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

DD is 8 & a voracious reader. Sticking to series off the top of my (frazzled) head.
The Rangers Apprentice
Little house on the prairie
Narnia
Dark is rising
Lauren child's Ruby Redfort
The Penderwicks
Alex Rider
Dragonskin slippers etc
Twelve dancing princesses series Jessica Day George (as is Dragonskin above & castle on Tuesdays etc are great too but much lighter/younger)
Dealing with Dragons
Everything Lari Don has ever written
Warrior cats
Dragon fire
Skulduggery Pleasant

Graphic novel series -
zita the spacegirl
Amulet

We're in the same boat. She started HP with the illustrated special edition a year ago, and she's motored through the lot. She's on the last one and begging for more. We've also done some not suggested here yet. Neil gaiman has writen a shorter book called 'only the milk' which was funny and quick. Mrs Pepperpot? Chronicles of Narnia? We've also had an illustrated version of the hobbit which looks like a great introduction. She's also devoured all the David Walliams books. And yes ^to little house on the prairie.

Have you taken her to the studio tour? Best day out we've ever done!

Hunger Games for an 8 year old!?!?

The Secret Series. My kid is obsessed. Seems to have quite the cult following

Definitely also think Artemis Fowl is fab. Also Nancy Drew (mysteries) and Enid blyton too. I also read Sherlock Holmes and agatha Christie at about that age, but wouldn't necessarily recommend until she's a big older - I devoured about 20 books a week so was struggling for material! (That also means some of my recommendations from earlier may be off age wise.)

My DS' liked Percy Jackson after HP. I am currently listening to HP on Audible, I adore the books and enjoying them all over again being read by Stephen Fry.

Er, the movie of the Hunger Games is rated 12A, so I don't think the books would be appropriate for an 8-yr-old. Whatever happened to letting children be children?

Alex Rider books (about a young spy)
Artemis Fowl
Maximum Ride books
These were my favourites!

Had she read The Little House series, or Anne of Green Gables or the Heidi books? My just 10yo has devoured all those recently. She is reading Call of the Wild currently. We're also reading Tarka the Otter together.

Hunger games and his dark materials are too much for an 8 year, hunger games ffs! I read them when I was 18, they're upsetting, it's children killing each other for entertainment.

Terry pratchett and hobbit are good suggestions!

I was forced to read Skellig in year 8 and I thought it was utter crap.

I loved Artemis Fowl, great series and Eoin Colfer has some other good books too.

The divergent series
Hunger games series

OH GOD of course Dianna Wynne Jones

Gosh! I'm glad she's got so into reading, but realistically the HP books were written for people who were 7 (or older) at the release of PS, and then by the time the last book came out most of us were at least 16 :/ and they do get darker in an age-appropriate for teens/adults way.

But, if she coped well with those then a couple of the Robin Jarvis trilogies are excellent (Whitby Witches, Thorn Ogres of Hagwood, Wyrd Museum).

If she likes 'school stories' then the St Clares or Malory Towers books are fun, as are Famous Five (infinitely better than Secret Seven :P)

101 Dalmatians, by Dodie Smith (NOT a disney companion book)

If it's witches and wizards, then The Worst Witch, maybe even Sabriel although I did find that challenging to read at times.

Definitely Dianna Wynne Jones

And how about the Dark is Rising? Or some Alan Garner?

Also, take her to your nearest library and set her free in the 8-12 section. She's clearly a great reader, and post-Potter there has been so much fantastic children's fiction published. I read a lot, but even so I struggle to keep up with what's come out lately. My kids stagger home under piles of library books every week and discover new stuff constantly.

Hobbit

School of good and evil

Diana Wynne jones witch week chrestomanci series

I'm dreading this. We're almost at this point. I was bereft too and I was 27!!!

I agree OP - HDM too dark for most 8YO.

Some more series that got my DC out of the post-Potter slump were the Oksa Pollock series. Rose series by holly Webb. The School of Good and Evil series. A Wrinkle in Time and sequels.

And yes to Percy Jackson, though more aged 10+ than 8 (read the first one yourself to see what you think - PJ's mum is the victim of domestic abuse that my DC would have found upsetting at 8.) Also the superb Artemis Fowl series at about 10+.

I think you should let her read them all again if she wants! There's something to be gained from getting to know a work really well, as well as from wide reading.

I think you should let her read them all again if she wants! There's something to be gained from getting to know a work really well, as well as from wide reading.

I love Lemony Snickett too. I was teaching a wonderful year 3/4 class years ago when lots of these books first came out, and habe great memories of some fabulous kids who loved them, long before children of my own.

Terry Pratchett recommendations: The Amazing Maurice and the Tiffany Aching series are what we've read so far. We still read to her - then she likes to read the same book to herself afterwards.

She is also fully immersed in the world of Enid Blyton...

Yy to Percy Jackson as well! Fantastic series!