What are your 9 year olds reading?

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Want to find a couple of summer reading books for DD and DS.
Current favourites are:
Harry Potter
Simon Thorn
Wizards of Once
Train to Impossible Places

DD can cope with reading them by herself. DS needs something a bit easier to read alone, but that will still interest an 11 year old.

Working her way through Terry Pratchett, with lots of giggling. Also enjoying The Wizard of Earthsea, which she tried before but didn’t get in to.

Alex Rider
The Summoner series
Percy Jackson
How to train your dragon
My brother is a superhero

My 9 year old just dictated this list to me...

How to train a dragon
How to be a hero
The beano (!)
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson
13 storey treehouse series

Nearly 10yo is currently reading Hetty Feather. I've got her The Explorer and Kay's Anatomy for her birthday this week.

8yo finished the second Roman Mysteries book last night (the Vesuvius one) so will probably start book 3 today.

The Hamish series by Danny Wallace.

Currently part way through:
The Ickabog
Spy Dog
The Wee free Men - Terry Pratchett (really loved Amazing Maurice)
Tom Fletcher - Danger Gang (for 2nd time)

My 9 year old is quite young in reading tastes but very much enjoying Worst Witch, Amelia Fang, Witch Wars, Bad Mermaids, Holly Webb books (Penhallow Hall etc).

My 11 year old is much braver and likes - Abi Elphinstone, Vashti Hardy, MG Leonard, Kiran Millward Hargrave, Adam Baron, Sophie Anderson, Michelle Harrison, Katherine Rundell, Peter Bunzl

Land of Roar is good if they've enjoyed other fantasy world fiction - and the writing is high interest but accessible (my v bright but dyslexic son is managing it at the moment). Voyage of the Sparrowhawk (history/adventure). More fantasy: The House at the Edge of Magic, The Midnight Guardians. Vashti Hardy is popular here too.
Barrington Stoke are good for high interest but easier reading books.

Just gone nine year old here. Has loved The Explorer and Wolf Rider by Katherine Rundell. Land of Roar/Sam Wu is not afraid of../Dragon Legend all recent hits. If you have a library or a children’s bookshop (or a normal bookshop with a children’s sectionnear you take them and let them be inspired…

DS has a large gap between reading age and reading interest and we have found there is lots out there that works, for gaps larger or smaller, if you hunt - not sure from your post how far this is an issue though.

9yr old DS currently loving the Charlie changes into a chicken series by Sam Copeland. Also loves the 13-storey treehouse series, the dragonsitter books and Tom Gates.

Another current favourite is Our Other Lives by Pam Rae

Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy.

Fleur Hitchcock murder mystery books.

Previously liked:
Karen Ingliss
Rick Riordan
Harry Potter

My 9 year old tells me her favourite books are all the Harry Potter books, To be a cat, by Matt Haig, and 101 dalmatians by Dodie Smith

She is currently reading Carbonel, by Barbara Sleigh, which is "really brilliant" too.

She has a definite preference for books about animals and magic.

My 12 year old dd and 9 year old ds swap books quite a lot, there is loads that spans the age range.

Pages and Co (Tilly and the Book Wanderers)
The House with Chicken Legs (and others by the same author)
The Land of Roar

Dd has steadfastly read Morrigan Crow to ds until he got sucked in so he is reading the second of the series now, interspersed by Skullduggery Pleasant, also handed to him by his sister.

Murder Most Unladylike would probably be enjoyed by both too.

Essentially look up MG (middle grade) books.

9yo DS has enjoyed
Harry potter
Tom Fletcher books
Hamish series by Danny Wallace
David Baddiel books

I've just bought him the ikabog. He likes David Walliams too but I can't stand his books so rarely buy them.

DD loved Murder Most Unladylike series and Wonder at around that age.

9 year currently working her way through all the David Baddiel books here. They are fab. Much better than David Walliams (IMO!)

My 9 year old likes the Wolf Boy series ( not sure thats the correct name) by Michelle Paver.
David Walliams
Tom Gates
Wimpy Kid
Steve Backshall fiction books

DD (9) loved the Murder Most Unladylike series mentioned above, though she doesn't like the other books by the same author as much. She also likes the Ivy Pocket, Agatha Oddly and Scarlet and Ivy series.

Other favourites are:
Anna James' Tilly books which are along the same lines as the Train to Impossible Places books.
Sharna Jackson's Nik and Norva books
Katherine Rundell
Pseudonymous Bosch

At the moment she is reading the Swallows and Amazons books. I had no idea there were so many of them.

Ds has been Harry Potter obsessed for about 2 years, refusing to read anything else on his shelves this whole time.
Until the last half term when he packed a couple of doctor proctor books for holiday and really enjoyed them. He’s cautiously reading other things from his bookshelves now, he liked a couple of the David walliams ones, the boy who grew dragons trilogy, can’t remember what else. I’d like him to get into Tom Gates as I remember really enjoying these with dd2 but he’s been very resistant.
We read him a wide variety of things but he’s very fussy about what he reads to himself 😂

My daughters currently reading the warrior cat series, but before that was reading hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy..

Does no-one read Enid Blyton nowadays?

Yeah. He blasted through secret seven 3 years ago and the famous five by the time he was 8

Percy Jackson series (also got ds massively into the ancient Greeks

Any of the Pamela Butchart books

The journey to the river sea (old fashioned but DD loved it!)

Secret garden

Ooo I must dig out the house with chicken legs. I got it but DD was too young at the time.