Book suggestions for a smart "very online" tween

Post date: 2025-02-18 05:42:22

My 6th grader has been struggling to find books to read this year for her nightly reading and we'd love your suggestions on books that might resonate with her.

That reading seems to need be fiction (although it seems to me biographies might work), because the daily writing homework around it is based on a general theme each week (senses, minor characters, conflict, etc.) but other than that there doesn't seem to be have been a lot of direction. (She doesn't like this teacher very much so I don't get a lot of information.) She used to be really into reading, but's its fallen by the wayside this year and ideally we'd respark that as well.

She's newly twelve, very sharp, funny, argumentative at home (but her others go out of their way to say how much they love her in class). She's into playing music and singing (rock and musicals), and following her favorite musicians, photography, current politics, political debate. Although this wasn't true in the past right now she's really not into fantasy or magic, and definitely nothing of a romantic nature, together those two restrictions things eliminate a lot of what comes up when you search for young adult. I'm going to go through some battle of the books lists today and see what we might find that she hasn't ready, but would love any other ideas, thanks! Physical and ebooks are ok (although I'm trying to mostly use her kindle for library loans vs. buying from Amz.)

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