Dd 8 what to read next?

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She has read and LOVED nearly everything by Linda Chapman, Amelia Cobb, Dotty Detective and Rescue Princesses.

She has read Harry Potter 1-5, which she liked.

She has hugely enjoyed reading the How to train your Dragon series but doesn't like anything by David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton or the the Worst Witch series .

I think she likes stories with adventurous female characters who rescue things She's is a strong and keen reader.

Please help!

Loves magical stories........

The Abbie Longstaff Trapdoor Mysteries, Pippi Longstocking, Secret Garden, Alice in Wonderland, 5 Children and It, The Kitty books by Paula Harrison

Violet and the Pearl of the Orient. There is a series of them (all are violet and...), it’s girl who goes on adventures and plays detective.

Along the same lines as Linda Chapman and Amelia Cobb, has she read the Secret Mermaid series by Sue Mongredien or the Silverlake Fairy School series by Elizabeth Lindsay. There are also a large number of Lucy Daniels animal rescue books ‘donkey on the doorstep’ etc. Oooo also that reminds me there is a series by Helen Peters, ‘A Piglet called truffle’ etc which my daughter also enjoyed.

My daughter also likes a strong adventurous female lead - but, in contrast to yours, loves Enid Blyton and in that vein has progressed into similar but contemporary writers like Helen Moss (Adventure Island series) and Lauren St John (Laura Marlin series). I know she would thoroughly recommend both of these.

Trapdoor Mysteries and Violet and the Pearl of the Orient look great, thanks. The Kitty books also look good but are they for slightly younger dc?

A Piglet called truffle looks lovely too. She's read some of the Lucy Daniels but is not hugely into them.

Jacqueline Wilsom
EE Nesbit
Secret Garden
Anne of GG
Humphrey Hamster

Sounds similar taste to my DD. The Scarlett and Ivy series and Robin Stevens' murder series has gone down well.

Has she tried the Chrestomanci series? She might be a little young for Tamora Pierce (more like 10+ I would think) for strong adventurous female leads.

The Accidental Pirates?

Pages and Co (Tilly and the Book Wanderers)

Sophie Anderson (House with Chicken Legs, Girl who Speaks Bear)

The Mask of Aribella

Pippi Longstocking

Dragon Mountain

The Midnight Guardians

The Land of Roar

With support to understand cultural context Little House series.

The Kitty books may be for slightly younger readers. You can read a sample chapter of the Kitty books on the Oxford Owl website cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2019/09/11/09/24/33/5809d3b8-92ae-472d-ae6c-6a8514c82d33/Kitty_FreeChapter.pdf

Also have a look at the Robin Stevens series, my daughter loved them.

Amelia Fang
Highland Falcon Thief and it's sequels
Zoe's rescue zoo

My two are currently working their way through a pile of original Animal Ark books O found in the charity shop.

My DD has just turned 9 and, like yours, she absolutely loves adventure. After reading the HP series she read the Nevermoor trilogy, which she thought was brilliant. She’s recently finished the His Dark Materials trilogy and is currently reading Little Women. My MiL bought her the Land of Stories set by Chris Colfer, which she is also excited to read.

So many amazing recommendations, thank you.

A friend sent me here to get ideas as my DD is in a similar position, 8 but a strong reader and v into magic, just finished HP5 too and obsessed with HTTYD.

Her other favourites are the other Cressida Cowell series, Wizards of Once (or sth?) which she now loves even more than dragons.

Another cheer for Land of Roar, also the sequel, and a third is expected this summer.

The other recent success, and bigger books so they keep her busy longer, is the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. She's just read 1-3 and I found 4 in the library available for collection so I'm pleased she'll be kept busy for another 2 days at least!

For an easier read which she still loves, the Beast Quest series have gone down well.

We haven't bought them yet but Train to Impossible Places looked good too, and the Eragon series possibly for a year's time.

And finally the Hobbit! She read a lot of it solo but it was a bit more of a read together one tbh she absolutely loved it and I can't wait to get her free to start reading LOTR.

Rigjt, I'm off to see which of these is available from the library click and collect service!

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A friend sent me here to get ideas as my DD is in a similar position, 8 but a strong reader and v into magic, just finished HP5 too and obsessed with HTTYD.

Her other favourites are the other Cressida Cowell series, Wizards of Once (or sth?) which she now loves even more than dragons.

Another cheer for Land of Roar, also the sequel, and a third is expected this summer.

The other recent success, and bigger books so they keep her busy longer, is the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. She's just read 1-3 and I found 4 in the library available for collection so I'm pleased she'll be kept busy for another 2 days at least!

For an easier read which she still loves, the Beast Quest series have gone down well.

We haven't bought them yet but Train to Impossible Places looked good too, and the Eragon series possibly for a year's time.

And finally the Hobbit! She read a lot of it solo but it was a bit more of a read together one tbh she absolutely loved it and I can't wait to get her free to start reading LOTR.

Rigjt, I'm off to see which of these is available from the library click and collect service!

Great recommendations, thank you! I had thought about The Hobbit for DD but remember really struggling with it when I was younger - although DD’s reading seems to be much further advanced than mine was. I’m going to get it for her.

Nevermoor series is brilliant and just what you are looking for. My family all love this series (adults included). Also enjoyed how to train your dragon, Wizards of once, Jasper ffordes last dragonslayer series and a new book called amari and the night brothers.

What about the Joan Aiken's Dido Twite series?

The Hunger Games has a strong female heroine- she may like that .

I second the recommendation of the Sophie Anderson books. They absolutely deserve to be classics.

Also if she enjoys horsey books look at the Seaview Stables series.

Chronicles of Narnia? My ds was not a reader until he read 'the boy in the back if the class' at 7.

I considered hunger games but I'm tempted to say that's a bit old for an 8yr old, especially a newly turned 8, what do others think?

Hunger Games isn't a book I would give either my nearly 8 or nearly 10yo. Nowhere near mature enough to understand it. However it's probably similar to the later Harry Potter books and some people let their young children read them.