teen girl reading recommendations

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Hey, my niece Sabrina likes to read. She's about to turn 13 in June. Can you make any suggestions for wholesome (Christian or non) books that a girl her age might enjoy? I'm thinking I might get her some for her birthday, because apparently she reads up a storm and needs constant replenishment. Thanks!

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[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

I always liked the "Mandie" series by Lois Gladys Leppard.

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

Ohhh! I remember the Sadie Rose books! Yes, those are good!

Grandma's Attic, too. *love*

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Oh cool - thanks!

[hestergray.livejournal.com]

I think I started reading the Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn when I was about that age. I think they're kind of cheesy now, but at the time, I thought they were great.

Also, I liked the Elizabeth Gail books by Hilda Stahl. According to this website (http://www.readingwell.com/z-stahl.html), the original books were published in 1978, and then in 2001 they re-published them, but only some of them and gave some of them new names. I don't know why. There was nothing wrong with the originals. That just seems very silly to me, especially leaving a bunch of them out. But anyway, if you find the original series, they're really good.

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was thinking of Christy Miller but I'm not sure she's quite ready for that yet (though I haven't read them myself), just based on something she expressed to my sister the other day.

Thanks for the recommendations! That is weird about the names.

[jennymae.livejournal.com]

Oh boy... Let me see. Since she's an avid reader, she probably has read many of these, but just in case... (A couple of these might be a little bit too old for her, but I think she should be okay with any of them.)

Books by: Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, Eleanor Estes, Agatha Christie, Maud Hart Lovelace, Elizabeth Spear, Elizabeth Enright, Margaret Sidney.

Titles (excuse the lack of italics): Across Five Aprils, Rifles for Watie, The Westing Game, Johnny Tremain, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Golden Goblet, Red Sails to Capri, The Door in the Wall, Pollyanna.

Can you tell I love young adult fiction? :-)

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations!