What to read after harry potter?

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My 8yo dd is an avid reader and loved harry potter. I'd like to encourage her love of books, but i am a bit wary of content that's too old for her. She's just finished northern lights, which i let her read as she was really keen and it didn't feel right to tell her she couldn't, but i wasn't entirely comfortable exposing her to the horror of it, or of the later harry potter books. I am certainly not keen for her to read anything with teenage themes (sex etc). Are there any books that might be a similar level in terms of thought provoking themes but age appropriate?

You’ve read all the Cressida Cowell dragon and wizard books?

No we haven't, good shout thank you!

My 8 year old DS has just devoured the first 5 Percy Jackson books, I read the first one and the first 5 chapters of the second to him then he read the rest in a couple of days

Harry Potter fans here (8&10) also love:
Percy jackson
wonder
The star outside my window
Mr lemoncello's library
Scarlet and ivy
the girl who speaks bear - Sophie anderson
The explorer - Katherine rundell
And anything by Abi elphinstone, vashti Hardy, Emma carrol, noel streatfield,
Pluss classics such as Tom's midnight Garden, the Little Princess, secret Garden, Heidi....

My 9 year old DS has read Harry Potter & also loves:
David Walliams books
The Tom Gates books (L Pichon or similar is the author)
Middle school series - James Patterson
Roald Dahl

He has read a few Jacqueline Wilson books too (but we keep that a secret....)

What about the history keepers series? My son loved those.

Thank you! Lots here i haven't heard of (apart from tom gates which we know back to front!), so will check them all out. And thanks for the reminder re Jacqueline Wilson. She's enjoyed a couple of those but definitely one to explore further.

Emma Carroll is very popular here.

My children have particularly enjoyed Peter Buntzl's Cogheart series.
Also a series called Wundersmith, I think.
Podkin One Ear.

A series of unfortunate events?
Little women - I first read it in late primary school and loved it.

The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? Or is that a bit too grown up at this age?

The chrestomanci series, dale mark quartet and howel's moving castle by Diana Wynn Jones

Anthony Horowitz books

I remover living the princess diaries by meg Cabot as well

Only a single book (although my googling tells me there are sequels), but have you come across Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques?

I read it when it came out and although I was a little older than your daughter, I read at the same time as I was into Harry Potter and there is certainly nothing in it as the later HP books. In fact it's one of the few books I've kept to pass on to my kids when they're old enough. I'm recommending it because it's so character driven, like HP, with such well fleshed out subjects.

A mute boy ends up stowing away on the Flying Dutchman (pre curse) and is befriended by a kindly chef. He adopts a stray dog at some point. When the curse is put on the ship, the boy and his dog are recognised as goodies so instead of being trapped on the ship are allowed to travel the earth doing various good deeds. It has its own Wiki page, with a more in depth plot description.

*nothing as harrowing as HP books

The Lionboy Trilogy by Zizou Corder

Terry Pratchett
Susan Cooper

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

The Hobbit

Robin hobb books. Start with the farseer trilogy

Artemis Fowl? Is that still a thing? If so - the audio books are a great thing to go to sleep to!

Ooh ex librarian here but suspect my tastes might be a bit more young adult as that was my section! The Stravaganza series by Mary Hoffman is amazing but possibly a bit too YA for 8... Though not YA in the typical sense, and very magical. Some older themes in the later books, but hugely recommended when she's a bit older - and there are six of them!

I was going to recommend my favourite fantasy series too but that's definitely adult 😂

Diana Wynne Jones is brilliant and age appropriate I believe, I also adored Five children and It at around her age although that's more old fashioned.

And of course roald dahl!

Ooh and Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series 💙

The Wee Free Men is OK for an 8 year old, and possibly A Hat Full of Sky, bit no further. Read the second chapter of I Shall Wear Midnight for one of the grimmest passages in the whole of YA literature.

9 year old DS loves the Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer - esp loved the prequel 'tale of magic'