The Blackthorn Key series if she likes mysteries! I’m 18 and still I find these books captivating, intriguing, and I can never solve the mysteries until the very end! They also teach lots of history which is great
Anything by Roald Dahl! Matilda is one of my favorites; my kids loved Fantastic Mr. Fox as their first Dahl book. Zorgamazoo is super fun – a novel in rhyming couplets. If you want something more realistic A Mango Shaped Space, Fish in a Tree or Counting by Sevens. My son also loves the I Survived series. So many choices!!
The Serafina books. Tuck Everlasting The Westing Game From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Matilda or The Witches A Wrinkle in Time The I Survived series Island of the Blue Dolphins Harriet the Spy Nancy Drew series
definitely look into The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi, and School For Good and Evil. those are some great middle grade reads, and two of those authors ended up writing YA series that are amazing for when she’s older.
Also check out Above World. it’s a trilogy of middle grade reads that are awesome with mermaids and centaurs and flying women. ?
I’m deff not the person to ask though, since at 9 O was reading Stephen King ?
@Leah so then deff check out some of the middle grade books. they’re more challenging than the children’s books but still not so hard where you need to be older to understand some of the words an content
My daughter just turned 10. These are her suggestions: *She recommends History books like Alexander Hamilton *Babysitters Club *Boxcar Children *Trixie Belden *Carole Marsh Mysteries *Whatever After books *The Never Girls *Harry Potter *Ramona Quimby *A Little Princess *The Secret Garden *Anne of Green Gables (she read the children’s adaptation)
Little Women, Anne of green gables series, Emily of New Moon series, Harry Potter, anything by Roald Dahl. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. (Narnia series)
Is she a tomboy or a girlie girl? My daughter: pure girl- danced, wore dresses, played dolls even though she had two older brothers loved Princess Academy by Shannon Hale at the age of Nine. For a Tomboy, like I was, I loved all the Narnia books, I loved the Lord of the Rings- read them by myself, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I even enjoyed The Hardy Boys more than Nancy Drew and yet still fell in love with all the classic Victorian books like Anything from Jane Austen. She’s probably too young for Austen. Seemed like more adventure to fit my needs. Also any of Neil Gaiman’s children books- my nieces especially enjoy Unfortunately the Milk, and The Graveyard Book.
madeleine l’engle A Wrinkle in Time series And all the others by her. I devoured her books as a kid. Little Women Series Anne of Green Gables series Are you there god, it’s me Margaret
What does she like? Could try babysitters club, nancy drew, choose your own adventure books, the dork diaries, diary of a wimpy kid, 39 clues, the witches, Charlie and the chocolate factory, the great Shelby Holmes, goosebumps, wonder, wonderstruck, mr lemoncello series. Scary stories to tell in the dark
Also–Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright, Afternoon of the Elves by Lislie, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes; Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, and The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden. All Newbery Medal winners. In fact, the whole Cricket series by Selden is great. I recently re-read some Newbery Award books myself because I loved them so much when I was a kid 🙂
Is she an advanced reader? If so, you could always get an illustrated version of a classic novel such as A Tale Of Two Cities; A Christmas Carol, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea; Aesop’s Fables; etc
Book recommendation posts for kids are so fun to comment on. 🙂 I am childfree but I was a kid who spent countless hours in the library and would check out 10-20 books at a time. I still do 🙂
@Leah -Absolutely; especially given the amount of technology kids are bombarded with nowadays. I’m gonna start giving my nieces and nephews books as gifts for Christmas and birthdays.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling would probably be the answer you get a lot. Other than that, Lockwood & Co. by @Jonathan (5 books in total,) Inkworld trilogy by @Cornelia, and The Uncommoners by @Jennifer (supposedly 3 books in total, final book comes out next July in the UK.)
Madonna has some nice books that my niece loved around that age, and the money goes to charity (though I don’t remember what). It’s a series about the Tea Roses if I remember right.
Roald Dahl books! Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Esio Trot, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Danny the Champion of the World, The Witches, and so many more! Also, I found David Walliams rather entertaining – “Gangsta Granny”, “The Boy in the Dress”, “Mr. Stink”. Go ahead and give these a shot! Aar HP series to no-brainer. You might also give her “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, although the language may not be very easy for a nine-year-old.
Harry Potter series.
The Percy Jackson series
The Blackthorn Key series if she likes mysteries! I’m 18 and still I find these books captivating, intriguing, and I can never solve the mysteries until the very end! They also teach lots of history which is great
The Secret Garden: https://usborne.com/browse-books/catalogue/product/1/2703/the-secret-garden/ 🙂
Anything by Roald Dahl! Matilda is one of my favorites; my kids loved Fantastic Mr. Fox as their first Dahl book. Zorgamazoo is super fun – a novel in rhyming couplets. If you want something more realistic A Mango Shaped Space, Fish in a Tree or Counting by Sevens. My son also loves the I Survived series. So many choices!!
Not sure about Zorgamazoo for a 9 year old… I absolutely loved it–but it was a little dark.
it reminded my of Dahl’s style. A little wacky ?
Ms. Marvel comics!
https://www.target.com/p/secret-horses-of-briar-hill-hardcover-megan-shepherd/-/A-51531623?AFID=google_pla_df&CPNG=PLA_Entertainment+Shopping&adgroup=SC_Entertainment&LID=700000001170770pgs&network=g&device=m&location=1016367&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpMGHkNeE1wIVQkGGCh3f5AbJEAQYASABEgK3fvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Loved this!!
It reminded me a bit of The Secret Garden.
The Twistrose Key
The Serafina books.
Tuck Everlasting
The Westing Game
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Matilda or The Witches
A Wrinkle in Time
The I Survived series
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Harriet the Spy
Nancy Drew series
Jen Perry – her suggestions above!
The accidental time traveler series
Waffle Hearts by Maria Parr
The Chronicles of Narnia books!
Charlie bone series
Anything Roald Dahl
when i was you ger i loved the spiderwick cronicle
definitely look into The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi, and School For Good and Evil. those are some great middle grade reads, and two of those authors ended up writing YA series that are amazing for when she’s older.
Also check out Above World. it’s a trilogy of middle grade reads that are awesome with mermaids and centaurs and flying women. ?
I’m deff not the person to ask though, since at 9 O was reading Stephen King ?
Lol nice. Yea she is a smart little girl but I wasn’t sure what would be too challenging and what would be enough
@Leah so then deff check out some of the middle grade books. they’re more challenging than the children’s books but still not so hard where you need to be older to understand some of the words an content
Alright cool
My daughter just turned 10. These are her suggestions:
*She recommends History books like Alexander Hamilton
*Babysitters Club
*Boxcar Children
*Trixie Belden
*Carole Marsh Mysteries
*Whatever After books
*The Never Girls
*Harry Potter
*Ramona Quimby
*A Little Princess
*The Secret Garden
*Anne of Green Gables (she read the children’s adaptation)
Tell your daughter thank you ?
I will. ?
Harry potter , journy to the center of earth
Thank you so much everyone!! ?❤ definitely gave me a better idea what to get her
Right now they are all reading Decendants like crazy
This series is interesting and full of magical/ adventurous themes. Also the Warrior series is good, or the Redwall series.
That was such a fun book!
Saddle Club series if she is into horses.
What about the Dairy of a whimpy kid? See Amazon have all 11 books for 0.99p & the 12th one come out next month I think it is for £8.99
Harry potter?
Or maybe the Bliss Bakery series? That’s what my sister really enjoyed and she just turned 10
The Paul street boys
50 shades of gray JKD
Percy Jackson or the Disney descentants
Fog Magic
Dork diaries
The diary of a wimpy kid
Serafina&the black cloak(it’s a fantasy book)
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson
Chronicles of Narnia
Trixie Beldon!
I have the entire series. Even bought the books after I was too old to read them. Loved Trixie!!
Judy Blume books, they taught me a lot growing up.
I think she has read every single one of those lol. She is more advanced than those now
Harriet the Spy; Moody Judy
Little Women, Anne of green gables series, Emily of New Moon series, Harry Potter, anything by Roald Dahl. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. (Narnia series)
Is she a tomboy or a girlie girl? My daughter: pure girl- danced, wore dresses, played dolls even though she had two older brothers loved Princess Academy by Shannon Hale at the age of Nine. For a Tomboy, like I was, I loved all the Narnia books, I loved the Lord of the Rings- read them by myself, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I even enjoyed The Hardy Boys more than Nancy Drew and yet still fell in love with all the classic Victorian books like Anything from Jane Austen. She’s probably too young for Austen. Seemed like more adventure to fit my needs. Also any of Neil Gaiman’s children books- my nieces especially enjoy Unfortunately the Milk, and The Graveyard Book.
She is a little bit of both lol. So I’ll try a little bit books from both
Leah Fowler good idea. Have fun picking her book. You’re a good aunt.
Thank you ? once I realized how much she loves reading I wanted to really get her into it
@Leah feeding the fire I a good thing when it comes to reading! ?
Percy Jackson <3
Mathilda is a really cool book for kids that age!
madeleine l’engle
A Wrinkle in Time series
And all the others by her. I devoured her books as a kid.
Little Women Series
Anne of Green Gables series
Are you there god, it’s me Margaret
What does she like? Could try babysitters club, nancy drew, choose your own adventure books, the dork diaries, diary of a wimpy kid, 39 clues, the witches, Charlie and the chocolate factory, the great Shelby Holmes, goosebumps, wonder, wonderstruck, mr lemoncello series. Scary stories to tell in the dark
All I’ve seen her read is Judy blume but I know she is growing out of those
The Scary Stories books are great, Really creepy illustrations!
Harriet the Spy, From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series
Also, the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. I loved those books as a kid 🙂
Wizard of oz, Alice in wonderland
Also–Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright, Afternoon of the Elves by Lislie, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes; Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, and The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden. All Newbery Medal winners. In fact, the whole Cricket series by Selden is great. I recently re-read some Newbery Award books myself because I loved them so much when I was a kid 🙂
A wrinkle in time
Is she an advanced reader? If so, you could always get an illustrated version of a classic novel such as A Tale Of Two Cities; A Christmas Carol, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea; Aesop’s Fables; etc
I thought about those. I think she would like those collectible classics from Barnes and noble
@Leah -I love those! I currently collect Penguin Classics-with the black cover
I just picked up Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Irving’s short stories
It helps that my husband is the assistant manager of a used bookstore 🙂 Nice job perks!
Oh nice! Lol. I would just sit in there and read all the time
He brings lots of great stuff home!
Book recommendation posts for kids are so fun to comment on. 🙂 I am childfree but I was a kid who spent countless hours in the library and would check out 10-20 books at a time. I still do 🙂
Yes. I don’t have any kids yet but I hope they love reading as well. She loves it and so I want to keep encouraging it. She is so smart.
@Leah -Absolutely; especially given the amount of technology kids are bombarded with nowadays. I’m gonna start giving my nieces and nephews books as gifts for Christmas and birthdays.
Inkheart
YES!!!
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Maybe an animal book, or Enid Blyton, or Laura Ingalls Wilder
Emily Eyefinger. They’re what really got me into reading when I was about her age.
Hi! I’m a consultant for Usborne Books and these are books for ages 9- 11 if you’re interested. 🙂
https://m6619.myubam.com/c/38/age-9-11
i love usborne books.. i have bought a set of books for my kida
Phantom Tollbooth
The school for good and evil.
Harry Potter
A library card
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel!
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling would probably be the answer you get a lot. Other than that, Lockwood & Co. by @Jonathan (5 books in total,) Inkworld trilogy by @Cornelia, and The Uncommoners by @Jennifer (supposedly 3 books in total, final book comes out next July in the UK.)
Harry Potter, hands down! Oh and A series of unfortunate events
A series of unfortunate events is amazing. I was 9 when I started the series?
Goosebumps!
Oh aye Goosebumps loved them as a kid & the point horrors
Harry Potter. ?
https://geronimostilton.com/portal/WW/en/home/?fw=1
I loved Enid Blyton when I was 9
The Land of Stories series!
The Trixie Belden series is a good older mystery series also. Ive found them cheapest on ThriftBooks as they are no longer in print
Madonna has some nice books that my niece loved around that age, and the money goes to charity (though I don’t remember what). It’s a series about the Tea Roses if I remember right.
Captain Underpants Of course! ?
Yeah Harry Potter, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Captain Underpants, Goosebumps, and Vladimir Todd
Joan Aiken children’s books are great.
Roald Dahl books! Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Esio Trot, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Danny the Champion of the World, The Witches, and so many more! Also, I found David Walliams rather entertaining – “Gangsta Granny”, “The Boy in the Dress”, “Mr. Stink”. Go ahead and give these a shot! Aar HP series to no-brainer. You might also give her “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, although the language may not be very easy for a nine-year-old.
And of course, have you considered comics and graphic novels? Calvin and Hobbes, Bone, Anya’s Ghost, Amulet, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tintin, etc.
Oh! And the Percy Jackson series! Loved those!! 😀