29 Gifts for 13-Year-Old Girls

What goes in a keepsake shoebox after ticket stubs and notes from friends?

With the INSTAX Mini 12, it can be pictures she took herself, printed on the spot. At a friend's birthday party, one print goes to the guest of honor and a second one goes into the shoebox.

Sleepovers at her house come with a playlist, and the Beats Pill plays it out loud for the whole room from her phone or tablet.

The speaker is water resistant and small enough for a tote bag. The next morning it heads to the beach with her.

Sharing a bedroom makes quiet hard to come by.

Once she puts on these wireless Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones, noise canceling turns down her sister's chatter, and she gets some privacy without leaving the room.

The back pages of her notebook are full of song lyrics and quotes, written out with care.

These six Pitt Artist pens from Faber-Castell have chisel tips made for calligraphy strokes, in several ink colors. The next chorus she copies out will look lettered on purpose.

On days when soccer practice starts right after the last bell, her schoolbooks and gym clothes have to share one bag, and this Varsity Elite backpack from Nike has room for both.

Nothing about its sporty look reads as childish, which means it can follow her into high school.

Birthday cards, postcards and photos from the summer get a glowing spot on her wall with this LECLSTAR strand of fairy lights.

With clips all along the lights, new photos swap in within seconds, and the remote switches everything off once she is in bed.

A Little Wordy from Exploding Kittens is a word game for exactly two players, so all a lunchtime round takes is one friend and an empty spot at the cafeteria table.

Quick with puns and wordplay? Then she has the right instincts for every game.

On the walk to a friend's house, a teen who misses summer waves can ride the Razor RipStik Ripsurf.

Her love of the ocean carries onto the sidewalk, where the board moves as she sways her hips. Afterward, the Ripsurf leans by the front door until the next ride.

This LANEIGE Glaze Craze serum slips into the makeup bag of a teen who is starting to build her own beauty routine.

Mixing and matching looks is new to her, and a starter piece like this keeps the choice easy. Her finished look for a friend's birthday party gets its final touch from a quick swipe.

Late-night reading and drawing her favorite characters both happen on the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which holds her novels and comes with a pen for sketching on its color screen.

Jotting theories beside a chapter lets her argue with the plot as she goes.

A teen girl who sketches castles and imaginary kingdoms in her notebook can roam a whole realm on her Nintendo Switch 2.

She dreams up those lands on paper, and these classic Dragon Quest tales let her walk through a realm like hers.

Blu-ray box sets fit a teen who rewatches her favorite anime season from the opening episode every time.

Owning the discs lets her replay a beloved arc anytime, with this Sony player hooked up to her own TV.

This mic sits on a teen girl's hoodie and catches her narration for the book review clips she films.

At her age she shares opinions on camera, and noise canceling keeps her words clear over a sibling's music. Her finished review goes up with each word of her verdict on the plot easy to follow.

Podcasts can ride along on her evening dog walks with the SHOKZ OpenMove.

These open-ear headphones use bone conduction, so she hears each episode and still hears the street around her. They are sweatproof too, which helps on nights the walk turns into a jog.

If you know a teen who always gets the scuffed spare pad, a DualSense of her own changes that.

Co-op sessions with friends fill her free evenings, and owning a pad means she plays every round instead of waiting. The DualSense waits on her shelf beside the console for the next rematch.

Shower songs ring out from this Soundcore speaker on the bathroom shelf, picked by a teen from her own phone each morning.

Her taste in music is something she shows off now, and it belongs out loud rather than tucked inside earbuds. The get-ready mix she curates gains a new track every week.

During a weekend tournament with her squad, a teen PC player wants every click to come from a mouse that is hers.

The Logitech G G305 Lightspeed is built for play, which matches how seriously she treats her squad's strategy. Her winning screenshot from the final round ends up pinned in the team chat.

Herd Mentality turns knowing the other players into a way to win: someone reads a prompt aloud, and the aim is to answer the way most of the group does.

A good read on how her friends think gives her a head start, and this travel edition is made for taking on a road trip.

Paris tops her someday list, and this Ravensburger 3D puzzle lets her build the Eiffel Tower long before she stands under the real one.

Its 216 pieces click together into a standing tower, a souvenir from a city she has not visited yet and a reason to keep planning.

When the girl on your list thinks several moves ahead, Faraway gives that habit a table to play on.

She likes contests where each decision counts, and here every choice she makes adds to her total at the finish. Her winning score goes on a sticky note on the fridge, the number her friends try to top.

If the teen on your list keeps score at every family gathering, this strategy game lets her beat parents and siblings fairly.

Thinking ahead is a habit of hers, and here it counts for more than who has played longest. The board gets packed away only after the rematch.

Codenames splits a group of friends into two teams, and each team's spymaster gives one-word clues that point teammates to their own words on the table.

After a school play, her living room has plenty of players for a round, and switching spymasters lets every friend take a turn at the clues.

Hosting friends and a love of LEGO belong together for a teen whose house fills up with classmates on Friday nights.

She likes running the evening, and a brick contest gives her something hands-on to set out when friends arrive. Her wobbliest model of the night ends up on her shelf as a trophy.

Bepuzzled's Infinity puzzle is meant for a teen who flips straight to the riddles in any magazine and never peeks at the answers.

That stubborn streak moves from paper into her hands, which turn it over and over until the trick gives way. Once solved, the brainteaser sits on her desk as proof she cracked it alone.

For the teen on your list who styles her hair before school, the ghd All-Rounder is a brush that belongs to her.

Her morning routine is hers to run now, and a paddle brush pairs with the dryer or straightener she uses.

Doodles crowd every margin of her school notebooks, so this journal kit gives that art a private book she designs and decorates herself.

It is a good match if she still enjoys a craft afternoon. Before lights out, she can sketch the outfit she wore and note who she saw that day.

At a school dance, a girl who never leaves the floor can carry her phone and house key in this purse.

Now that she goes out with friends on her own, her things ride on her instead of in mom's tote. Between songs, she can pull out lip gloss for a quick touch-up, then head back to the floor.

A London skyline model suits a teen girl who devours novels set in that city and spots its landmarks on every cover.

Those places she pictures between chapters take shape in her own hands, at whatever pace she likes. The finished cityscape then holds its spot on the shelf beside those well-thumbed paperbacks.