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!

Normally i wouldnt recommend Hunger Games for an 8 year old no, but given she’s read the later Harry Potter books, it might be suitable.
Ive known plenty of Year 6 children read Hunger Games

My DD (8) has loved the Witch series by Kate Umansky.

Also the Lightning Girl series by Alesha Dixon. Both of these are about girls doing magic, which is her favourite thing

Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Mrs Pepperpot
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe et seq (I remember reading Dawn Treader in Y4)
Think I read The Hobbit aged just 9 no problem. Got bogged down in LoTR two years later, though S1 read it around his 8th birthday

Tiffany Aching series by Sir Pterry - first one is The Wee Free Men

E Nesbit - 5 Children and It, the Enchanted Castle etc
A Little Princess
The Borrowers
Alice in Wonderland/TTLG

The Secret World of Polly Flint
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler
The Family from One End Street
Lizzie Dripping
The Dolls House (Rumer Godden)
The Diddakoi
The Children of Green Knowe
Swallows and Amazons

Just an idle thought: has anyone tried giving the Blandings Castle or Jeeves stories to a primary child?

The "Connie Companion" quartet. Magical, and a strong female protagonist.
"The Search for Delicious" by Natalie Babbit is good too, and Beverley Nichols trilogy " The Tree That Sat Down", "The Stream That Stood Still" , and "The Mountain of Magic" have magic and a strong girl. Then "The Worst Witch" stands alone but it's the with from the other three.
Lynne Reid Banks' "The Farthest Away Mountain fits your bill too.
Magical but with a boy as the main character, are "Ludo and the Star Horse" by Mary Stewart , and "The Brothers Lionheart" by Astrid Lindgren. They are lovely stories.
Also, Susan Cooper has boys and girls as her main characters, and plenty of Magic in her stories. Not just the "Dark is Rising" series, but her other books are fab too.

Just an idle thought: has anyone tried giving the Blandings Castle or Jeeves stories to a primary child?

I loved these at 12: just the right kind of book for kids who have grown a bit out of children's lit but not yet ready for adult novels. I'm not sure they would keep the attention of kids younger than that, though.

For some reason the book my friends and I were all reading in my final year of primary school was The Hitchhiker's Guide. Is it really suitable for 10 and 11 year olds in retrospect? We thought it was absolutely uproarious though, and used to quote bits in the playground! Sounds like madness these days, though tbh I can't see how it's any less suitable than lots of current YA lit.

No to the hunger games for an 8 year old. It's far too violent, disturbing.
Scarlet and Ivy yes - these are great, but be prepared for chats about corporal punishment and sending girls off to the asylum
Spiderwick Chronicles is great

Can't agree with Mrs Pepperpot - those books are dull

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Just an idle thought: has anyone tried giving the Blandings Castle or Jeeves stories to a primary child?

I loved these at 12: just the right kind of book for kids who have grown a bit out of children's lit but not yet ready for adult novels. I'm not sure they would keep the attention of kids younger than that, though.

For some reason the book my friends and I were all reading in my final year of primary school was The Hitchhiker's Guide. Is it really suitable for 10 and 11 year olds in retrospect? We thought it was absolutely uproarious though, and used to quote bits in the playground! Sounds like madness these days, though tbh I can't see how it's any less suitable than lots of current YA lit.

My DS (11) loves the Jeeves books, and absolutely adores Hitch-Hiker's ... although you're right, there are some bits that are borderline inappropriate, but not in a disturbing way. Just sex and drunkenness. Sometimes I read it aloud to him as a bedtime story (we still do those), and I live in fear we'll happen across one of the bits about Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6, and he'll ask me what a whore is, or an orgasm ... ! But generally we agree to skip over the saucy bits and it doesn't seem to be doing him any harm.

The Tree that sat down by Beverly Nichols. It a series of books which are brilliant and the witches are very clever.

Which witch Eva Ibbotson about matchmaking a warlock to a witch very funny!

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell is fantastic; I’ve read a couple of others by her with children in my class and they’re enthralled by all of them so far. A lot of exploration based stories which have so far prompted research by the kids! I’ve got Year 6 who read The Explorer pre lockdown in Year 5 and a lot are still obsessed with the Amazon Rainforest!

Just William they are so funny

Pippi Longstocking
Journey to the river sea
The Ordinary Princess

If she liked the How to Train Your Dragon series she will LOVE the Wizards of Once by the same author