What's a good tween girl magazine option these days?
There doesn't seem to be anything equivalent to past favorites like American Girl, Moxie Girl, or Discovery Girl anymore. Finding a comparable print magazine option for tween girls today leaves people missing those classic publications with no clear equivalent in sight.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- The most recent one is from October 2026.
- This comes up 16.6× more often in r/Parenting than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Subscribing to alternative options like Kazoo, National Geographic Kids, Girls Life, The Week Junior, or science-focused magazines instead.Did this help you?
- 2Printing off articles on paper despite the cost and lack of colorDid this help you?
- 3Using online reading toolsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“There doesn't seem to be anything equivalent to that anymore! AG was so good! What's a good tween girl magazine option these days?”source ↗
“Man I wish Moxie Girl was still around. I loved that magazine in the 90’s!!”source ↗
“I used to LOVE Discovery Girl magazine. I wish they still made that for her!!”source ↗
“I don’t have any suggestions unfortunately, but man do I miss AG Magazine too.”source ↗
“Reading online is not the same, and using online tools can quickly become a hassle for teachers and a distraction for the kids.”source ↗
“Printing off articles uses a lot of paper, feels less "official" and the kids don't get to see the same colorful pictures, maps, and diagrams that are usually found in textbooks.”source ↗
Where this came up
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