Books for 8-9 Year Old Girl
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
|
We're just starting Harry Potter but I can tell it's a little scary for my 7y/o (she switched back to Roald Dahl after finishing the first one). Lots of Roald Dahl, Unicorn Academy, Zoey & Sassafrass. Have Charlotte's Web and Percy Jackson on deck for our next forays.
When she picks out her own books at the school library it's almost always Dork Diaries, which I don't love personally, but I'm glad to see her excited about reading so I let it ride. I hated (and vetoed) Junie B Jones after one book due to the main character's bad attitude/language, and I think it's a bit young for your kid anyway. |
Anonymous
I think she’d like: Rainbow Magic by Daisy Meadows Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbott (I think the main series is probably ojay, but the special editions might be a little intense) McBroom by Sid Fleischman Frindle by Andrew Clements Wayside School by Louis Sachar Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald Cam Jansen by David A. Adler Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew/Nancy Drew Notebooks by Carolyn Keene Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner Beverly Cleary Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol Danny Dunn by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin Bunnicula by Deborah Howe All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor I’ve heard great things about the Scholastic Branches books. My kids are older and these weren’t available when they were young, but I think these series are supposed to be good for kids who are about that level. https://www.scholastic.com/site/branches.html#promo C D B! (See the Bee) by William Steig (novelty book) Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (quirky poetry) Picture books: The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau Magic School Bus picture books Read-Aloud: Just-So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (The prose is beautiful, but very dense. There are some beautifully illustrated versions for kids. I’ve been told by DCUM that there are racist passages in a few of the stories, but don’t remember them, so I suspect that at least some of the children’s editions have edited them out.) |
Anonymous
What specifically makes them super trashy, do have examples? |
Anonymous
DP who said I didn't love them -- trashy is a bit much but I find there's a big emphasis on crushes and kind of tween/teenaged issues like being fashionable which I find my daughter tends to parrot without really understanding, and the storylines are more silly than you would expect for a book geared at slightly older kids (like the main character in earlier books sticks out for being a scholarship kid at a prep school but along the way she accidentally becomes an international pop star? My daughter checks them out of the library out of order so I'm not sure how exactly that happened, and in that book the fact that she's an international pop star is not the defining thing going on in her life it's just like, a weird thing that happened this summer!). Also the words: pictures ratio is pretty skewed for a chapter book, but for a kid the age OP is asking about that's not really a problem IMO. |
Anonymous
|
Nancy Drew series
Cam Jansen series Pippi Longstocking |
Anonymous
|
My DD’s favs at that age were:
- Smile, Guts, Sisters graphic novels - Percy Jackson - Wings of Fire - Mysterious Benedict Society - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the BFG, etc. |
Anonymous
|
Hobbit
Lord of the rings |
Anonymous
|
My almost 8 year old has been reading:
Wayside school books Wings of fire Sisters Grimm Kiki's Delivery Service Harry Potter Star Friends Goddess Girls Babysitters Club I survived |
Anonymous
| Mine loved the Harriet the Hamster Princess books (frankly, so did I. They are smart and funny). Phoebe and her Unicorn. Warriors (the cats). |
Anonymous
| Wild Robot, Wings of fire, Enchanted Forest. |
Anonymous
My rising 9th grader is obsessed with these, and my rising 7th grader read all of them because her sister said so. My rising 5th grader (still 9) started in on The Hobbit but bogged down. There's no way I would expect her to read Lord of the Rings yet. In a few years? Sure. But at 8-9? There's a lot a kid will miss. |
Anonymous
If she's into Greek mythology has she read D'Aulier's Greek Myths? My kids loved that book at 8-9! They were interestingly enough not as big fans of the Norse myths one. |
Anonymous
+ 1. Also Ramona, Henry Huggins, and other Beverly Cleary. She likes the Babysitter Club graphic novels as well as the novels. |
Anonymous
The Greeking Out podcast is very popular with my 8 y/o if this is an interest. |
Anonymous
|
Nancy Drew series Anne of Green Gables series Betsy-Tacy series Goddess Girls series Little House on the Prairie series Freddy the Pig series Enid Blyton (various series) D'Aulaires' "Book of Greek Myths" Assorted fairy tale collections: Andrew Lang's Red/Green/Olive/etc Fairy Books, Reader's Digest's "The World's Best Fairy Tales", etc. Bedtime reading-wise, just finished up "The Last Unicorn" and a Freddy book that had to be downloaded, now doing John Masefield's "The Midnight Folk" and another downloaded Freddy story. |