Yep, I was going to say, "Sounds like a job for remedial Tamora Pierce!"
Hmm, good girl-centric YA...maybe Garth Nix's series that starts with Sabriel (some colonialism, yes, and the usual round of "oh look we're all sekritly royalty," but still holding up for me on reread), or...if she likes comics, Runaways is pretty good (stick to the stuff that's not Joss Whedon, and realize that there is a certain amount of lesbianism involved, but as I recall it's off-camera)...oh, a lot of Patricia McKillip should be approachable for someone who can get through Twilight, and none of that has any on-screen screwing.
I don't know; I prune Herself's reading for violence, not sex, which I don't think is the parental norm, and she's still not reading many chapter books, so I feel like my recs are kind of out-of-date. I really should do a long recs post about comics for early grade readers, though, because boy howdy, I have been through most of what's on the market in the last year....
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Hmm, good girl-centric YA...maybe Garth Nix's series that starts with Sabriel (some colonialism, yes, and the usual round of "oh look we're all sekritly royalty," but still holding up for me on reread), or...if she likes comics, Runaways is pretty good (stick to the stuff that's not Joss Whedon, and realize that there is a certain amount of lesbianism involved, but as I recall it's off-camera)...oh, a lot of Patricia McKillip should be approachable for someone who can get through Twilight, and none of that has any on-screen screwing.
I don't know; I prune Herself's reading for violence, not sex, which I don't think is the parental norm, and she's still not reading many chapter books, so I feel like my recs are kind of out-of-date. I really should do a long recs post about comics for early grade readers, though, because boy howdy, I have been through most of what's on the market in the last year....