THank you quix. I hope you don't mind one more question.
Would Chronicles of Narnia be good for a 13 year old female? :)
Or would you suggest something else?
Probably would do fine.
But it might depend a lot on how they were introduced.
I'd start by talking about THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Then I'd comment that the author of TLOTR often met with a group of other writers and philosophers at least weekly to discuss life and their writings. And, that one of the writers who met with Tolkien--I think it was usually at Lewis's house, actually--not certain--one of those other writers was C.S. Lewis who also wrote a fantasy.
And, like Tolkien's LOTR's Lewis' fantasy is a wonderfully imaginative, creative, beautiful allegory about good and evil.
That at one level it can be taken as a children's book. And on another level, like LOTR, it can be taken as a kind of summary or manual about life--because it illustrates so many key principles in living life overcomingly.
Anyway--I'm sure you can figure out a way to introduce it which would increase it's attractiveness to a 13 year old.
THX 4 asking.