Books for 13 years old girl!

Any recommendation books for a 13 years old girl. Books that might catch her eye!

What are her interests? What does she like to read? Would you describe her as mature or immature for her age?

I don't know her tastes and interests, but perhaps The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and the Anne of Green Gables series.

>2 lilithcat: She's a bit immature. She likes to be the leader, to command. Is to think of boys but is not so vain. She likes to read like adventure books for children, teenagers.

>4 girl.in.love.bts:

How about Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series? The female protagonist is 11 at the beginning of the series, and she definitely has adventures!

My daughter is 10 and enjoying the Chris Colfer series starting with The Wishing Spell.

I'd like to introduce her to Alanna: The First Adventure.

If she likes adventures, a girl detective series might appeal to her . I was a big fan of Trixie Belden, and the classic is of course, Nancy Drew.

I don't have any suggestions, but can I challenge recommenders to come up with something from this century? So far I see one, and a lot of stuff that I read decades ago.

The Enola Holmes mysteries, perhaps? Or the Theodosia series?

Nnedi Okorafor has some excellent middle grade books. I especially enjoyed Zahrah the Windseeker.

Seconding pretty much anything by Tamora Pierce.

>8 lorax: It doesn’t hurt to have an early exposure to the classics. I’d suggest the Alcott books, starting with Eight Cousins.

Exposure to the classics is fine. A steady diet of nothing but is not. (And while I enjoyed them as a kid I don't think Trixie Belden counts as "classic" by any definition.)

The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
Katie the Catsitter by Colleen A.F. Venable
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee
Jennifer Chan is Not Alone by Tae Keller
Jinxed by Amy McCullough
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The Great Library series by Rachel Caine

Inkheart and sequels by Cornelia Funke

A wizard's guide to defensive baking by T. Kingfisher

Co-sign the T. Kingfisher, and I also recommend her Minor Mage.

Some suggestions of adventure books for her age range on the generally lighter reading side (all series link to the first book in the series):
Harriet the Invincible
The Keeper of the Lost Cities
The Wings of Fire
A Tale Dark and Grimm (Especially a fun series if you've read beyond mainstream fairytales)
The Frog Princess
The Forbidden Library
Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins

Some non-adventure books I also recommend:
Willow Falls Series
The Girl with the Silver Eyes (Especially if she's interested in historical context as the book itself takes some influence from the Thalidomide Tragedy of the 1950s. I read it myself when I was 12 and found the history very interesting)
Tuesdays at the Castle

My favorite series for a girl that age who loves adventure is the Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer. (Sounds gruesome, but it isn't. A girl - Jacky Faber - disguises herself as a boy and hires on a ship.)

The first one is Bloody Jack.

Also, is the reader in middle school or high school? If middle school, maybe The true meaning of Smekday, which uses a school essay assignment as part of the story.

I also recommend Snapdragon by Kat Leyh. It's great!

A current bestselling series in England is the Robin Stevens crime books set in a boarding school - a kind of mashup of agatha christie + malory towers. Retro but apparently addictive. The 1st is Arsenic For Tea

ETA also, drat, book #1 is Murder Most Unladylike

>22 2wonderY: thanks 2wonderY. I failed on linkage there

I'd like to second the Anne of Green Gables series, especially since 'She likes to be the leader, to command. Is to think of boys but is not so vain. She likes to read ...'

I haven't read them myself, but the Enola Holmes books? She's supposedly the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. (And they have been adapted for the screen.)

As for recommendations from this century - I was that age in the '80s, so that's what I read. My kids are boys, but my younger son is around the same age. He likes Rick Riordan, Skulduggery Pleasant, Hunger Games but his taste (when you can get him off his screens) runs to gothic, like Five Nights At Freddies