books that are emotionally challenging

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That's the instructions from school But no recommendations which was helpful!

I'm after books for a bright y5 girl with a reading and comprehension age of 13+ that will challenge and engage her emotionally (and wean her off harry potter!) I'm coming up against a brick wall because they're either suitable content wise for her age or they're suitable ability wise but there doesn't seem to be a happy medium of books that do both

Thanks in advance!

Not sure if emotionally challenging but my DS yr6 is currently reading Lord of the Flies and before that he read The Five People You Meet in Heaven. The latter made quite an impression and he talked about if quite a bit, lots of questions.

His dark materials, Pullman, blew our minds. Especially the last one.

(Precocious 9yr old DS with same reading levels as yours )

www.amazon.co.uk/Walter-Moers/e/B001JOSAUI
Fantastical stories invoking extreme imagination bit also hefty tomes that require dictionary reference. Outstanding books

The Tiffany aching series by terry pratchett. They do have sexual references but in what I would consider to be an appropriate way. Ie its a part of the tapestry but not smutty. So if you would cover dds eyes if you were visiting a farm and the sheep were at it probably not for you.
I'm reccomending them because they're excellent adventure stories with an emphasis on resourcefulness and a string female lead.

Ooh great suggestions! Lord of the Flies I remember doing at GCSE and remember squirming at even then! I Was considering pullman and have loaded them onto her kindle but not sure if she'll get more out of them later iyswim

The others I've not heard of at all so I'll go have a Google

I'm no prude BTW and have suggested she read ocean at the end of the lane by Neil gaiman but she's been put off been put off him because she didn't enjoy the graveyard book

George's Secret Key to the Universe www.amazon.co.uk/dp/055255958X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_nk82ub1BCV2NN
A joint enterprise between Stephen hawking and his daughter Lucy.
Really good kids book that normalises some high end science

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178033981X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_4m82ub04CM583

I haven't read this but it comes up on my amazon suggestions and has a great review from Neil gaiman.

Also jonney and the bomb, truckers, diggers and wings all by pratchett

Also the lemony snickett series. Would be a brilliant bridge between her actual age and her reading age.

Narnia series

Alice in wonderland
Gullivers travels.

This is what I do. I seek out good books and proselytise about them.
I love these threads.
And young children you get excited by book suggestions

Shes read the lemony snickett books (challenged my sister as to who could get through them the fastest and they both got bored half way through the series lol) and she's made a half arsed attempt at narnia but again read a couple and got bored with the rest of the series.

I'll certainly put your other recommendations to her!

Not 'emotionally challenging' as such, but Frances Hardinge's books might be worth checking out, for complex language and plot, whilst still being perfectly suitable for yr 5. I love the use of names in Fly by Night particularly (Eponymous Clent being my favourite).

Has she read The Sword in the Stone; lots of complex ideas and again beautiful use of language.

Street Child by Berlie Doherty. About the reasons why Bernardo's was founded.

Anne of Green Gables series.

Swallows & Amazons.

Weirdstone of Brinsingamen by Alan Garner. Forced to read it in Year 5 and Year 8. Hated it!

Family From One End Street, which I loved.

Love, Aubrey

Beautiful book made me cry

Second the Anne books, no inappropriate content there but emotionally could stretch her if she can t round the language (very good for her vocabulary though)
Emily series by the same author
And the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett was another great suggestion.
Can't remember what age I was but I used to love Tamora Pierce still waiting for them to come out on Kindle

Holes is brilliant - recommended by dd's y5 teacher.

The Bridge tomTerrabithia by K Paterson - content is fine for a year 5 and whilst it is not a diffickt read it it is very emotional and makes you think about friendship etc.

There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom by Loiis Sachar - about bullying but it makes you look at the bully in a different light. Written with humour. It does make you think.

Wonder by RJ Palacio - about. Abou with a facial deformity and how he copes. Beautiful story. Heart rending in parts.

Once by Maurice Gleitzman - WW2 through thr eyes of a h young Jewsih boy trying to avoid the Nazis and find his family. Sad. Emotional. Beautifully written

I'm truly amazed that no-one has recommended Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Choose that [gavel]

The Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin are wonderful - I really enjoyed them at a similar age

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0140348034/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1423694874&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=earthsea&dpPl=1&dpID=51XYHANBB9L&ref=plSrch

Good night Mr tom is emotionally challenging. Our school reads it in year 6.

Ursula Le Guin books are fab. Also those by Dianna Wynn Jones, alth can't recall enough to be certain of age appropriateness

Diana Wynne Jones would be absolutely fine. Homeward Bounders is heartbreaking :( (At least, I found it so as a teenager, wept buckets.) The Power of Three is also lovely.

Should say, while I read them as a teenager, they'd be ideal for yr 5, I am just old so they weren't written until I was in secondary!

GOodnight Mr Tom is absolutely fantastic! Also Kensuke's kingdom by Michael Morpurgo is a book you can get a lot out of.

I also loved a series set in Northern Ireland during the troubles, of a couple of teenagers from across the divide, but can't recall titles / author