Books for 9 yr old dd.. she thinks books her age are babyish !

My 9yo DD basically inhaled the A girl called Justice mystery books by Ellie Griffiths (The Ruth Galloway series author). Currently sourcing an outfit for world book day.

Shes moved on to the Who Let The Gods out series. and when she finishes that shes told me she want to read my agatha christie books. She enjoys a murder mystery and I was 10 when I started reading them. Plus it saves me buying new books for her.

Chocolate box girls series, can't think of the author

Problim children series!! It’s quirky but fun!

Emma Carroll are great if she loves historical, 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Alice Tonks' has a touch of magic but is based in the real world, Lucy Strange's books are similar but historical-based, and Natasha Farrant novels are gorgeous!

Empathy lab publish 'read for empathy' collections every year. Some great titles on there for all different ages. I think they're publishing a new list pretty soon too, worth a look!

I find myself facing the same problems of finding my child books that are educational, deals with confidence-boosting themes, and instills some adventure. What does everyone find challenging? What aspects are the most appealign and valuable? These are questions I ask myself and struggle to find children's book that hit any of these marks?

I also think the Brightstorm Chronicles are a great read (but definitely not 'real life'). I recently used these with a class of Y5/6 who all enjoyed the books!!

Lots of primary schools have lists of recommended books online. I have used these for ideas in the past and usually find that the suggestions are quite challenging so they may appeal to your DD. I just googled Year 6 reading list pdf and loads came up!

Might have already been suggested by how about Famous Five by Enid Blyton?

Also, all the books by the author of “the boy at the back of the class” (Rauf?) are fantastic - including the shorter one (the great food bank robbery) published by barrington stoke.

Op.....rick Riordan and the Percy Jackson stories are brilliant. Also Michael morpurgo writes some beautiful animal stories

Seconding Jacqueline Wilson and Lottie brooks! Also Babysitters club, a kind of spark, the geek girl series.

My dd loved the cookie books by konnie huq, she's the same, she doesn't like magical type books. Prefers real life/diary type ones

Swallows and Amazons?

Books by Sharon Creech pack an emotional wallop. Maybe too much for a 9 yo though.

A good many books by Kate do Camillo plumb some serious depths even though they don't all feature humans.
Because of Winn Dixie
The Tale of Desperaux
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Anna of Byzantium, by Teacy Barrett

Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
Also, The Midwife's Apprentice, by Cushman, and The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse
Aleutian Sparrow, by same author
Safekeeping, same author (a dystopian novel)

God Went to Beauty School, by Cynthia Rylant

Bat 6, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan
The Macinac trilogy by the same author

I would suggest letting her choose her own books from a large library.

I found this book interesting - How Dad made me a superhero. My 7 year old read this quite a few time on just 2 days .. He's actually overcoming his little fears and open to explore the scary situations. I happy with this book.

This website Booksfortopics is all you need.
Recommendations from librarians, teachers etc by year group or topic. It has 'branching out' lists for children that like a particular author too. Lots of new books that you might not know about are included. In my experience many children don't want to read the same books their parents did - mine turn their nose up at all my old favourites!

Anyone who likes Eva Ibbotson might be interested in Escape to the River Sea which is a follow on book about the next generation (different author).

Caroline Lawrence Roman mysteries series (Ancient Rome pretty good historical detail & pre teen detective heroine)

Diana Wynne Jones's 'Chrestomanci' series, of which the first is 'The Lives of Christopher Chant'.

I remember really enjoying some collections of retellings of stories at that age - 'Tales from Shakespeare', 'Tales from the Arabian Nights', and a lovely Orchard book of 'stories from the ballet' (I had no interest in ballet but loved the stories).

At that age my daughter loved Percy Jackson, Lemony Snicket and Jacqueline Wilson. I work in year 5 and that still stands it seems!

Astrid Lingren? The Bullerby Children is great. The 10 year old in my life enjoyed Lingren's Ronja the Robber's Daughter last summer and recently Frida Nilsson's Ape Star. The last one is more or less real world - you do have to accept a gorilla talks, reads, and is capable of driving. But I hope if your DD liked Harry Potter and fairies, she doesn't want to foreswear off fantasy or even light fantastical elements altogether.

No, I just checked with her and it was ‘how to bee’ (never heard of it personally)

Look for Newbery Medal winner books (there is a list of them on Wiki) Award winning literature written for kids. Far better than most of the books available for kids atm.

Some popular rl ones with mine when they were that age:
Fish in a tree
Out of my mind
Wonder
The war that saved my life
Anna at war

Also all the raina telgemeier graphic novels were a big hit

We all also love nevermoor, not real life though!