Hoping this may click with someone re easing the move out of children's literature. Poss running scared of 'romance' so rejects teenage fiction. Doesn't like Jean Plaidy-type historical fiction or Agatha Christie which helped my 3 DDs through this stage. Her sister has cornered the Gerald Durrell scene. She much enjoyed Michelle Obama, also, Three men in a boat, and A town like Alice, which she had from the school library, and Simon Hoggart's Christmas Letters which she found in a bookcase here and was heard hooting over. Should be an easy clean slate and I'd be happy to get more than one book if I knew what to get (her mother at a loss too). I think book tokens a bit of a cop out, also that at 12 it's still nice to have a proper present to unwrap under the tree. Many many thanks if anyone else has hit this and remembers the answer.
