My 13-year-old daughter is a voracious reader of all kinds of stuff; she’s read Harry Potter, the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Gregor the Overlander, Hunger Games, and lots of other fantasy or urban fantasy type books. She also reads Mary Higgins Clark and has read some true-crime books and other mystery-type books.
Also, she’s been heavily into vampires in the last couple years, reading books like Twilight, the Vampire Diaries, the Chronicles of Vladimir Todd, the House of Night, and other vampire series.
And of course she’s started watching Buffy and Angel (for years she mocked us [me, my wife, and our 11-year-old daughter, who watches and loves everything me and my wife watch] for watching something called “Buffy,” but when she finally decided to try it one day she got totally hooked, of course). But those aren’t books, which is what I want to ask about.
Anyway … where was I …
Oh yeah. Today she told me she’s tired of reading vampire books, and she wondered if there were any book series about werewolves instead. I told her the only werewolf-related book that immediately came to mind was the second Dresden Files book, Fool Moon, but that hardly qualified as a werewolf series. I told her she might like those books anyway, and she’s going to try them, but in the meantime I thought I’d ask… so …
Does anybody know of any good werewolf-themed book series that would be suitable for a 13-year-old girl?
Stuff without too many sex scenes and excessive profanity, preferably, since she is only 13, after all … but a few naughty words and naughty scenes are fine, I would imagine … okay, I just asked her if sex scenes and swearing were okay, and she gave me an exasperated look and said “Yes! I’m not a TWO-YEAR-OLD, you know!”
So, with all that in mind … any recommendations? If not werewolves, how about other supernatural/monster book series?