Hey y’all!
My niece’s birthday is coming up soon, and she absolutely loves reading! I’d like to keep fostering her love of reading by giving her more books to enjoy this coming year.
She has read all the Harry Potter books, the Percy Jackson series and so on. What do you recommend for her age?
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Absolutely 100% [Nevermoor](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6a6d5ca1-b2f5-47be-828c-018144d3bbc7) by Jessica Townsend, especially given the other books you’ve mentioned. I could definitely give you more recs if you want others as well, but that’s for sure my top rec!
Peter and the star catchers
Not fantasy but I loved Sharon Creech at that age (Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Bloomability were all my favorites of hers)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Holes by Louis Sachar
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison are incredibly fun books. I tore through those ones when I was that age.
Artemis Fowl is a great read.
I also loved the Georgia Nicholson diaries when I was her age.
I loved The Giver when I was younger
The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
Akata Witch triology
Binti triology
Both by Nnedi Okorafor
Villains series by Serena Valentino
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot if she wants to try something different (female lead, a bit of romance).
Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events
Anything by Tamora Pierce
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins is a good YA Harry Potter-esque series.
Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll (and all her books generally).
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. (There is a follow up trilogy in progress, The Book of Dust, but some of it, especially The Secret Commonwealth, is too adult for a 12 year old.)
The Westing Game
Tamora Pierce! They will go well with what she already likes and have strong active heroines.
The Wee Free Men, it’s the first book of the Tiffany Aching sub series from Discworld.
Tiffany is 9ish I think in the first book and grows up through the rest a la Harry Potter.
They are beautifully written, funny and with some real emotional qualities.