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Children's book lists go from Snuggle Puppy to The Stand. That's fine, but as an auntie, it's hard to know where in the spectrum a particular child might fall. So this list is of books you or children you know loved at around age thirteen.

As part of this series:
Books for one-year-olds
Books for two-year-olds
Books for three-year-olds
Books for four-year-olds
Books for five-year-olds
Books for six-year-olds
Books for seven-year-olds
Books for eight-year-olds
Books for nine-year-olds
Books for ten-year-olds
Books for eleven-year-olds
Books for twelve-year-olds
Books for thirteen-year-olds
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message 1: by Asoooma (new)

Asoooma aljazzar Isabel wrote: "Good list but some of these books are WAY too young."
yeah they are


message 2: by Gemma (new)

Gemma I like this list.


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Gemma wrote: "I like this list."

Me too. :)


message 4: by Anne (last edited May 28, 2024 09:21AM) (new)

Anne As a thirteen-year-old, I was reading Dickens, Austen, and Wilde, Tolkien and Wodehouse, Lewis and Scot Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stephenson and Charles Kingsley, Jane Eyre, Tennyson and Poe, just to name a few. But to each his own, I suppose . . .


message 5: by ElleLovesBooks (new)

ElleLovesBooks Too young


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

Anne wrote: "As a thirteen-year-old, I was reading Dickens, Austen, and Wilde, Tolkien and Wodehouse, Lewis and Scot Fitzgerald, Robert Louis Stephenson and Charles Kingsley, Jane Eyre, Tennyson and Poe, just t..."

Most thirteen-year-olds dont have the attention span or the patience to read classics.


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