Harry Potter.

Anonymous wrote:In case others are scared by this list, my DC is at the top of the class in reading, more than a year above the benchmark, and still hasn't read most of these books. For the most part still reads books beneath these levels. I think I read most of these books at age 9 -12 and was also advanced in reading.

Many have a starting age of 8 (see Amazon ratings).

Jake Drake and the Bully Buster

Anonymous wrote:Eleanor Estes.

My child read 100 Dresses by her and loved it. It is the kind of book you'd want to read again as an older child as well.

Anonymous wrote:In case others are scared by this list, my DC is at the top of the class in reading, more than a year above the benchmark, and still hasn't read most of these books. For the most part still reads books beneath these levels. I think I read most of these books at age 9 -12 and was also advanced in reading.

There is no way you could know your child is "more than a year" above the benchmark unless not in FCPS. (In FCPS, they stop the DRA at the end of second grade level for first graders.) You could know only that your child passed the second grade benchmark and nothing more concrete than that if you're in FCPS.

Beverly Cleary books

In case others are scared by this list, my DC is at the top of the class in reading, more than a year above the benchmark, and still hasn't read most of these books. For the most part still reads books beneath these levels. I think I read most of these books at age 9 -12 and was also advanced in reading.

My 7 year old just finished these books w/in the last week and loved them:

Anne of Green Gables
Chocolate Touch
Trilogy of My Father's Dragon

Others that are good:

Freckle Juice
The Who Was or Who Is... (biography series)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Lost Prince, The Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden)

C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia)

Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain)

My 7 year old read The Hobbit last year and liked it, but was a bit confused by the ending. Now he's into Harry Potter. He actually did not like The Lost Prince, which surprised me.

E.L. Konigsburg
Eva Ibbotson
Oz books by L Frank Baum
Pippi Longstocking books
Mrs Piggle-Wiggle books (this set may not be as advanced as you're hoping for)
Madeleine L'Engle

OP here. Thank you to all for suggestions, have plenty of names now to look up, thanks!

Edward Eager, E.B. White, Mary Norton, Beverly Cleary

Elizabeth Enright, Natalie Babbitt, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Joan Aiken, Syndney Taylor

Eleanor Estes.

Brandon Mull