Hey! My cousin is about to be 15 & reads every once in a while. She recently read The Outsiders for school & liked it. She also has read the YA Disney Princess retellings. What would be a good book to get her for her birthday!?
Since most people are hitting the fairy tale side, I’ll go the teen/gang route. Obviously, you could give her other Hinton works (i.e. *Rumble Fish*), or *Foxfire* by Joyce Carol Oates. *Memos From Purgatory*, by Harlan Ellison, is a memoir of being in a juvenile gang in the Forties, I believe.
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Uglies by Scott Westerfield
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“An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” by Hank Green, and if she likes that there’s a sequel called “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor”. Both are great
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Two really good fairy tale retellings are Spinning silver (Rumplestilstkin) and Uprooted (girl getting kindapped to dragon tower) by Naomi Novik
This is an eclectic list
*The Princess Diaries*
*My Darling, My Hamburger* by Zindel
*Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack*
*I’d Tell You I Love You; but I’d Have to Kill You*
PERCY JACKSON
Tomorrow when the War began by Marsden
If she likes retellings of fairy tales, you might check out the *Lunar Chronicles* books by Marissa Myer.
If she likes romance, *The Summer I Turned Pretty* series by Jenny Han has been FLYING off the shelves with the girls at school.
I hope you find some great reads for your cousin!
The Hobbit it’s pretty short and it’s a classic. And if she likes it then you can get The Lord of the Rings for the next gift lol
[The Goose Girl](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2d9d85b9-6993-4ce7-8436-7383a2677eb5) by Shannon Hale
Since most people are hitting the fairy tale side, I’ll go the teen/gang route. Obviously, you could give her other Hinton works (i.e. *Rumble Fish*), or *Foxfire* by Joyce Carol Oates. *Memos From Purgatory*, by Harlan Ellison, is a memoir of being in a juvenile gang in the Forties, I believe.
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
“An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” by Hank Green, and if she likes that there’s a sequel called “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor”. Both are great