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Originally Posted by seajewel
Everything by Diana Wynne Jones. Howl's Moving Castle, the Chrestomanci series. They are excellent. Not vampire--more regular fantasy, Harry Potter-esque.
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Yeah, DW Jones is a good suggestion. I wish I could think of some vampire books other than Twilight for her but I think she is too young for Anne Rice or, for that matter, for the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. I lost interest in those after the first few books, anyway.
If she is into fantasy and hasn't read the classics, she should. Tolkien and Lewis, of course, but also Le Guin. Le Guin's
A Wizard of Earthsea and
The Tombs of Atuan are excellent. The first is about a boy who goes to a wizard school that makes Hogwarts look like Pre-K. The second, set in the same world, is about a young girl being raised as a priestess. The wizard from the first book comes into play as well. Great stuff.
Oh, there is also George MacDonald. She might like
The Light Princess and also
The Priness and Curdie and
The Princess and the Goblin. These are in the public domain at Gutenberg.org, so she could eRead them for free.