YA suggestion
Quote from Mycroft W on 17 February 2021, 11:54 AM...because I'm not a Twitterati.
I'm also not a YA (pretty much your age), but I got hooked on Seanan McGuire's October Daye series (not *exactly* YA, and the main character's active sartorial choice is "things that won't be completely ruined when [not if] they get [usually her] blood on them", but if you're good with that, really good urban fantasy with Faerie), so I thought I'd try some other stuff.
I will recommend her Wayward Children series, starting with "Every Heart a Doorway". Warnings: it's about children that don't fit, so sometimes unloved or uncaring children, and it is by no means violence- or sad ending-free. I would definitely read it first before passing it to my daughter; but at 13 I had already worked my way through LoTR, so I may have a higher opinion of what teenagers are comfortable with than some.
Catherynne Valente's Fairyland books, starting with "The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" are also a good choice (though I haven't read more than two of those).
...because I'm not a Twitterati.
I'm also not a YA (pretty much your age), but I got hooked on Seanan McGuire's October Daye series (not *exactly* YA, and the main character's active sartorial choice is "things that won't be completely ruined when [not if] they get [usually her] blood on them", but if you're good with that, really good urban fantasy with Faerie), so I thought I'd try some other stuff.
I will recommend her Wayward Children series, starting with "Every Heart a Doorway". Warnings: it's about children that don't fit, so sometimes unloved or uncaring children, and it is by no means violence- or sad ending-free. I would definitely read it first before passing it to my daughter; but at 13 I had already worked my way through LoTR, so I may have a higher opinion of what teenagers are comfortable with than some.
Catherynne Valente's Fairyland books, starting with "The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" are also a good choice (though I haven't read more than two of those).
Quote from C. B. Wright on 17 February 2021, 4:16 PMThank you for those suggestions! I will add them to the pile. I've started her with six books and we're going to see whether any of them take, and then add more over time.
Thank you for those suggestions! I will add them to the pile. I've started her with six books and we're going to see whether any of them take, and then add more over time.