DD (8) is about to finish the Harry Potter series and be bereft- what next?

I haven't let mine have beyond the 4th book yet(they are 8 and 9) partly because I am uncertain they are ready for them and partly to avoid this "what now" situation. You could try Moondial, Charlotte Sometimes, A Traveller Through Time, Children of Greene Know type books? Have you done The Enchanted Castle, 5 Children and it, Phoenix and the Carpet etc?

Hi me and my niece have both just finished 'The Secret in the Sky' by Willow Lockett. Its about a 13-year-old girl called Ruby Merrygold, who lives with her wicked Aunt Mabel and finds a magical telescope in her garden. When she looks through it she discovers the secret in the sky, where all the Superfolk live that look after everyone on earth. There's Walter Wishbone, the wish granter, Malbert Moonberg, the dream maker and all the fairy-tale characters have all grown up and achieved their dreams, including Peter Pan who now owns his own theme park up there. Ruby is delighted when she is invited up to it to make her dreams come true, by Harrison Hawk. BUT there's just one person stopping her from getting there, her wicked Aunt Mabel.
Will she make it up to the most magical and best kept secret in the world? and if she does, a creepy forest awaits those who enter the sky with fear, does Ruby have fears?
If this sounds like something you're daughter will enjoy, it is available on Amazon and this is the first in a series which I was delighted to find out. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm 27! Hehe. Hope you find some great books for him either way and have a wonderful summer!
Daisy.

Ivy Pocket
Laura Marlin
Ruby Redfort

Oh and yes yes to pp's suggesting Artemis Fowl... may need to reread those and the Chrestomanci series again myself.

I loved the Wind on Fire trilogy when I was her age, but from a now outside perspective they may be a bit old?

Look them up though and see what you think, they really are great.

A wizard of Earthsea, and the rest of the trilogy by Ursula La Guin,
Any of Tamora Pierce's books
Some of Mercedes Lackey's Valdamar stories.
All worth a read

Great thread all. My 9 year old just coming to the end of the last harry potter too, so just what we need.

Thanks Ebearhug, I read that when I was young and was trying to remember what it was called for years!

Also looking for book about a girl who cycles round the isle of Wight...?

I was introduced to Elizabeth Enright about age 8 - the Melendy series, starting with the Saturdays. Not sure if they'really still in print though.

Please don't buy Darren Shan at 8!

The Bartimaeus Trilogy.

The 'Molly Moon' books are good, too.

After HP, DS (and me!) enjoyed
Artemis Fowl
The Thief Lord
Series of Unfortunate Events

Brilliant thread

My daughter enjoyed The Bromeliad ( Pratchett) after Harry Potter.

My amazon basket is bursting thanks to this thread!

*Mariah Mundi

Also, although not fantasy, Jan Mark books are fantastic.

Let her mourn, it's necessary.
Marian Mundi might be worth ago.
Otherwise Joan Aiken books.

Lemony Snickett, Diana Wynne Jones Crestomanci (sp) series. My boys also loved 'The Ogre downstairs' by her, it's fab. And we LOVE the Mr Gum books which have us in stitches!!

I was quite glad when dd ground to a halt when she reached HP5 (i think it was the trial that defeated her-it's incredibly wordy!)
Before that she had zoomed through the others and loved them.

She loved the worst witch and the Enid blyton school stories and has enjoyed some of the 'younger' Jaqueline Wilson books (I think the themes of many are too grown up for a young 8 year old)

Goth girl?

The tales of Beedle the Bard?

The Hunger Games is so not suitable for primary school children. The end of the third book is among the most depressing things I've ever read.
There is an upsetting sequence in Tiffany Aching of her dealing with a young pregnant girl beaten by her father and the resultant miscarriage.
On this thread there are some great suggestions for an 8 year old but some seriously odd ones too. Agatha Christie??
There really is no substitute for a parent actually forming their own opinion about books for an 8 year old. Some schools have reading lists of suggested books for different ages. Many librarians and teachers can provide appropriate suggestions. In a library the scruffiest, most dog eared books are the most popular, they are the ones the kids are choosing.

Oh I forgot to say has she read Fantastic beasts and where to find them?

I loved Skellig, I haven't read it in years, think I will get it again, I second suggestions of A series of unfortunate events also I read tonnes of Terry Pratchett, The colour of magic, I shall wear midnight, Witches abroad, The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents were a few among my favourites, I will be getting them for my dds birthday next year she will be 8. The lord of the rings are very good books, very long too. There are more, et me get back to you once I've had a dig through my old book box, these sorts of threads make me want to read I'm glad my dd has inherited my book worm bug

Definitely The Wolves of Willoughby Chase books by Joan Aiken. My 8 yo DS is on the third book and they're fab. Brilliant language, exciting stories and all a bit quirky and slightly gothic.