"Books about girls who have adventures"??

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For an age 7 reader.
Any suggestions???

His Dark Materials, at 7 she may be a bit young though - an idea for the future anyway!

Just remembered the Animal Ark series about a girl who wants to be a vet and has lots of adventures helping save various animals. I loved them as a child. I think they were written by Lucy Daniel's, perfect for your daughters age I would think?

Most of Sam Gayton's books have brilliant strong minded girl heroes though I've been reading them to mine not handing over for reading alone.

Pippi

The Firemaker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman

The Polar Bear Explorers Club series
Princess BMX
The Unadoptables (out July)
Sky Pirates (out July)
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant

Anything by Emma Carroll, especially Frost Hollow Hall, Letters from the Lighthouse or The Somerset Tsunami. I'd also recommend The Titanic Detective Agency by Lindsay Littleson.

The Nevermoor books by Jessica Townsend.
The Dreamsnatcher and Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone.
The Amelia Fang books by Laura Ellen Anderson
The Goth Girl books by Chris Riddell

Dave and Darcy Go to the Beach – a story about a young girl and her horse who go to the beach on their summer holidays and run into a few problems along the way!

Reading Ship of Shadows to my 7 yr old dd.
A Mighty Girl web site is a good resource.

Tam Lin by Lari Don is a beautiful picture book.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22581501-the-tale-of-tam-linn

Hamster Princess is a funny series by Ursula Vernon. (I know,it’s a hamster, not a girl, but she has to deal with her mother trying to get her to wear dresses and be ladylike). We read these on the Kobo. She wrote Castle Hangnail too.

Witch Wars
2nd Journey to the River Sea
A Girl Called Owl
The Girl Who Speaks Bear

Schoolship Tobermory series Alexander McCall Smith (group of children but 50% girls and they get an equal share of the action).
I think Lauren Child's Ruby Redfort books might be good too (spin off from her Clarice Bean ones)

Pippi Longstocking
Sophie series Dick King Smith
Ottoline mysteries - Young sleuth who lives independently while her adventurer parents send postcards
Mr Gum series

With Enid Blyton and indeed Swallows and amazons, if you are reading to her it is perfectly possible to make it less sexist as you read. Anne and Susan don’t do all the domestic chores in our readings.

Katie morag books are gorgeous and nice if she still wants a picture book.

Have a look at Stephanie Burgis' books, particularly The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson series :)

I think the Famous Five books are valid and a good opportunity to explain social history and how times and society changes.

Agatha Odlow
Secret of platform 13 and beyond platform 13
Harper
Amelia Fang
Bad Mermaids
Witch Wars
Adventures on Trains (main character is a boy but there are strong girls and my 8yo girl loves them)

Also the baby aliens series by Pamela Butchard

Amelia Fang
Owls of Blossom Wood (both to read herself)

Nevermoor (to read to her)
The new version of What Katy Did, and Four Children and It

In another year or two -Patricia Leitch's Jinny books. Not your average horsey books and they have other strong female characters in. Even some of the occasional "baddie" female characters are written with nuance. Plenty of adventure and danger- the descriptions of walking over the moors alone in a blizzard to find a stricken horse, walking into a wolf's lair and swimming her exhausted horse against the tide to rescue a frenemy have stuck with me for 30 years. She generally does the dangerous bits alone- there are none of the type of moments that Reese Witherspoon calls "What do we do now?". There is a little bit of mythical mystical woo sprinkled through the books but I quite liked it even though woo is not my thing. The male characters are pretty good too, especially Ken who is not a gender stereotype and also not at all a love interest ( in fact bar one crush in one of the later books that is pretty well written including the bucket of cold water moment, I don't think there is any lurrve interest at all).

Beware of the age thing though- The Magic Pony is very good and the death in it is well written but 7 probably too young for that one (She has to get the vet to have a pony shot. I told you it wasn't your average pony book) and the end of Horse of Fire might give her nightmares too young as well.

Helen Moss Adventure Island series. Basically Enid Blyton without the racism/sexism....

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The Nevermoor books by Jessica Townsend. The Dreamsnatcher and Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone. The Amelia Fang books by Laura Ellen Anderson The Goth Girl books by Chris Riddell

I was going to say Nevermoor!