I've recently started bringing my 2yo to the public library. The tween books are always in the children's area so I started browsing while my little one played nearby and found some really nostalgic books from my childhood like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The City of Ember, and books by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I've started reading them just for the nostalgia and I've been really enjoying them even as an adult. Being tween books, I've been kinda blasting through them so hoping to get suggestions for similar books I might enjoy!
I picked up All the Wrong Questions by Lemony Snicket as well that I've never read and definitely enjoy his writing style. Another tween/YA (not sure where it falls) series I liked a lot was Uglies. And my favorite adult books are anything by Terry Pratchett, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and LoTR. In case that helps provide context for what I might like. (Also open to adult book suggestions- next on my list to read is the Shadow and Bone books)
Thanks in advance to anyone with recommendations 🙂
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Princess academy by Shannon hale. She also wrote the ever after high books
Elizabeth George Speare maybe
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Holes by Louis Sachar
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
The Bunnicula books by James Howe
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Almost anything by Gail Carson Levine. Ella Enchanted is still one of my all time favorites.
Akata Witch (the whole trilogy really) by Nnedi Okorafor
When You Reach Me (but also read a Wrinkle in Time with it if you didn’t read it as a kid because it’s relevant!)
any of the Nancy Farmer books
many of the James Ponti books but maybe start with Dead City (also a trilogy)
The Luck Uglies (also a trilogy)
any of the tween/teen Paolo Baciagalupi books
Tamora Pierce books
The Emerald Atlas series
the 100 Cupboards series
Beasts Made of Night
Doll Bones
The Clockwork Three
Greenglass House
if you’re willing to dabble more in mystery without fantasy elements The Westing Game, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Chasing Vermeer are all delightful
Inkheart
Chronicles of Narnia
Ranger’s Apprentice series