Any fun and inspiring books for 8+ to recommend?

[LuluS122020]

My daughter is a book worm and a fast reader. She likes Enid Blyton most and has completed the whole series of The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and more. I’d like to expand her scope, particularly on the lookout for fun and inspiring books, can be for either boys or girls. Advanced vocabulary and creative writing would be a bonus. Not those with a dark theme or tragedy though. When she was little, she was scared of even The Big Bad Wolf!

the ickabog
worst witch
the lion the witch and the wardrobe
michael mopurgo books
harry potter

She sounds like my dd. Has she read the Malory Towers and St Claire's books?

Pseudonymus Bosch books
CS Lewis series
David Walliams.

"The name of this book is secret " by Psydomous Bosh.
There are 5 books, 'if you are reading this it is too late', 'this isn't what it looks like' etc.
Really good adventure stories. My 8 year old is loving them.
He also loves Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl etc

I'd like to recommend the Lone Pine series by Malcolm Saville. Mine progressed from Famous Five to them.
The first in the series is Mystery at Witchend and is set during WWII so a little different, but they are very exciting.

Also for FF fan I can recommend Naitabal Mystery series
He's a second hand book seller, but he wrote this series for children which ds loved. They talk a secret language (which he picked up quickly and used!) and have adventures, and there's a rival gang as well! If you email him and ask, he may still have some stock. I think they may be on Amazon too, but if you get them from him, he may well sign them, and your dc can email him, which even ds, who hates writing, thought was very exciting!

Joan Aiken A Necklace of Raindrops
Little Wolf's Book of Badness Ian Whybrow
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Moomins by Tove Jansson
The Dolls House by Rumer Godden
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
The Polar Bear Explorers Club by Alex Bell
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Stuart Little by E. B. White

Sounds like my DD too. Between 7 and 8 she mainlined all of EB books, Famous 5, Secret 7, Malory Towers and St Clares. After that, series she has really enjoyed include:
Adventure Island series by Helen Moss
The Clifftoppers series by Fleur Hitchcock
The Power of Poppy Pendle series by Natasha Lowe
The Witch School series Em Lynas
Violet mysteries by Harriet Whitehorn.
The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall

She is just about to start Harry Potter so we will see how that goes.

Thank you all! I've got a long list to work on now.

Of those you have mentioned, she also finished The Worst Witches, EB's Malory Towers and Adventures series, nearly finished Harry Potter...

Series to add to previous great suggestions:

School ship Tobermory
Anna James’ pages & co
How to train your dragon

Archie Greene
Adventures of Algy
Witchworld
Fairy Detective Agency series
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Olga da Polga

Books by Kate DiCamillo will stretch and entertain in a magical way.

The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane was brilliant.

Came across Eddie, Ellie and Robot Rob,
Also James Patterson's House of Robots. My son is into robots at the moment, but they are funny and inspiring.

I run a website called Tangle Tales (www.tangle-tales.com).

It's a website to promote childrens books to help them understand feelings and experiences they may struggle with and themes such as confidence, anxiety and family dynamics.

There's plenty of books with reviews and further reading on there :)

Fast readers may like a long series - there are 13 volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, which my DD really loved.