Victorian or 1930's book

Hetty Feather the TV series is actually very different to the books - they completely changed the storylines (I love both the books and the telly version). She might enjoy them but maybe start with Jacqueline Wilson's The Lottie Project with is one of her earlier ones and is a good beginners book.
ShakeaHettyFeather what violence and religion that needs explaining are you talking about in the Little House series?
If she is a reluctant reader she might find Little House quite hard. I didn't read them until I was 12.
This thread is good because I love children's books and I too am trying to find books set in those era's. The irony is I seem to have read most of what has been suggested

Charlotte Sometimes would be good.
Anne of Green Gables, probably best to read to her.
Little house in the big Woods or Plum Creek, but the violence and religion may need explaining.

Have a look at the my story books they are written like a diary and there’s lots of different history periods covered

smith by Leon garfield about a pickpocket in victorian London
charlotte sometimes. ..book about time travelling 1940/1970's

Another vote for the Little White Horse, I must have read that book a hundred times when I was a child!

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, bit of fantasy but set in a Victorian period. There's a not very good film as well. Loved that book when I was a child, the lead character has the most amazing bedroom that I was very jealous of!

I would also suggest some of Jacqueline Wilson's other historical stories. Clover Moon and Rose Rivers are set in Victorian times I think. I just got one from the library for my rather reluctant 10 year called Dancing the Charleston set in the 1920s.

I would disagree. As Laura gets older the books get more complex so read Little House in the Big Woods first.

Big Woods is OK, yes, but On The Prairie some sections a child might find boring. Some won’t like the how to build a house sections. Whole chapter in making a door and putting a latch on. I loved it all, personally, but I definitely found the new characters introduced at school in Plum Creek and the adventures in that one more interesting.

Charlotte’s Web would be good. Is that ‘30s or maybe ‘50s?

One of my favourites when I was her age was Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. A Little Princess by frances Hodgson Burnett would fit the bill though.

There are also some easy-read nonfiction books about lives of children in specific time periods which she might enjoy, if you can get in touch with your local library they’d be happy to help.

Yes - Noel Streatfield is great. Ballet Shoes, Thursday's Child (set in Victorian times), White Boots. As she likes Victorian stuff, I'd go for Thursday's Child.

Lucy Worsley’s book My Name is Victoria is a really good story based on the childhood of Queen Victoria. Age 10 is probably the lower end of the reading age for it but it’s a very nice read.

I agree re Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a great story as is Midnight Is a Place.

Murder Most Unladylike and the rest of that series are really fun, set in the 1930s

Phoenix and the Carpet/Five Children and It!!

The Greatest Gresham
Ballet Shoes
What Katy Did
Moondial
Chalet School books (dated and formulaic but not too challenging)

Anything by Noel Strefeild. Ballet Shoes is my all time favourite book and a couple of her others have the Fossil sisters pop up.

The Lottie Project by Jacqueline Wilson.

Usbourne books have a series of books called "The Historical House" one or 2 of them are set in Victorian Times. They have various authors.

Anne of Green Gables. I don't actually know when that is set though. ?

Pink Rabbit series by Judith Kerr.

Final one! The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aikin. Set in an alternative 19th century during the reign of James III. One of those books that I started reading to DD1 and then she finished herself. It's the first in a very long and loosely connected series. Think I read to DD1 when she was 8 or 9 so probably good for a 10yo reluctant reader. Not too challenging but a rollicking read.

What about the Little House on the Prairie series? You don’t to read them in order. Plum Creek would be a good one to start.

I would disagree. As Laura gets older the books get more complex so read Little House in the Big Woods first.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Family from 1 End Street by Eve Garnett
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (anything by her actually)
Mary Poppins by PL Travers
101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith (or I Capture the Castle in a couple of years)

Agree that many actual Victorian novels are quite challenging these days and a lot are rather dodgy. However the Edwardian period was a bit of a golden age for children's literature so might be good for stories to read to your daughter. If she is a reluctant reader then still reading to her will help her if she finds a novel challenging.

Ballet Shoes is 1930s if your DD has any interest in ballet. Even if she doesn't, it's a cracking read (I've never been interested in ballet and loved it). If she liked it there are many other Noel Streatfeilds she could move on to. There are also film and TV versions of Ballet Shoes if she is the sort of person who finds her way into a book via watching it first.

I Was A Rat is by Philip Pullman, actually.

Elizabethan rather than Victorian but as a kid I loved 'Traveller in time'. Read it over and over, certainly inspired my imagination

What about the Little House on the Prairie series? You don’t to read them in order. Plum Creek would be a good one to start.

Some of Rumer Godden’s books? The Diddakoi might be good, though not Victorian. The Story of Holly and Ivy is lovely. Though aimed at younger ones, I re-read it now.

Journey to the River Sea. - Edwardian orphan sent out to the Amazon.
I Coriander - set in Puritan times.
War Horse - and other Michael Morpurgo books. I Was A Rat is fun.
Some short stories? Hans Christian Anderson?

My reluctant reader wouldn’t have read any of these, though. Would non fiction be better?

Not sure if they’d be good for a reluctant reader, but the pre-war William books by Richmal Crompton

Maybe some of Jacqueline Wilson’s other historical ones? Opal Plumstead, about a Suffragette, and there is a WW2 one and maybe more- I haven’t kept up!

Sorry completely missed the Hetty Feather comment in the OP, ignore me!