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DianaC
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I’ve done some searching here for books and have found a few that look interesting for my 14 yr old dd. I’m particularly looking for “pleasure reading” books.
A few that I found in searching 4real that are new to us:
Awakening by Claudia McAdams
Arms of Love by Carmen Marcoux
Between the Forest and the Hills by Polland
Many on Maria Rioux’s 9th grade reading list look interesting, also.
Does anyone have any favorites that they read at this age (or their dd read at this age) that they would recommend?
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My now-20-year-old daughter loved a book called They Loved to Laugh -- I can't remember the author right now, but it's a Bethlehem Book. She liked some Meriol Trevor, too, though I can't think of titles (and I'm not at home, so I can't go remind myself!). Oh, Sun Faster, Sun Slower. I know she read and liked that one.
She was also moving into more serious literature like Jane Eyre at that stage -- Jane Eyre was a great favorite, and I think she probably really began reading Jane Austen at 14-ish as well.
She sort-of-kind-of liked Regina Doman's fairy-tale series -- Shadow of the Bear, etc. Friends of hers really loved them, though.
I'll have to look at her shelves to jog my memory!
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Caution on Regina Doman.. good little books, my oldest likes them.. but they get into fairly mature subject matter especially Rapunzal Let Down
Another fairy tale like series is the Books of Bayern (starting with The Good Girl) by Shannon Hale
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Love, love, love Meriol Trevor. Her Sun Slower was one of my favorites growing up.
What has your daughter read, because I could recommend loads of books!!!!
What Sally said was me...I started reading more classic literature starting around that age.
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At that age I started reading some books by religious...part of the discerning process, but most was just because I enjoyed them.
If she hasn't read it, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" and the sequels by Maria von Trapp.
Shepherd's Tartan by Sister Mary Jean Dorcy
A Right to Be Merry and Strange Gods Before Me by Mother Mary Francis
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Jenn, I would love for you to give some more book suggestions for teenage girls!
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If you can find a copy, The Captive Princess by Maxine Shore is an excellent work of historical fiction set in the 1st Century A.D. about the first Christians. Very, very good.
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She has read Sun Slower, Sun Faster and They Loved to Laugh. I bought a pile of Bethlehem books a while back on sale and she has truly enjoyed working through those.
She has also read The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (recommended here!)
She has started reading some Jane Austen, (Emma) but I will point her to more of those. She just read Wuthering Heights, but did not enjoy it. Then we watched the film and I could see why. I have the Elizabeth Gaskell books in mind, as well as recommendations for Elizabeth Goudge. I will look into the Mother Mary Francis books as well.
I’ve seen recommendations for Regina Doman in my searches here, and think I may get the first one. She has read Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy and liked it, so I will look at more of those.
She is not so much a Fantasy reader, as she is a “strong female lead” and "historical fiction" reader. She also now enjoys books about high school age people, particularly dealing with today’s issues through a Catholic lens - she just read the Catholic Reluctantly (John Paul II High) Series.
She has quite a bit of heavy reading assigned for schoolwork this year, but she is an avid reader and I want to have a good pile of pleasure reading readily available.
Thank you all for your recommendations!
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Does she like mysteries? My teen dd's have enjoyed Agatha Christie and there are a number of other series with female leads. If you manage to find Agatha Christie's _Autobiography_ and her account of her second husband's excavations _Come tell me how you Live_ they are also well worth reading.
And don't overlook so-called children's authors, a good book is always worth reading and many of these authors have written books for older audiences.
My sixteen year old dd has been reading through my collections of L.M. Montgomery's short stories which I bought when in university. Louisa May Alcott of _Little Woman_ fame also wrote books for older audiences, although you would want to pre-read them, her _Hospital Sketches_ autobiographical sketches of working as a civil war nurse are of particular interest.
Older books also have the advantage of built-in historical interest and memoirs and travelogues can be enjoyable leisure reading. I've informally introduced my oldest to Catherine Parr Traill (of Canadian interest) and I've just finished a book by Emily Carr (I'd discuss the problematical and now illegal aspects of her passion for taking pets from the wild but it's otherwise a pleasant read).
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Here are some my girls have liked at that age. It's a real smorgasbord representing 3 very different personalities!:
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Winged watchman
Pride & Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility
Any Sherlock Holmes
Agatha Christie mysteries
Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (mystery about Richard III)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Phantom of the Opera - Leroux
Zorro (not the Allende version-which I love but most def NOT for kids!)
Cheaper by the Dozen, &sequel, Bells on their Toes - Gilbreth
Meet the Malones - Weber
The Smile -Jo Napoli (about Mona Lisa)
My Family and Other Animals
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone with the Wind
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Three Musketeers
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