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amother
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 Tue, Jan 30 2024, 7:49 pm
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Need book recommendations for a 13 year girl. Must be clean do not want books that revolve a romance like Anne of green gables. She loves historical fiction, anything about animals, doesn't love magic and major fantasy, or mystery. She reads at a very high level is ready for adult books reading wise but I don't want those concepts yet. Looking for books I can get from the library.
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amother
SandyBrown
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 9:20 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | Need book recommendations for a 13 year girl. Must be clean do not want books that revolve a romance like Anne of green gables. She loves historical fiction, anything about animals, doesn't love magic and major fantasy, or mystery. She reads at a very high level is ready for adult books reading wise but I don't want those concepts yet. Looking for books I can get from the library. |
In the same boat.
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GLUE
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 10:17 pm
Would she want a biography of a horse?
Man O'War-Walter Farley
He wrote the The Black Stallion books, I am not so sure if libraries still have them through.
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amother
SandyBrown
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 10:18 pm
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Mysterious Benedict society
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monseymom25
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 10:26 pm
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Has she read all of the Little house books?
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amother
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 10:27 pm
| monseymom25 wrote: | | Has she read all of the Little house books? |
She didn't like them at all. She was at that level a few years ago, needs more mature at this point.
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amother
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Tue, Jan 30 2024, 10:28 pm
| GLUE wrote: | Would she want a biography of a horse?
Man O'War-Walter Farley
He wrote the The Black Stallion books, I am not so sure if libraries still have them through. |
Maybe. She read all the black stallion books a while back really liked them.
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GLUE
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 6:56 am
The problem is that historical fiction is not in now. I am finding that most books for her age is fantasy or that like. You might have to find books that where written years ago and hope your library still have them.
I checked my public library and they still have some books by
Avi- He wrote a lot of historical fiction
Will Hobbs-He wrote adventurer books many of them trying to save an animal, you would have to look through some of them.
Maybe yours might have some
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amother
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 7:41 am
| GLUE wrote: | The problem is that historical fiction is not in now. I am finding that most books for her age is fantasy or that like. You might have to find books that where written years ago and hope your library still have them.
I checked my public library and they still have some books by
Avi- He wrote a lot of historical fiction
Will Hobbs-He wrote adventurer books many of them trying to save an animal, you would have to look through some of them.
Maybe yours might have some |
She read most of the avi books. Will look into will Hobbs. So hard that it’s all fantasy.
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amother
Geranium
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 7:49 am
Charlotte’s Web
The American girl doll books
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Linen
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 7:50 am
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amother
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 7:58 am
She read all the ones at the library. We own a lot too like the avner gold books. It’s very limited.
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amother
Royalblue
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 9:02 am
I got very into the Miss Read books at about that age. All about the daily dramas of an English village school. Not written as historical fiction, but set more or less contemporary in the 1950's, so it might feel historical, or old fashioned to her. I found them a good transition into adult books.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mis.....p_1_7
If you can find Doreen Tovey's books about life with a pair of Siamese cats, she might like them.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dor.....p_2_9
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amother
Linen
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 9:16 am
| amother OP wrote: | | She read all the ones at the library. We own a lot too like the avner gold books. It’s very limited. |
Would she read Jewish biographies? They are many about Gedolim and then there are the Nachman Salzer type. There are soooo many. My son is 14 and many of his friends ready them. Avner Gold are probably a little below her grade level. Some suggestions
- Bamboo Cradle
- To Remain a Jew
- Subbota
- Holy Woman (a little mature)
- From Djerba to Jersualem
Do you let her read Holocaust books?
- The Youngest Partisan
- Alone in the Forest
- Song of Hope
The Holocaust Diaries has several books that aren't too intense
Meyer Bendett books -
Marcus Lehmann
Ithamar
The Aguanah
Not sure if any have romance
Let me know if you'd like any more suggestions!
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scruffy
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 9:18 am
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, My Side of the Mountain (and sequels)
Has she read these classic books yet - Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Around the World in Eighty Days, Sherlock Holmes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Black Beauty, The Call of the Wild
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GLUE
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 11:35 am
My library still has Joan Lowery Nixon series of
Ellis Island
Orphan train adventures-she wrote 2 series one for younger kids and one for older kids
I think these are OK , it has been years since I read them.
A new book came out I did not read it its called
Orphan Train Girl-Christina Kline
The author wrote a book for adults this is for middle school kids, stuff was taken out of the adult book when this one was written, you can look into it.
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amother
Dimgray
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 11:35 am
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My daughter likes biographies geared towards kids. She has read about Mozart, Louis Braille, Etc
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amother
Pistachio
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 11:42 am
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Did she read Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh? Its a very deep and thought provoking story and beautifully written.
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amother
Pistachio
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Wed, Jan 31 2024, 12:05 pm
How about From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler. Its a little on the younger side, but a good one if she hasn't read it.
Catherine, called Birdy (Karen Cushman) is another old favorite similar level to above.
Has she tried The Secret Garden and A little Princess? I think the level could be 6-8th grade.
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