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+1 for Iain Banks. The Crow Road is great, but quite long. The Wasp Factory is shorter, though maybe more violent/disturbing themes.
"Speaks perfect English" isn't the same as reading it, and personally I'd aim for something she would enjoy (hence my Zoella suggestion) rather than something that would be "educational". My daughter also suggests John Green as a possibility.Also Gayle Forman and Rainbow Rowell, apparently.
IMO, People should stop encouraging girls to read fluffy shit that fills their heads full of fairies and princes.
John Greens stuff is "feeling porn". Ugh.
IMO, People should stop encouraging girls to read fluffy shit that fills their heads full of fairies and princes.
So basically you've got exactly NFI about the books I suggested, then?
Just clicking on the first three [url= https://www.whsmith.co.uk/dept/zoella-book-club-2016 ]here[/url], one is about a transsexual, another is a horror story, and the third is about a girl getting over the suicide of her best friend. Still, the fourth is a teen romance, so you're nearly there.
Not the Zoella ones, but Green I do. His best selling one - The Faulit in Our Stars is essentially voyeuristic sick-lit.
Amanda Hardy is the new girl at school. Like everyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is holding back. Even from Grant, the guy she's falling in love with. Amanda has a secret. At her old school, she used to be called Andrew. And secrets always have a way of getting out...
ZOMG - like totes earth shattering fiction that causes you to question the world around you...right there.....that.
If I ever have a daughter that reads stuff like that, I'll send her to a Medicines Sans Frontiers camp for the summer.
ZOMG - like totes earth shattering fiction that causes you to question the world around you...right there.....that.If I ever have a daughter that reads stuff like that, I'll send her to a Medicines Sans Frontiers camp for the summer.
"Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy," cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. "That's it! You are never to fancy."
Steinbeck or Syria, girl, make your choice.
The Windsinger or pretty much anything by Garth Nix, Sabriel would be a great start. If Pratchet, I'd start with a Hat full of Sky.
The Windsinger or pretty much anything by Garth Nix, Sabriel would be a great start. If Pratchet, I'd start with a Hat full of Sky. I'd struggle with the 'older' books, (the previous generation of O level English Lit), I know it's very personal but things have moved on.
I really enjoyed the post-apocalyptic page-turner Station Eleven by Emily St. John. I think teen me would have also enjoyed it.
It was popular with book clubs, so there are plenty of discussions to be found.
There are a number of goood recommendations here, but foremost, any book for her to speak about successfully should appeal to her as a reader. Otherwise any response would be a regurgitation of accepted interpretations, and a worthless exercise, whenever for assessment or not.
There are a lot of sci-fi/ dystopian recommendations, which are an excellent basis for a presentation, but historical novels are also really good if that appeals. What is her reading preference like? Is she a reader habitually? Also, how good is her English? Is is perfectly fluent conversationally, in a very colloquial manner or can she deal with varied registers? Without knowing her, I would generally recommend the following, all of which raise good themes and have identifiable female characters which she may relate to?
Weaker language/reader- Northern Lights Trilogy, Phillip Pullman or Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd.
Stronger reader/ varied language- The Knife of Never Letting Go/ Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro.
Habitual reader, adept with language and new terms- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.
Above all, teachers would probably want to see personal insight and enthusiasm in a reader rather than a reeling-off of interpretations from crib sites, so aim for appeal to her over anything else.
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Rather dated but excellent reading means Nevil Shute. So easy to discuss on many levels.
IMO, People should stop encouraging girls to read fluffy shit that fills their heads full of fairies and princes.
Hmmmm, right.
Perhaps you imagine that Catherine Webb writes girly twee fluffy books, because, well, she's a girl; obvious is obvious, innit.
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Perhaps you ought to have a close look at what people are suggesting, and then have a stern word with yourself about your obvious prejudices.