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Several of these are also on the (newly updated!) Books Boys Love list, and my own teenage son has enjoyed a whole lot of the books on this one.Welcome to Novel Effect - an award-winning app that follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s story book and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices. But there’s probably something here that will pique her interest!Īnd remember that these books are not just for girls. Of course, every girl won’t love every book on this list. If a quick google search of “books for teen girls” turns up books you’re not excited about handing to your own tween or teen, I bet you’ll feel differently about the list below. This can be a real problem for parents who are looking for good, rich, engaging stories for their teen daughters. Again, this is not true for all YA books. They are, rather, a kind of story (usually a coming-of-age story featuring a teenage protagonist, often pushing boundaries of what’s appropriate for young readers). I’ll tell you more about what I mean by that soon, but for now suffice it to say: YA books are not a level you need to pass through to get from middle grade novels (like the Chronicles of Narnia or Little House on the Prairie) to adult novels. That’s because YA is a genre, not a reading level. …if you’re a family that loves the kinds of books we recommend at RAR, you likely struggle to find what you’re looking for on the YA shelves. There are some gems in there, to be sure (and we’ve included several in our list below!), but on the whole… I'd like to receive the free email course.Įven if your daughter is happily reading through stacks of books in her younger years, she may suddenly find herself at the age when it feels like she “should” be choosing books from the Young Adult (YA) section of the library or bookstore.īut…have you been to the YA section of your library or bookstore lately?