She is an avid reader. She reads at 5-6th grade level according to her teacher. She just completed Lemony Snickets. Please let me know any ideas (she read Harry Potter all the way through 5 times).
Thanks!
Some of the older books are timeless:
Anne of Green Gables series (L.M. Montgomery)
Black Stallion series (Walter Farley)
Nancy Drew mysteries
I'm with Little House on the Prairie. My daughter loves the Box Car Children we have the whole series. You may want to try some of the American Girl series. My daughter read Addie and loved it. I plan to get Kaya who is American Indian next. You can get them on Amazon. Happy Reading.
As a reading specialist, I always warn parents that if a child is reading two or more grade levels above you want to be really careful about content. There are some 5th-6th grade level books that I would not want my 9 year old reading just because of the maturity level of the content. You can start seeing some pretty mature topics showing up.
Octavia Spencer has a new series that I think she just started. My daughter and I just read the first one--Randi Rhodes Ninja Detective: Case of the Missing Time Capsule. We loved it.
Not part of a series, but my daughter and I both loved El Deafo by Cece Bell. It is a graphic novel, which I usually hate, but I really liked this one.
A lot of my students are reading the Baby Mouse series. A lot of them love Percy Jackson books. The Sisters Grimm series is good.
My daughter likes the How to Train Your Dragon series. They are very different from the movies and really are nothing like the movies. They are a lot funnier than I was expecting.
I loved the first book in The Sixty-Eight Rooms series and want to read the rest of the. A little like Magic Treehouse.
Love, love, love the book Escape from Mr. Limoncello' Library!! Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but in a library. Any Roal Dahl books are great.
I loved Keeper of Lost Cities! I thought it was a lot like Harry Potter. I haven't had a chance to read the 2nd book yet.
My daughter devours the Boxcar Children. She also has enjoyed the Judy Blume series that starts with Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Any Judy Blume is good--but some might have content that could be too mature.
My daughter enjoyed the Little House series too. Along that same line is Bo at Ballard Creek about a little girl growing up in Alaska during the gold rush. There are two books now.
Chronicles of Narnia are great. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are good. I loved Anne of Green Gables! Try some of the older books. Harriet the Spy is great. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
I love books by Christopher Paul Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy is my favorite. But I also really like Mighty Miss Malone. I also like most of Kate DiCamillo's books.
I could probably go on all night, but i really need to quit!
Little House on the Prairie. I still read those as an adult sometimes!
Percy Jackson series
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle (it's actually a quintet although the first two are by far the best)
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - start with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe NOT the Magician's Nephew (they have been renumbered in some series)
The Little House series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sisters Grimm was a huge hit
Maybe the series by C.S. Lewis? He wrote the fantasy series Chronicle of Narnia and other books.
Has she read the Wrinkle in Time series? It's old and will likely be an easy read for her, but the main character is a girl and...there's physics!
My oldest son read the Percy Jackson series at age 9. He loved it and he also started reading Greek mythology because of it.
He also liked Ambassador by William Alexander, the Amazing Benedict Society books, the Lord of the Rings series starting with the Hobbit, the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon), Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library, and recently, we really enjoyed the Wings of Fire Series by Tui T Sutherland.
I read a lot of these with him - and have read all of the listed books except the Inheritance Cycle ones. They are all suitable for a 9 year old.
I'd recommend Narnia or the maybe the Percy Jackson series
My son loves the Percy Jackson series right now.
Does it have to be a series? There are many good books out there.
My daughter (just finishing 3rd grade) liked the Narina series. She has also been reading some that are not a part of a series. Her favorite was Charlotte's Web and she is currently reading The Hatchet. She has some others that she hasn't started yet that are a Disney series, Kingdom Keepers.
Visit your local library and let her look around, she will find plenty to choose from.
The Hunger Games, War Horse, The Giver
My daughter loved anything by Emiy Rodda like Deltora Quest series (13 books total), Warriors about a society made up of clans of cats, and The Fairy Realm about a girl who finds another world behind her grandmother's hedge. She also really loved Guardians of Ga'Hoole (movie about it was poor, books were great). Another series called Dealing with Dragons she really enjoyed.
My daughter is a 3rd grader and a huge reader too. Her recent favorites are the Percy Jackson Books, The School for Good and Evil & The Land of Stories. The last two both have new books coming out shortly.
Catwings?
The Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett (Starts with Wee Free Men)?
Dealing with Dragons?
Wrinkle in Time?
Phantom Tollbooth?
oh, go with the classics! there are so many wonderful ones that tend to get bypassed these days. the narnia books. anne of green gables. the black stallion. a wrinkle in time. the marguerite henry books. the lord of the rings (maybe a bit early yet, but she can do the hobbit!)
:) khairete
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The "Warriers" by Erin Hunter, series about cats. My daughter is 11 & has been reading it since she was nine. She loves it! Barnes & Noble has a whole section with this series.
How about the classic "Little House On The Prairie". A semi-autobiographical account of the author's childhood, Laura Ingalls Wilder. A great read for all ages.
The Sharon Creech books are great. I LOVE walk two moons... of course, where the red fern grows, Island of the blue dolphin, witch of blackbird pond and the bronze bow are also very interesting and good..
I loved The Babysitter's Club at that age. : )
I'm glad you asked. I'll enjoy reading your responses as I have the same question for my 9 yo.
If she liked Harry Ptter, she might also like the Septimus Heap series. The actual book names totally blank me know but one is Magik, might be the first. Septimus Heap is the main character. I read the first 4 books and my daughter liked them. None of us got into Harry Potter.
My son is enjoying the Maze Runner series. And of course there are the classics like the Hobbit and Children of another god. I read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan about that age and remember loving it.
