Anonymous wrote:Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Fault in Our Stars (and other John Green books), The Princess Diaries series.

But at this age kids should be venturing beyond YA and reading widely. Hemingway, Austen, Tolstoy are all pretty accessible and enjoyable. If she's a less advanced reader, Little Women and Anne of Green Gables are also great.

Agree with this (though I could only bring myself to read the "peace" parts of War and Peace at age 12, the war parts were incredibly boring).

Non-YA
Lovely War (yes it's historical and has Greek gods in WWII France, but it's not hitting you over the head with the history and you don't really have to know the mythology to get into it)
Try Agatha Christie if she might be into mysteries.

YA
Gary Schmid books like The Wednesday Wars, Okay for Now, and Just Like That
Meet the Austins series
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
The Westing Game
The Inheritance Games series

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Anonymous wrote:Heartstopper is more 16+ Content has self harm, bullying, latest volume sex.

You're joking. My 11 year old boy read Heartstopper with me this year and it's completely appropriate for 12-13.

My 12 year old DD loves these books.

Anonymous wrote:Heartstopper is more 16+ Content has self harm, bullying, latest volume sex.

You're joking. My 11 year old boy read Heartstopper with me this year and it's completely appropriate for 12-13.

Anonymous wrote:The war that changed my life

It's about a girl during WWII and totally does not sound like the kind of light book my kid would normally like, but she couldn't put it down. There's a sequel, too.

It's The War That Saved My Life, and the sequel is The Wat I Finally Won. Definitely a book that has turned non-readers into readers!!!

Also highly loved by 6th and 7th graders by the same author is Fighting Words. It's set in the present time and takes on very serious issues. Girls pass it to each other.

Also totally un-put-down-able:

Alone by Megan Freeman
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
The newest Dusti Bowling, Across the Desert, is also gaining popularity
The Flight of the Puffin

Anonymous wrote:Keepers of the Lost Cities series

What would one read after Keeper of the Lost Cities? My daughter had read the series twice through in succession.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Fault in Our Stars (and other John Green books), The Princess Diaries series.

But at this age kids should be venturing beyond YA and reading widely. Hemingway, Austen, Tolstoy are all pretty accessible and enjoyable. If she's a less advanced reader, Little Women and Anne of Green Gables are also great.

There's a bunch of YA that she'd like by Rainbow Rowell, maybe start with Eleanor and Park?
Or the School of Good and Evil.

Kasie West author

Dystopian Matched by Ally Condie

Descendants novels if she likes the movies.