Books for 8-9 Year Old Girl

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Anonymous wrote:
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.

What are the “Freddy” books?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 9 year old can't get enough of percy jackson. There are three 5 book series that she's read now. It's gotten her really into Greek mythology and she loves seeing Greek mythology everywhere. Like Achilles heels, the NASA space ship named Artemis, etc.

Did you let her read the last series trials of Apollo? Any issues? I was reading the books along with my 8 year old and Trials of Apollo is much darker psychologically and violent. I stopped him when he started having bad dreams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 9 year old can't get enough of percy jackson. There are three 5 book series that she's read now. It's gotten her really into Greek mythology and she loves seeing Greek mythology everywhere. Like Achilles heels, the NASA space ship named Artemis, etc.

Did you let her read the last series trials of Apollo? Any issues? I was reading the books along with my 8 year old and Trials of Apollo is much darker psychologically and violent. I stopped him when he started having bad dreams.

Not PP but I have a 9 year old obsessed with Greek mythology and she did fine with the Trials of Apollo books. The main thing about the books with older kids is there is more romance, but it's honestly still pretty light. But every kid is different. My kid reads a ton of fantasy and a lot of it is more violent but as long as it has a moral core and the violence is not gratuitous, I'm okay with it.

She recently got into Star Wars and I've been surprised by how much gratuitous violence is in those movies and books. I've had to restrict some of it as a result. Percy Jackson is way, way less violent than that. It's closer to Harry Potter type violence. I'd put the Trials of Apollo books on par with some of the later HP books, so that could be a good guide for whether your kid is ready for them.

[Anonymous]

My seven-year-old really enjoyed George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblins. Some of the language is pretty archaic, but it’s the source for the orcs in The Hobbit and a pretty fun read.

E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It is also great and would be enjoyed by a range of elementary school children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My seven-year-old really enjoyed George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblins. Some of the language is pretty archaic, but it’s the source for the orcs in The Hobbit and a pretty fun read.

E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It is also great and would be enjoyed by a range of elementary school children.

For George MacDonald my kids found they did better listening on audiobook. Though The Light Princess is short/easy enough that they read through that one, The Princess and the Goblins and the Princess and Curdie are easier to digest when someone else is reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

What are the “Freddy” books?

DP but I think it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_the_Pig

My kids are pretty good with classic kid lit (for example they love Betsy Tacy and Little House) and also enjoy pig books, but couldn't get into Freddy.