Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers?

I was going to suggest Gödel, Escher, Bach when you mentioned she was interested in art, and were hoping to find a technical book for her.

Charles Petzold's phenomenal classic CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software?

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" By Thomas S. Kuhn

She might find inspiration in Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters"

look at Darrell Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics"

Physics for Future Presidents is a great book

"Galápagos" By Kurt Vonnegut (Fiction, but related) (I loved this book, but it's not for everyone I suppose. A couple of my friends didn't like it.)

"Napoleon's Buttons" By Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson

you might consider "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin.

Animals in Translation and Fifty-Nine Story Crisis look really good.

Animals in Translation and Fifty-Nine Story Crisis look really good.

"Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History" by Stephen Jay Gould