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?

Daddy Long Legs

Oh I want to be a kid again, tucked up with a torch and an exciting new world to imagine!

Harriet the Spy.
Hurry home candy - although v sad in places.
Noel Streatfield - anything.
The silver sword

As grumpy said, David Walliams.

Also Michelle Paver.

I used to love books by Cynthia Harnett at around 10 - 11. It's historical fiction.

The series was The Exiles.

www.amazon.co.uk/Exiles-Hilary-McKay/dp/0340726911

Sorry for bad link earlier.

Just read Takver's thread, and have to add a vote for Patricia Wrede. Love the dragon princesses and the magic frying pan is one of my favourite stories!

Another one I bought as an adult because I remember loving the library's copy as a child is Jane Yolen's Dragon's Blood series.

Terry Pratchett's books for younger readers? The Bromiliad. Carpet People.

Patricia McKillip, Od Magic, Alphabet of Thorn (maybe not at 8 and 10)

Arthur and the Invisibles

The Never Ending Story

Elle Enchanted

Neil Gaimon's "Nation"

My dds similar age to yours, we like:

• Little House series
• Diana Wynne Jones (we are currently enjoying the Chrestomanci series).
• National Velvet, but we are reading that together as the language is a bit difficult.
• Cat Royal books by Julia Golding are great as the heroine is plucky!
• Other E.Nesbit books (she of Railway Children fame)
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Penderwick series by Jeanne Birdsall
• Just read The Search for Wondla (Tony DiTerlitzzi - who also did Spiderwick) and all really enjoyed it.
• Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane (tissues at the ready) by Kate DiCamillo

Thanks for starting thread!

Nation is by Terry Pratchett not Neil Gaiman. It's very good but has rather too many corpses for an eight year old I'd say.

I'd second Tamora Pierce. All her female characters tend to be strong and independent.

I think at that age I also liked Tom's Midnight Garden, The Diddakoi and most of the others that have already been mentioned.

Thanks Masked. (that's why I couldn't find our copy!). You're probably right about the age - wait a bit with that one.

If you can find English translatoons of any other Asrid Lindgrens. We loved the Emil books. And from France there's the Nicholas series.

Sorry... translations of any other Astrid Lindgrens

"Minnow on the Say" & anything by Philippa Pearce
Another vote for Joan Aiken
Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" series

Rumer Godden- obviously The Diddakoi, but the others too - Episode of Sparrows, Holly and Ivy
Lucy M Boston - the Green Knowe series (written about a real house that you can go round, Hemmingford Grey Manor)
The Arthur Ransomes?
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (the Book People have a sale on of her books, although the others are for older children)
Pollyanna etc - Eleanor Porter if they like Anne of GG and Emily
Completely agree the Dark is Rising, E Nesbit, Cynthia Harnett, family at one end street, Noel Streatfeild -gosh this is a wonderful thread - would that DS w/could read.
Paul Gallico - eg the Snow Goose
Alan Garner? I found him scary in the Weirdstone of Brisingamen, but loved the Owl Service
Funny - Captain Underpants (although in part comic strip, syntax and vocab complex) and the Diamond twins thrillers by Horowitz
Anything by Rosemary Sutcliff - we never got to see The Eagle, but the books in the Eagle of the 9th series are great.
Wind in the Willows
Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little

And - see another thread - Antonia Forest

My DDs are the same ages and read Dear Dumb Diary, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries (see a theme?).

DD1 is currently reading Phantom Tollbooth and loving it, just read Ida B and hated it, even though on paper she is Ida B.

Lots of kids like the Warriors series about cats.

Books of myths. You learn a lot too.

The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly. About a boy jealous of his younger sibling.