Here are our fiction picks for teenage girls. You might even be tempted...
We have compiled a top list of books for teen boys too, and for younger readers, ten books for children aged three to five, five to eight and eight to eleven.
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- Halo<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Halo-Zizou-Corder/dp/0141328304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302103640&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><strong>Halo</strong></a> by Zizou Corder (Puffin, £7.99)<br /> In ancient Greece, a baby is brought up by centaurs. As an adolescent, she's sold into slavery and escapes by disguising herself as a boy. But she ends up at the mercy of Spartan warriors, surrounded by war and violence. A novel by a mother-and-daughter partnership, Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young.</p>
- Little women<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Women-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199538115/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103733&sr=1-3" target="_blank"><strong>Little Women</strong></a> by Louisa May Alcott (Penguin, £12.99)<br /> Published in 1868, this is the story of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, who are growing up in New England, fatherless and impoverished, at the time of the Civil War. What makes the story so compelling is the sisters' very different characters. Memorable first line: 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.'</p>
- The white darkness<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Darkness-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/0192726188/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103774&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>The White Darkness</strong></a> by Geraldine McCaughrean (OUP, £5.99)<br /> Sym is a teenage girl who goes off with her mad Uncle Victor to the Antarctic. The only one who can save her is her imaginary friend, Captain Titus Oates (who left the ill-fated Scott expedition with the words, 'I am just going outside and I may be some time'). He's been dead for a century, but he's very much alive to her...</p>
- I capture the castle<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Capture-Castle-Vintage-Classics/dp/0099460874/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103802&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>I Capture the Castle</strong></a> by Dodie Smith (Vintage Classics, £7.99)<br /> Written in 1948, this is the diary of Cassandra, 17, who lives with her eccentric family in a dilapidated English castle. Two Americans, Neil and Simon, arrive to take possession of the estate on which the Mortmains live. A romantic, coming-of-age novel.</p>
- How I live now<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Live-Now-Meg-Rosoff/dp/0141318015/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103866&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>How I Live Now</strong></a> by Meg Rosoff (Puffin, £6.99)<br /> Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent to England from New York to spend the summer with her cousins Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper in a rambling English country house. But when war breaks out, life changes forever...</p>
- Witch child<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Witch-Child-Celia-Rees/dp/1408800268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103888&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>Witch Child</strong></a> by Celia Rees (Bloomsbury, £6.99)<br /> It's 1659 and Mary, the granddaughter of a witch, keeps a diary. She sees her grandmother hanged, is rescued by a stranger and sails to a Puritan community in America. There she gets caught up in witch trials that fuel suspicion, rumours and secrets.<br /> 1659.</p>
- Twilight<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Saga-Stephenie-Meyer/dp/1904233651/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103915&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>Twilight</strong></a> by Stephenie Meyer (Atom, £7.99)<br /> Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father. At school, Edward Cullen seems particularly unfriendly. The reason? He's a vampire and is trying to protect her from his hungry desires. Repressed passion continues in New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, so your teenager will be obsessed with self-denying bloodsuckers for weeks.</p>
- The bell jar<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bell-Jar-Sylvia-Plath/dp/0571226167/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103946&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>The Bell Jar</strong></a> by Sylvia Plath (Faber, £7.99)<br /> Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in 1963, is the story of Esther Greenwood, who longs to be a writer. She begins a summer internship at a magazine in New York City, but doesn't fit in. Back home, she suffers a mental breakdown, feeling as if she is trapped in a bell jar. A clever, witty and bleak portrayal of the pressures on a young woman in the 1950s.</p>
- Beloved<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beloved-Toni-Morrison/dp/0099760118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302103977&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><strong>Beloved</strong></a> by Toni Morrison (Vintage, £7.99)<br /> Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988, Beloved is the story of Sethe and her youngest daughter Denver as they try to rebuild their lives after running away from the Sweet Home plantation. Who is Beloved? What is Sethe's secret? A novel about mother-daughter relationships and the psychological impact of slavery.</p>
