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More book recommendations needed please!

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Hiddeninplainsight · 22/01/2018 17:14

My DD is an avid reader, and I have run out of ideas for her. Her current favorites (the ones she reads and then re-reads) are:

Kate O'Hearn - Valkyrie series & Pegasus series
Rick Riordan (everything he has ever written)
Garth Nix
Diary of a wimpy kid

She loves Philip Pullman (Northern lights & Book of Dust - haven't allowed her to read Sally Lockheart)

She also has read Wonder and the sequal and really enjoyed them - this was a change from her normal book choices.

She has read and enjoyed:
Lots by Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter
Lloyd Alexander (Prydain series)
Narnia books
The Hobbit
Lord of the rings books 1& 2
Ali sparks shapeshifters
Artimus Fowl
Tiffany Aching series (Terry Pratchet)
Clive Barker Arabat series
Murder most unladylike (she enjoys these but doesn't love them)
Maz Evans (who let the gods out)

She didn't get into:
Susan Cooper
Alana series by Tamara Pierce
Earthsea
David Eddings Belgariad

(she read went through a boarding school phase before all of the above and read all the Enid Blyton books then).

Any recommendations for more of the the same we may not have considered (she is still in primary school, so nothing with sex or very adult themes - she has read relationship stuff - from HP and Rick Riordan, but it is all very innocent, and I think she is too young for the Hunger Games type thing) would be fantastic (I know I have asked before but I can't find the threads!!!). Wonder was a new book choice from her, and so I am wondering if there might be some other similar types of books she might enjoy.

Thanks!

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BlueChampagne · 24/01/2018 12:43

DS1 is in Y6 and recommends:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lari Don's Fabled Beast Chronicles
Caroline Lawrence's Roman Mysteries

Rosemary Sutcliffe?

Tazmumof2 · 01/02/2018 03:25

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codswallopandbalderdash · 07/02/2018 11:30

don't know how old your daughter is but skulduggery pleasant series is good - although they get darker and darker as the series progress so may not be suitable ...

Hiddeninplainsight · 11/02/2018 23:12

Thanks all. Some she has read, and some she hasn't. I will throw some of them her way and see what she thinks!

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Waddlelikeapenguin · 15/02/2018 20:11

Lady grace mysteries
First aid for faries etc Lari Donn
Rangers apprentice series
Jessica Day George - the retold fairy tale ones (others might be too fantasy despite being brilliant) Princess of the midnight ball, princess of the silver woods, princess of glass
Wrede - thirteenth child
Gilda joyce series
Birchbark house series to read alongside Little house on the prairie

jhb2013 · 15/02/2018 20:55

The terrible thing that happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne is excellent. Very funny and a good message at the end.

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Chillywhippet · 17/02/2018 15:46

Michael Morpurgo’s Born to Run was a big hit. Spy Dog books were fun. Wolf Brother enjoyed too.

If she’s year 5 or 6 mine liked

Mary Hooper’s historical novels like At the Sign of the Sugared Plum and At the House of the Magician and Eliza Rose (but not the teenage books like Meg)

Cathy Cassidy - Girl Missing series but they get darker

DD has just reminded me she liked this Fun spy stories series with low key romance - Ally Carter Gallagher Girls, although looking at the covers on Amazon the pictures look a bit older Confused

But then she definitely read all the Hunger Games books in primary and took them in her stride but of course you know what would suit your DD

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