Hi!
My partner and I are staying with family at Christmas and it will be the first time meeting them and their 2 girls.
We got told that the oldest (age preteen/ advanced middle grade?) is really into reading fantasy. And is currently reading the Twilight series 😂 Any book recommendations would be great!
I was thinking about the first book in the Iron Fae series but wasnt sure 😅 I think I might have been around her age when I first read it. (Possibly a year or 2 older)
Thank you! 💕🎄
by BritainsKoala
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How old is she actually? And does she actually read middle grade? Or does she read Twilight and other YA? Does she like Fantasy with a capital F, or just romance-forward speculative YA? (there is a difference) Like… there’s a wide gulf between “Percy Jackson is age appropriate/of interest” and “ready to jump into full-on YA” and it will depend on reading level, maturity, and her parents. Though if they’re letting her read Twilight…
If she’s reading and into Twilight, she’ll probably want something romance-forward. If she hasn’t read Cassie Clare, she might like the Mortal Instruments series. She might like Brigid Kemmerer. Or she might like more superpowers/dystopian and enjoy Red Queen. That’s what I suspect if Twilight is the book du jour. If she’s into Fantasy with a capital F, it would be a different list. Oh, other romance-forward dystopians that teens still devour: The Selection series and the Shatter Me series.
There’s a really great book called “The Girl Who Could Fly” by Victoria Forester that I recommend to everyone who is around that age.
It’s about an 11 year old farm girl who can fly and gets sent to a school full of other kids with powers. There are three books in the series currently. It’s set in the modern world and it’s a little sci-fi, a little fantasy. (There’s nothing inappropriate in it except, if I remember correctly, the word Damn is in it once I think.)
I read twilight when I was 11, for reference.
Edit: meant to say that, aside from the romance elements, twilight is mostly about a misfit girl who finds herself in a strange world where she actually fits in. This is also the general theme of The Girl Who Could Fly