We're in a book rut -suggestions please

[Dancergirl]

For my 2 older dds aged 10 and 8.5. They are both v good readers, the younger one particularly so....so tend to read the same sort of thing.

They have read:

Loads of Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl, Malory Towers, St Clare's, Adventure series
Roald Dahl
Little Women plus the 3 books that come after
Anne of Green Gables (plus the ones that came after - dd2 really enjoyed these)
Pippi Longstocking
The Railway Children
Rose books by Holly Webb
My Story (historical stories and diaries)
Judy Blume books
Jacqueline Wilson (lots)

I've suggested Michael Morpurgo but not really interested. Any good suggestions?

Phillip Pullman.
What Katie did
Black beauty
Secret Garden
Anne Fine

Harry potter? Phillip Pullman northern lights trilogy?

How about the Narnia books?

Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Lively

Chalet school books?

Some good ideas here
Molly Moon and Eva Ibbotsen are good.
Joan Aitkins (?) a necklace of raindrops.
I'm sure I'll think of some more :)

More LM Montgomery. SHe wrote

Emily of New Moon
Emily's quest
Emily Climbs

Also a couple of Pat of Silver Bush books, and I think one Called Magic for Marigold.

The What Katy Did books.
The Chalet School Series
Malory Towers/ St Claires
Trebizon series
Flambards?
The Hobbit
Harry Potter?
Percy Jackson series?
Mr Gum series

We've got a Necklace of Raindrops - lovely book.

Not interested in Harry Potter - bit scarey I think.

I've heard of Eva Ibbotsen - what would you recommend of hers?

Charlotte Sometimes looks good.

Heidi.
The little princess and/or The secret garden
Charlotte's web
Ballet shoes (or any other Noel streatfield)
Little house on the prairie & sequels
The bullerby children books
Chalet school books
Another vote for narnia!

Ds (8) very high reading age, is working his way through 5avid walliams' books. Dd (12) I reading one of them, and loves it.

Definitely Eva Ibbotson. She wrote for different ages, try Star of Kazan and others in that age group.

I read and reread and still reread Tamora Pierce, start with Alanna, the Lioness series.

Also second Chalet school

Cynthia Voigt?

Lian Hearn

Shannon Hale

Other stuff in that retro vein:

Noel Streatfeild (Ballet Shoes etc)
The Hobbit
Narnia
All the other E Nesbit books (the Story of the Treasure Seekers is non-fantasy, almost all the others have magic in - I loved them all)
Diana Wynne Jones (modern but timeless)
Doctor Doolittle (but NOT the original printings which have some very dodgy racial stuff in them, the modern expurgated reprints)
Professor Branestawm
All the Joan Aiken short story collections (I could never get on with her novels personally)

Oh and the Mary Poppins books are worth a try
Second Secret Garden, A Little Princess is great but very sad in places.

Some classics like Tom sawyer and toms midnight garden?

Eva Ibbotson great but try Trixie Belden Stories - you can get them on Amazon -
My fave books as a complete bookworm child and my two girls nearly 11 and 9 are reading them now - just fantastic. There is a whole series and I can bet you they will love them - really exciting stories with a girl as the main character - you cant beat it!

The Borrowers - all 4 are fab
Noel Streatfields Gemma series (there are 4)

My two oldest girls are almost 10 and 8 1/4.
They tend to pass books back and forth between them.

Between them, their recent reads include
Any Michael Morpurgo books they haven't already read
Harry Potter series
Mr Gum
Skellig
Frozen in Time
The Little House On The Prairie Books
A couple of the Beverley Clearly ones
Black Beauty
Rikki Tikki Tarvi
and some Judy Blume.

I haven't read the other posts above, so sorry if I'm repeating suggestions

The family at one end street

And

The Little House on the Prairie Series
Heidi
The Mary Poppins books
The Narnia Series

Definitely Diana Wynne Jones.

Frances Hardinge's books Fly by Night and the sequel Twilight Robbery are wonderful.

DD (9, good reader) has just read Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy (first one is Dragonsong and really enjoyed them. (There is some very very obliquely mentioned sex at the end of the last one of the trilogy if that bothers you.)

They were recommended on this thread that I started a while back, which has loads of other good recommendations.

All the Eva Ibbotsen books I've read have been good.
How about the worst witch series for the younger one?

They've read all the Worst Witch books (I thought I wouldn't remember everything!). And they both loved the Ramona books (as did I as a child).

But some fantastic ideas here, thanks everyone.

Off to the library tomorrow!

Emily of new moon and 2 sequels by l m Montgomery. Cynthia Harnett. Geoffrey Trease (a cue for treason is a good one to start)

We've just finished the midnight zoo: fabulous book, thought provoking- appealed equally to ds1 and to me (as well as fitting the year 6 history curriculum- bonus)

Second Family From One End Street and Frances Hardinge's work (though probably a bit too tough for your younger DC).

I loved The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (as well as a lot that is recommended here)

Also "A Wrinkle in Time", Madeleine L'Engle

The House in Norham Gardens, Penelope Lively

The Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden (tho I think I might have been young teenage by then - but if they've read Judy Blume already, no worries)

Judith Kerr's When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is funny and very historically informative too.

The Ursula Le Guin Wizard of Earthsea books are great if they'd like fantasy.

These are books that have sat in my only-just-subconscious for the past 30 years!

Has Philip Reeves' books been mentioned? I really enjoyed those (only a couple of years ago!)