazing
Or the key to rondo series…. or skullduggery pleasant
So B. It
I absolutely loved that book when I was younger.
Anything by Brandon Mull!! His Fablehaven series is amazing. And Beyonders trilogy is one of my overall favorite set of books.
I second the Fablehaven series!!!
@Kelsy have you read his Beyonders series? If not you should. Soo good.
I haven’t but I’ll have to look into it!
Beka Cooper series and immortals series both by Tamora Pierce. Actually all Tamora Pierce she’s fantastic
Deltora Quest – Emily Rodda
Any Rick Riordan series
The Harry Potter series
The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Wizard’s Hall or The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. I was reading Xanth by Piers Anthony at that age. Magic Kingdom of Landover by Terry Brooks. I’m guessing she’s already read Harry Potter, LOTR, and The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks? You could try her on Pendragon by Stephen R. Lawhead or Ender by Orson Scott Card. Most of Anne McCaffery is good.
I remember reading the wedding planners daughter series and mind games. Also matched series and wings series
I can’t remember exactly how old I was but in addition to many already mentioned ☝️I loved all the Artemis Fowl books.
Anything by Cathy Cassidy but my favourites were Driftwood, Ginger Snaps and Dizzy
The Book Jumper!
Ruby Red series!
His dark materials by Phillip Pullman
100 cupboards series
Percy Jackson
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Warrior cat series
Emily Windsnap
Also the Young Wizards by Diane Duane, Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques, Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene, and Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon.
Percy Jackson, narnia, the golden compass, the gone series (I started reading them when I was 12 but they get a little dark further into the series so maybe research it first?)
And of course Harry Potter ?
Ally Carter books!
Tamora Pierce!!!
Fablehaven
I second this!
Lockwood and co and the lunar chronicles
The Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo I read them at that age and just started rereading. So good.
The Lunar Chronicles and Percy Jackson.
Harry Potter!
Gallagher girls ~ Ally Carter
The School for Good and Evil ~ Soman Chainani
Secrets, lies and locker 62 ~ Lil Chase
It may be a little on the juvenile side, but when I was growing up I absolutely LOVED the Sammy Keyes series, by Wendelin Van Draanen.
Percy Jackson
The Isis trilogy by Monica Hughes. This is an older series, but I read it when I was 10 and it is still one of my favourites.
O.R. Melling’s Chronicles of Faerie are good young adult books, about two cousins in Ireland who become entangled in the land of the faerie. Covers a lot of folklore and mythology without being dull.
T.A. Barron’s The Ancient One is another fantastic book for that age that I highly recommend.
Tamora Pierce Circle of Magic series. Terry Pratchett Tiffany aching series starting with ‘wee free men’
Susan Cooper The Dark is rising sequence
Alex rider series
Geek girl series by Holly Smale 😀 x
Deltoras quest
My daughter is almost 12 and completely obsessed with the Warrior series by Erin Hunter.
My son loved these too!
I started reading TMI when I was 12
Percy Jackson!
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede.
Ella Enchanted was my fave at that age (still love it)
Wonder, A Wrinkle in Time , Kai’s Secret and The Disappearing Act were written by a middle school teacher.
Can I suggest my own? It’s about dragons and I was a teenager when I wrote it (technically still am) so I think you’re good.
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Dragons-Julie-Kramer/dp/1984162314/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535543043&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=the+science+of+dragons+julie+kramer
A series of unfortunate events
Spiderwick chronicles
Percy Jackson
Harry potter
The Lunar chronicles
As a kid I loved The Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Also the house of night series is fine for that age
The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Percy Jackson
Narnia chronicles
My The Edinburgh Seer trilogy is perfect for all ages. 🙂
Never Girls. Percy Jackson (<3 for all ages) Harry Potter. The land of stories
East by Edith Pattou is a good one! My daughter loved it.
My 12 year old reader loved Hunger Games (which may not be appropriate for all children her age), anything by Rick Riordan, Harry Potter, the Selection, Cinder, the Wayward Children books
Land of stories
School for good and evil
Ever the brave/ever the hunted
Mysterious Benedict society
I second Percy Jackson ❤️
Harry Potter and Percy Jackson
Daniel X series by James Patterson
Harry Potter and any Rick Riordan book
Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Moat of the James Patterson stuff, I read City of Bones with I was around that age, Pride and Prejudice, maybe Anne of Green Gables?
Percy Jackson, miss perigrines series
The Wishing Spell
Wizard of Oz
Kingdom Keepers
Heroes of Olypums
Thank you all so much! I really appreciate all your suggestions
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