I would definitely recommend the Gone series by Michael Grant. It's relatively new, sci-fi/fantasy, and definitely dark. Also, literally anything by Tamora Pierce is a YES (and Pierce has a LOT of books).
Also, I'd rec The Prydain Chronicles because they are amazing (they're not super dark or anything, but considering how influential they were ... )
There's a great magical realism book called Spirits in the Wires which I LOVE. It's technically part of a ~world, but you can read it as a stand-alone (I did). I suppose it's a little more on the adult side, but I read it in 9th grade, so.
One series on my 'to read' list is the Mistborne trilogy. It's sci-fi/fantasy from what I know of it. I don't believe it's high fantasy, but it might be.
AND OF COURSE I MUST MENTION THE ABHORRSEN TRILOGY BY GARTH NIX WHICH IS AMAZING.
I only read books with strong female characters, so there you go.
Eta: Also, there's Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood which is AMAZING as well. And Idk if she'd like this, but there's the Frozen Awakening trilogy
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In seventh grade, I read everything I could get my greedy mitts on including anything they were producing for Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance.
These days, I'd hand an advanced 7th grader Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon series, Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion (though that may be a little mature for her but damn is it good.), possibly the Parasol Protectorate books by Gail Carriger.
I think I was also reading Terry Brooks and Patricia McKillip in seventh grade.
If she's in 7th grade i don't know that i'd bother sticking to YA - i was reading 'adult' books (er, not as a euphemism for smut) by then. Regardless, definitely anything by Gaiman, as well as the Dark is Rising series and Narnia, if she hasn't read those. But as much as YA has become an awesome genre these days (it wasn't when i was a kid, not really), i vote you don't limit yourself to it.
Holly Black's Tithe series Diane Duane's Young Wizards series Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon Lexicon series The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson Havemercy by Jaida Jones
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Also, I'd rec The Prydain Chronicles because they are amazing (they're not super dark or anything, but considering how influential they were ... )
There's a great magical realism book called Spirits in the Wires which I LOVE. It's technically part of a ~world, but you can read it as a stand-alone (I did). I suppose it's a little more on the adult side, but I read it in 9th grade, so.
One series on my 'to read' list is the Mistborne trilogy. It's sci-fi/fantasy from what I know of it. I don't believe it's high fantasy, but it might be.
AND OF COURSE I MUST MENTION THE ABHORRSEN TRILOGY BY GARTH NIX WHICH IS AMAZING.
I only read books with strong female characters, so there you go.
Eta: Also, there's Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood which is AMAZING as well. And Idk if she'd like this, but there's the Frozen Awakening trilogy ( ... )
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These days, I'd hand an advanced 7th grader Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon series, Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion (though that may be a little mature for her but damn is it good.), possibly the Parasol Protectorate books by Gail Carriger.
I think I was also reading Terry Brooks and Patricia McKillip in seventh grade.
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Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon Lexicon series
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Havemercy by Jaida Jones
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