Stuck for reading ideas for 12-yr-old

I love Simon Scarrow books, thanks for reminding me, must read some more.

I’ve sent you a pm.

Malory Blackman writes for the inbetweeners. My daughter loved her books around that age. Modern stories.

DD gobbled up the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman, which are now on TV. Though she was also totally into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Anything involving zombies or demons seems to be a great hit these days. Try Suzanne Collins

If you ask in Waterstones they are very helpful and have their finger on the modern pulse. My granddaughter loves an adventure.

I highly recommend books in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden - the main protaganist and hero, is Ellie, a teenage girl.

Tomorrow when the War began is the first in the series.

It's set in Australia and begins when a group of teenagers come back from a picnic to find that someone (we are never told who) has invaded the country and their parents are prisoners.

They then begin a sort of Resistance, outsmarting the enemy and sabotaging strategic points. Gloriously exciting and brilliant to show girls they are natural leaders.

Then there are the classics: Swallows and Amazons; The Railway Children; Paul Gallico's Snow Goose and Tarka the Otter series.

But do try the Tomorrow series....

BTW, you or she can read some of the Tomorrow book if you go here and scroll down...
www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781743548493/

At about that age I devoured books. I loved the classics. I read Jane Ayre, Kidnapped, Treasure Island.
My DD read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings at about that age.
My 12 year old granddaughter is reading the trilogy His Dark Materials starting with Northern Lights.
She doesn't want to watch the current tv series until she's read them all.

I really loved science fiction at that age.

A good site for ideas is
www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

It divides books by age group but that can be flexible. I must admit that, at that age, I was fixated on Biggles books but those are ancient history nowadays.
I agree that Philip Pullman's trilogy is ideal, starting with Northern Lights. If she likes Sci Fi, she might enjoy Terry Pratchett's books.

My granddaughter loved The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (part of a trilogy) and also the Philip Pullman Northern Lights books. And anything that involves a depressing, dystopian setting it would seem!

I discovered Harold Robbins when I was 12.

We were in a hotel in Majorca which had a small library

My grandmother was appalled to see me sat on the beach, deeply engrossed in A Stone for Danny Fisher

I'm not suggesting this as suitable material