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Barb.b
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DD is an avid reader - she has read so much we sometimes get stumped at what to read next. Give me lists of decent (no vampire, romance or stuff) for an 8th grade girl!
Thanks, Barb
added - this isn't for "school" but for on her own reading, which she does a ton of!
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Betsy-Tacy high school books (by Maud Hart Lovelace...my favorites)
Donna Jo Napoli's For the Love of Venice and Daughter of Venice
John Christopher's Tripods trilogy (SF, and compelling, but completely teen-friendly)
The Alvin Fernald series by Clifford B. Hicks (Alvin is an inventor...hilarious series)
Homer Price
Anything by Margaret Leighton (long out of print, but you might luck out)
Mark Twain's short essays (The Awful German Language, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County) and his bio of Joan of Arc, plus Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Anything from the Anne of Green Gables Series (just in case she's missed it)
Farewell to Manzanar (this Japanese internment camp is in my home state, and I have been there more than once)
Letters to Miss Breed (another book about internment of Japanese-Americans during WII, very compelling)
Lepanto (by G. K. Chesterton...my son, who hates poetry, loved it)
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The Emily novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables) - Emily of the New Moon, Emily's Quest, Emily Climbs
The Texas Panhandle Series by Loula Grace Erdman (Bethlehem Books) - The Wind Blows Free, The Wide Horizon ,The Good Land
Loula Grace Erdman was a prolific writer and wrote several other novels, particularly about settling the Texas panhandle. Her biography is very interesting.
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Rose In Bloom by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women and others by LMA if she's missed those)
Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter (and all the Gene Stratton Porter novels which are so rich in natural history!!)
Here is a list of Porter's works. We have been collecting and enjoying many, or as many as we can. I think all of them but a couple are out of print, and some of them are very hard to find. My 14 yo is really enjoying some of her Natural History works this year alongside the novels!
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The Song of the Cardinal, 1903
Freckles, 1904
At the Foot of the Rainbow, 1907
A Girl of the Limberlost, 1909
The Harvester, 1911
Laddie, 1913
Michael O’Halloran, 1915
A Daughter of the Land, 1918
The Keeper of the Bees, 1921
Her Father’s Daughter, 1921
The White Flag, 1923
The Magic Garden, 1927
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What I Have Done with Birds, 1907
Birds of the Bible, 1909
Music of the Wild, 1910
Moths of the Limberlost, 1912
Birds of the Limberlost, 1914
Homing with the Birds, 1919
Wings, 1923
Tales You Won’t Believe, 1925
After the Flood, 1912
POETRY AND ESSAYS
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Morning Face, 1916
The Fire Bird, 1922
Euphoria 1923
Jesus of the Emerald, 1923
Let Us Highly Resolve, 1927
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What type of books does she like? what have been some past favorites?
When you say "no vampires, romance or stuff" are you talking about the ones that glorify the above or any books that have gentle romance, people falling in love (not heavy kissing etc) or that have fantasy creatures even if they're properly good or evil and treated as such?
My 14 yr old reads a huge variety of books.. many of which have some gentle falling in love romance without it being what the book is about and you might get a kiss or two before the marriage and the reader stays on the correct side of the bedroom door after the marriage. She's also read a couple of Christian books that border on horror.. weird creepy stuff but in the end all explainable.. think how in scooby doo the monster/ghost always ended up a hoax. And she's read fantasy adventure books, some with weird creatures. She's also read many of the books already mentioned. She's read an adapted version of Jane Eyre because we happened to have it on hand. And I'm not sure if she's read Pride and Prejudice or not, I know she borrowed a copy. I can't keep up with her historical reading.. if it's in the house (things like biography or childhood of famous americans and books I buy specifically for giving a feel of the era) she's probably read it. 
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