Here I go recommending Garth Nix again, but I first read the Old Kingdom trilogy when I was about thirteen and it affected me so strongly I still re-read them regularly more than twenty years later. The way the books presented death as a natural progression of life - something to be saddened by but ultimately to be accepted - I think influenced me beyond what I really realised at the time. Also the concept that some things are bigger than you, but you can still make a difference - that's a message worth hearing.
Here I go recommending Garth Nix again, but I first read the Old Kingdom trilogy when I was about thirteen and it affected me so strongly I still re-read them regularly more than twenty years later. The way the books presented death as a natural progression of life - something to be saddened by but ultimately to be accepted - I think influenced me beyond what I really realised at the time. Also the concept that some things are bigger than you, but you can still make a difference - that's a message worth hearing.