My sister’s birthday is coming up on oct 30. She’s almost 14. She’s got into reading recently. She liked Harry Potter, but she absolutely adored the percy jackson series and has read ALL of the sequels and stuff by the same author.
Can anyone suggest a good fantasy series set that I can gift her on her birthday? I’m not familiar with any books.
I’ve already sort of tried asking if she wanted Narnia, but she once said it doesn’t sound interesting, so anything else? Possibly with a group of friends going on an adventure but also with an adult feel to it. She doesn’t seem to like books that *feel* as if they’re for children.
by Lenore8264
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The Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L’Engle
The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander.
The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien
Warriors series was good.
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix!! I resonated so much with Lirael at that age.
The Kingfountain series by Jeff Wheeler
The Legends of Muirwood series by Jeff Wheeler. There are other Muirwood subseries that follow this one if she likes it
A Deadly Education for sure!
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Shadow and Bone (all of Leigh Bardugo’s books are super popular with young teens)
Legend by Marie Lu
Sorcery of Thorns
Hunger Games
Divine Rivals
Shatter Me
Delirium
Cinder
The Kiss of Deception
Legendborn
Red Queen
Not fantasy but also really popular with my students are The Inheritance Games books
Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan.
A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking by T.Kingfisher
(Why, yes, I do obsessively recommend this book)
The Unwanted series
Gregor the overlander series
The land if elyon series
*The Golden Compass* – it’s the first of the *His Dark Materials* trilogy and the series is phenomenal – just keeps getting better. Has a great young female protagonist, too, which she might enjoy.
– Earthsea
– The Borrowers
– Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
– Brave Story (Miyuki Miyabe)
*His Dark Materials* trilogy by Philip Pullman
*Pendragon* series by D. J. MacHale
*Bartimaeus Sequence* by Jonathan Stroud
Inksheart trilogy
The Kiki Kallira series by Sangu Mandanna!!
Gregor the overlander series by Suzanne Collins