Girls

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So here's an eye opener and a bummer

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Veronica Roth (Divergent series) is very popular right. Although I personally don't think she's as strong a writer as Suzanne Collins, to whom she's oft-compared, the trilogy is catching interest among young adults and I found it to be pretty decent

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Oh yes...the Bronte sisters.

[zaftig_darling]

Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park - and Eleanor is a very strong female character if you need character names); Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss); Louise Rennison (Confessions of Georgia Nicholson, and surely you must know this author because your writing style and hers and similarly delightfully wacky in the best possible way); Donna Tartt; Anne Rice (do kids still read her? She was my favorite in high school but that was 25 years ago); Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum series); Cornelia Funke (The Thief Lord); Marie Lu (Prodigy (she is currently my 14 year old son's favorite author); Lauren Myracle (ttyl); Sarah Dessen; Ann Brashares.

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Paula Danziger, I loved her when I was a teenager, that was a while ago (ahem) but I'm sure she still works.

Charlaine Harris who wrote the Sookie Stackhouse series among others.

Mary Shelley.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden is my favourite book.

Joanne Harris wrote Chocolat, another of my favourite books.