What are your 9 year old girls favourite books?

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It’s dd’s 9th birthday at the end of this month and one of her favourite activities is reading.

She loves reading things that are magic/supernatural and also things that have a “danger” plot as she described.

She has the full collection of Roald Dhal books, various Isadora Moon, Mirabelle and Victoria Stitch books. She also has loads of rainbow fairy’s and animal books too.

In my basket so far is the second Victoria Stitch, and The Accidental Witch.

What sort of books do your 9 year olds enjoy reading?

DS1 loved these about that age www.emmafischel.com/witchworld/
Also Wings Fairy Detective Agency (first one is Operation Bunny) and First Aid for Fairies & Other Fabled Beasts

Arabella and Mortimer books? (sorry, not supernatural but amusing!)
How to Grow Dragons series.

Malory towers and most Enid Blyton dd adores, David Walliams books too. She's just starting tracey beaker

My Dd loves the warrior cat books. A warning that cats do die though and the first one was a bit emotional for Dd. But she got over it and raced through the next 15 books it so.

Fantastic. Thank you. I will check those all out

My DDs adored Malory Towers and St. Clare’s, and The Naughtiest Girl series. For slightly more modern boarding school stories, they enjoyed Trebizon. One of my DDs also liked Noel Streatfeild.

My youngest DD absolutely loved A Little Princess. I suggested The Secret Garden… she managed the first few pages, before telling me the book was terrifying. When I read it again I saw what she meant. The cholera scenes in India are truly nightmarish.

Some Malorie Blackman is good - Pig Heart Boy in particular. But don’t do what I did and let her read the Naughts and Crosses sequence at 9. After hearing my eldest enthuse about it, I read it. It is not particularly primary school appropriate.

The Creakers, The Danger Gang, The Christmasaurus and other books by Tom Fletcher. To be a Cat and others by Matt Haig. The Boy at the Back. Of the Class. Currently enjoying The Super Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson.

Adventures on trains
Harry Potter
Roman mysteries
Unicorn Academy, Zoes Rescue Zoo, Animal Ark type books

Its her ninth birthday next week and she's asked for Dr Who books. Not having much luck..

Have a look at
Rainbow Grey
The school for good and evil
Skullduggery Pleasent
Midnight for Charlie Bone.

All absolutly excellent 9-12 fantasy/danger books.

Was going to suggest Isadora Moon and Mirabelle which my almost 9 year old also loves. As she's already a fan she might like the Kitty books by Paula Harrison. Similar format - paperback chapter books with gorgeous illustrations. The Kitty books are orange, black and white and we have the first 8, and there's another 2 being published this year.

Five children and it
Animals of farthing wood
Hatmakers

Diana Wynne Jones- the Chrestomanci books especially
Carbonel- three books in the series
Storm Singers series by Lari Don

Wizards of Once.

The Murder Most Unladylike Series. Wizards of Once series by Cressida Cowell. Guardians of Magic by Chris Riddell. Mabel Jones series by Will Mabbit. I could keep going if you need more!

Jessica Townsend and the Morrigan Crow books are my daughter's favourites.

Amari and the Night Brothers too.

Murder most unladylike was a huge hit here. There are lots of them. Think the author is Robin Stevens?

The Pages and Co. series by Anna James is absolutely lovely. Loved by my 9 yo niece and my 10 yo ds too.

My DD loved the Stitch Head and Skeleton Keys books.

She's enjoyed some of the other ones listed here - Rainbow Grey and Victoria Stitch. She also liked the first few Starfell/Willow Moss books - we haven't read them all yet.

She has Rainbow Grey too and loved that.

Thank you all. I’ve managed to update my basket to plenty of new books

The worst witch, Tom Gates and the Dork Diaries.

Oo the worst witch could be a good shout. She watches that on Netflix

We love the warrior cat books here!

Dork Diaries and Mr Gum

So on my list I have

Victoria Stitch (book 2)
The Accidental Witch
The Never Girls (second box series)
Witch world
Operation Bunny
First Aid For Fairies.

Could find myself adding more