Good tween book suggestions?

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My sister is looking for some good books to read while on vacation. She is tween age range 9- 12 yrs old. She likes Sammy Keys, but also wants to try something different than mystery books (something more girly she says). Any suggestions?

Mimosa · Accepted Answer

a couple of these books (by stepehn king for instance) are a bit too advanced but i read most of them when i was 12.

the absolutely true diary of a part time indian
any book by gabrielle zevin
everlost - Neil Shusterman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
breathe a ghost story - cliff mcnish
airhead - meg cabot
Twilight- Stephanie Meyer
New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
The Host - Stephanie Meyer
The Sacrifice – Kathleen Bennor Duble
The Melting of Maggie Bean – Tricia Rayburn
Crunch Time –Mariah Fredericks
Call It Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Night – Elia Wiesel
Wringer - Jerry Spinelli
My Name is Not Angelica – 
13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson
Water Tales – Alice Hoffman
Calvin and Hobbs - Bill Watterson
Into the Mist – Patrick Carman
The Face on the Milk Carton – Caroline B. Cooney
Drawing Lessons – Tracy Mack
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chavalier
Wish You Well – David Baldacci
It - Stephen King 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
Scrambled Eggs by Midnight – Barkley &Hepler
Under the Persimmon Tree – Staples
Water Song –Suzanne Weyn
The Barcode Rebellion – Suzanne Weyn
The Truth about Forever – Sarah Dessen
Lawn Boy – Gary Paulsen
Caught by the Sea – Gary Paulsen
Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
Defining Dulcie – Paul Acrampora
The Sunflower - Richard Paul Evans
Prey – Michael Crichton 
Angela’s ashes – Frank McCourt
Mystery Isle – Judith St. George
Nightrise – Anthony Horowitz
Four Perfect Pebbles –
I have lived a thousand years – Livia Bitton Jackson
Your eyes in stars - M.E. Kerr 
Claws – Dan Greengurg
The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
Messenger- Lois Lowry 
Gossamer – Lois Lowry
The Time capsule – Lurlene Mcdaniel
Searching for David’s Heart
Letters from a nut – Ted L. Nancy
Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
Breaking Point - Alex Flinn
A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life - Dana Reinhart
The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
The Five People you meet in Heaven – Mitch Alborn
For one more day – Mitch Alborn 
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
Jumping the Scratch – Sarah Weeks
Kit’s Wilderness – David Almond
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Looking for Alaska – John Green
Lush – Natasha Friend
Marley and Me – John Grogan
Me & Emma – Elizabeth Flock
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
The Minister’s Daughter – Julie Hearn
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Thirsty – M.T. Anderson
A Time for Dancing - Davida Wills Hurwin
Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
Marly’s Ghost - David Levithan
Lock and Key – Sarah Dessen
Confessions of a Serial Killer – Wendelin Van Draanen.
Frostbite – Richelle Mead, 
Faerie Path – Frewin Jones
Spud – John van de Ruit.
Glass – Ellen Hopkins
Rumors – Anna Godbersen, 
The Fire Eternal – Chris D’Lacey
Model – 
The Telling Pool – David Clement-Davies
Tweak – Nic Sheff
Wings – E.D. …
Black Rabbit Summer – Kevin Brooks
Trouble – Gary D. Schmidt 
Peaches – Jodi Lynn Anderson
Feed – M.T. Anderson
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Twisted – Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
Newes from the Dead – 
A Break with Charity – Ann Rinaldi
Wicked – 
Wake – Lisa Mcmann
Impulse – Ellen Hopkins

answerer · Answer

Try the 2 book series called I could tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you. It is about this girl in a secret spy school for girls. I have the first one, but I have not read it yet. They are supposed to be really good though. I am in her age bracket, because I am 12. That gives her a cross between mystery and girliness, I hope this helps! : )

marcom · Answer

She ought to relish the Percy Jackson and the Olympians sequence with the help of Rick Riordan. they are aimed for tweens, so as that they are modest. The books are some boy who discovers that his father is Poseidon. The Greek mythology interior the books is modernized by way of fact the books are set in recent-day us of a. it incredibly is a great sequence. the 1st e book is The Lightning Thief. with reference to procuring Nancy Drew and all those different older sequence, it incredibly is incredibly helpful to attempt procuring on line with the help of Amazon or yet another internet site. (additionally, with reference to the Clique sequence - i does not recommend having your daughter examine them. the girls interior the books are extraordinarily shallow and egocentric, and the morals are not very good.)

Optimistic · Answer

i used to read these when i was that age...

gossip girl the series 
Story of a girl
Sweethearts 
The Accidental Virgin 
The Bachelorette Party

Anonymous · Answer

animorphs!!!

Good tween book suggestions?

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