Audible book suggestions for 12 year old girl

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Hi! I am so loving Audible and would love for my daughter to listen to audiobooks. I just want to make sure the first book we pick is good because if it isn't she will never listen again! She is 12, she loves movies and is a good reader but will go a while without reading, then quickly devour a book. She really likes the dystopian society type themes....Hunger Games, City of Ember, Insurgence, that sort of thing. But it doesn't have to be that theme, just not something that is "babyish." A strong female character is always good. Any ideas?
 
All of Harry Potter is finally on there, and they're wonderfully narrated! I'm just almost finished with the last book so I can recommend them all. Only a few voices are a little bit irritating but they grew on me.
Howl's Moving Castle is another fantasy series that has a wonderful narration. LOTR is a little dry.
Obviously my recs are all in the fantasy genre, but that's mostly what I listen to!
 
Thank you! My daughter read and watched all the Harry Potter movies. Would the audiobook ad to the HP experience?
 
Thank you! My daughter read and watched all the Harry Potter movies. Would the audiobook ad to the HP experience?

Yes they do! Jim Dale adds such depth to the characters. He has a distinct voice for each character and its spectacular!
 

Harry Potter was my first thought as well. Jim Dale does an excellent job of narrating the books, so much so that even though I had listened to the books on cassette and then cd, I bought and listened to them on Audible last year.
 
Is she into fantasy? I'm reading the Mortal Instruments series (I know, I know, but I love YA) and it features a strong female character. There is a boy she's infatuated with but it isn't the main story line (like awful Twilight). Takes place modern day, mostly in NYC. Vampires, werewolves, warlocks, faeries, and demons. Very exciting and interesting. The author does a great job describing everything, so it'd probably be a good audio book.
 
In my house if someone is cooking or cleaning, there is a generally a book on tape going -
I think I've listened to all of Harry Potter at least 20 times.

The "Bloody Jack" series by LA Meyer might be good for your daughter - they are amazingly well read. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, its great historical fiction. Very exciting (and kinda distopian, if you were a poor kid in that day and age!)

Main character is a girl who pretends to be a boy to serve as a ship's boy in the British Navy, but that is just the start - she goes on to travel all over the world, spending time in post-revolutionary war America and lots of other places over the course of the series. Great characters (author was a high-school teacher, its obvious that he really understands the strengths and weaknesses of teenage girls).

They are a little rough in parts (battle scenes, a potential sexual predator, some language) but if she has already read the Hunger Games, I'd expect she'd be fine. I've listened to the entire series (another big fan of YA Lit), and I thought they offered a lot of opportunities to talk about important issues with my daughter.

The very beginning is extremely dark (I wasn't sure I would like the first book based on the first chapter or two), but I wound up loving the whole series - there are 12 of them.

I never read any of them - listened to the entire series on Audible. I read really fast, and tend to race through books I like. I read the entire Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire on the day it came out and then had to wait years for the next installment - after that, I started listening to books I really liked instead of reading them - they lasted much longer!
 
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Awesome! Thank you for the ideas. I am going to share with her and see what she thinks.

I don't wash dishes, clean the windows, do laundry etc without an audiobook now! I love them!
 
So this recommendation may be on the young side, but I *loved* listening to Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure (and there's an entire book series). The story is fun, but the narrarator is fabulous! I can still hear some of the character voices in my mind. And, I think that the narrator can make or break the "book". Anyhow, I got the book on CD from our library probably 5 or 6 years ago for a trip and I remember being totally engaged with it.
 
The 5th Wave series by Rick Yancey sounds right up her alley. I recently listened to the audiobook of the first book and really liked it.
 
Just a heads up if you don't have a subscription with all the books on amazon. If you buy the book and then have to add the audible, pay attention to the price of it. Alot of them start at 7.99 and up per book to listen. I was like yikes ouch. At that price I have to really walk away for that price per book. And I don't read enough myself to pay the monthly fee for it.
 
She might like the Rick Riordan books.

My .02 about the Rick Riordan books on audible - I really didn't like way the reader did the first of the Percy Jackson books - almost kept me from reading the rest of the series. I did enjoy the books once I actually read them! DD really liked those in about 5/6th grade, then she grew out of them.
 
We do lots of Audible!
Some favorites of my kids have been
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
The Grimm series by Adam Gidwitz
Mr. Lemoncello series by Chris Grabenstein
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
 
I love audiobooks -- here are a few your daughter might be interested in!

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Flame in the Mist by Renée Adieh
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Graceling by Kristen Cashore
Legend by Marie Lu
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
 
I am looking into all of these, THANK YOU all so much for the suggestions. I love the budget board folks!

I got the first Harry Potter a couple days ago and I listened to the first couple chapters and its wonderful. My daughter will love this, I am about to download to her phone. I will let her listen to some samples of the suggestions and see what she picks :)
 
Also look into the library. I can download from my library using overdrive. No cost.
 
My .02 about the Rick Riordan books on audible - I really didn't like way the reader did the first of the Percy Jackson books - almost kept me from reading the rest of the series. I did enjoy the books once I actually read them! DD really liked those in about 5/6th grade, then she grew out of them.

That's the exact opposite for us we enjoyed the first reader more.
 














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