My 9 yr old DD likes series books....any ideas?

[TinyPanic]

My 9 yr old DD has devoured pretty much all the Enid Blyton Series of books, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Five Finder Outers, Adventurous Four, Six Cousins, The Island Series, St Clares, Mallory Towers. She has also read the Helen Moss Adventure Island Series. She only wants to read books that come in a 'series' because if she loves a book she likes to read more in the same vein. She has just started The Penderwicks and I am already thinking about what I can find for her next! Please recommend me some non-scary series of books.

I remember those days! Here are some suggestions I enjoyed at a similar age.

Narnia
the Green Knowe series by Lucy M Boston
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The Earthsea quartet by Ursula K Le Guin
Swallows and Amazons

Roman mysteries (slightly scary)
Willard Price
Nancy Drew/Hardy boys
Chalet School
Monica Edwards (see Girls Gone by Publishing)
Crestomancy series (Diane Wynne Jones)
Joan Aiken

Ramona? there are quite a few of them
Green Knowe is a good suggestion.
I always loved Chalet School too

Isabel Allende,
about some awesome kids who go on amazing adventures with the coolest granny in the universe. Particularly good if your looking to push the strong female characters angle

Walter moers,

Not strictly a series but all interconnected, really proper kid fiction, they are enormous books but with big spacing and bus letters and fantastic author drawn illustration throughout. Good for expanding a good vocabulary (a dictionary will be required for some words as they are so obscure) and also for the feeling if achievement if have read such a huuuuuge book.

For something contemporary mine has just read the Daisy Star series by Cathy Cassidy. She has loved them. We have all my old Blyton books etc but as a Jacquline Wilson fan and former Rainbow Magic addict she likes try new books. The older series Chocolate box girls is lovely I read it! As there are so many books to explore I felt she could wait to read these till she is closer in age to the 12/13 yr olds in the story.

I loved the 'What Katy Did' books when I was that age.

Anne of Green Gables
Wolf Brother and following books ( but watch out for chapter one, it's scary)

Lemony Snicket
Diary of a wimpy kid

Lots of books in both those series which would keep your DC going for some time

Warrior cats.

Series after series. Dd adores them.

Try Anne Mcaffrey

Another one for the Lemony Snicket series. The whole family absolutely loved them, I highly recommend them.

Lady Grace Mysteries, by Grace Cavendish (Elizabethan)

39 clues - dd has only read the first one, but there are lots more - guessing they're aiming for 39.

Another vote for Anne of Green Gables.
What about the Little House books?
If you can find them, she might enjoy the Chalet School if she liked Mallory Towers and St Clares.
Noel Streatfield has some great books. There's one series that I can think of, the "Gemma" books. There are 4 of them. There are also the "shoes" books which aren't a series as such but follow similar themes. There's Ballet Shoes, Tennis Shoes, White Boots (known as skating shoes in America I think)

Jux I've only just discovered the Lady Grace mystery books in my library and I love them as Tudor history is a passion of mine and I'm 38 (rather old fashioned tho, with lots of odd words which we don't use these days)

2nd the Noel Streatfield books - I have read them all to DD over the years as they are falling to pieces where my 3 dsis and I reread them over and over. DD loved the Gemma series and white boots but we both found Ballet shoes hard going as lots of ballet dialogue neither of us understood (and my dmum was a professional Ballet dancer so I actually grew up with lots of the lingo). She also loved Thursday's child by Noel Streatfield too.

Little house on the Prairie books were great too altho again lots of dialogue about gun cleaning and butter making which I skipped a lot of as again I read them to DD as they too were falling to pieces. She especially loved Farmer Boy which was about Laura I W husband as a boy.

Lemony Snicket, definitely. DDs devoured them at around that age.

And The Spiderwick Chronicles.

I got the first in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques for my ninth birthday and loved it. Lots to go at there.

His dark materials by Pullman or the Tiffany Aching books by Pratchett.

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross

Trebizon for boarding school books with a more modern feel. By Anne Digby.

On the run series for something modern.

Thank you so much! Lots of great ideas here that I am sure she would love. Now, where to start..........

Liz Kessler has 2 series. My daughter really loves the Emily Windsnap series and we'll move on to the Phillipa Fisher series.

My eldest just turned ten and is reading the Ally's World Series quicker than I can buy them!!

Another series that's really good is the Emily series by L M Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables). There are three books, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest.