Books for 9 yr old dd.. she thinks books her age are babyish !

[Louisa111]

Need some advice .. our 9 yr old dd is complaining that a lot of her books are just not interesting her anyone but I'm
Completely stuck about what books to get.
She usually reads
Diary of a wimpy kid,
Harry Potter
Fairy books,
David Walliams books etc

Just lately she says these are a bit babyish and wants books that are more real life but I feel she's too young for teenage books .. she is quite grown up for her age so any recommendations would be appreciated 😊

Perhaps Island of Adventure (not the Enid Blyton version) would be suitable.
Written for intelligent children who crave credible real life adventure stories. The boy and girl twins in the tale have equal prominence in this adventure.
Have a "Look inside" to get a feel for the book. Print and ebook.
Link to book on Amazon uk

Skandar 1&2, absolutely brilliant

What Katy Did
The silver sword is an amazing book
The secret garden
The little princess
Enid Blyton
Ballet shoes
White boots

Take her to a bookshop or library and let her spend as long as she wants browsing and choosing for herself.
I was reading teenage fiction at that age and have grown in to a normal enough adult.

@Louisa111 how is your DD getting on now? Has she tried anything new?

I was going to suggest Year of the Dog by Grace Linn* or maybe a Judy Blume?

Some of Jacqueline Wilson's books are aimed at younger kids. There's a list, with ages, on her website. They're definitely real life!

My 10 yo DD recently read and loved the ‘Can you see me?’ series about a young girl’s experience of living with autism.

Do you mean How to be Brave and How to be True? They are by Daisy May Johnson.

Strongly agree with the suggestions of Murder Most Unladylike, Malory Towers, and Percy Jackson.
Also Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend was popular with my DD.

Some popular rl ones with mine when they were that age:
Fish in a tree
Out of my mind
Wonder
The war that saved my life
Anna at war

Also all the raina telgemeier graphic novels were a big hit

We all also love nevermoor, not real life though!

Look for Newbery Medal winner books (there is a list of them on Wiki) Award winning literature written for kids. Far better than most of the books available for kids atm.

No, I just checked with her and it was ‘how to bee’ (never heard of it personally)

Astrid Lingren? The Bullerby Children is great. The 10 year old in my life enjoyed Lingren's Ronja the Robber's Daughter last summer and recently Frida Nilsson's Ape Star. The last one is more or less real world - you do have to accept a gorilla talks, reads, and is capable of driving. But I hope if your DD liked Harry Potter and fairies, she doesn't want to foreswear off fantasy or even light fantastical elements altogether.

At that age my daughter loved Percy Jackson, Lemony Snicket and Jacqueline Wilson. I work in year 5 and that still stands it seems!

Diana Wynne Jones's 'Chrestomanci' series, of which the first is 'The Lives of Christopher Chant'.

I remember really enjoying some collections of retellings of stories at that age - 'Tales from Shakespeare', 'Tales from the Arabian Nights', and a lovely Orchard book of 'stories from the ballet' (I had no interest in ballet but loved the stories).

Caroline Lawrence Roman mysteries series (Ancient Rome pretty good historical detail & pre teen detective heroine)

This website Booksfortopics is all you need.
Recommendations from librarians, teachers etc by year group or topic. It has 'branching out' lists for children that like a particular author too. Lots of new books that you might not know about are included. In my experience many children don't want to read the same books their parents did - mine turn their nose up at all my old favourites!

Anyone who likes Eva Ibbotson might be interested in Escape to the River Sea which is a follow on book about the next generation (different author).

I found this book interesting - How Dad made me a superhero. My 7 year old read this quite a few time on just 2 days .. He's actually overcoming his little fears and open to explore the scary situations. I happy with this book.

I would suggest letting her choose her own books from a large library.

Swallows and Amazons?

Books by Sharon Creech pack an emotional wallop. Maybe too much for a 9 yo though.

A good many books by Kate do Camillo plumb some serious depths even though they don't all feature humans.
Because of Winn Dixie
The Tale of Desperaux
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Anna of Byzantium, by Teacy Barrett

Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
Also, The Midwife's Apprentice, by Cushman, and The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse
Aleutian Sparrow, by same author
Safekeeping, same author (a dystopian novel)

God Went to Beauty School, by Cynthia Rylant

Bat 6, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan
The Macinac trilogy by the same author

My dd loved the cookie books by konnie huq, she's the same, she doesn't like magical type books. Prefers real life/diary type ones

Seconding Jacqueline Wilson and Lottie brooks! Also Babysitters club, a kind of spark, the geek girl series.

Op.....rick Riordan and the Percy Jackson stories are brilliant. Also Michael morpurgo writes some beautiful animal stories

Also, all the books by the author of “the boy at the back of the class” (Rauf?) are fantastic - including the shorter one (the great food bank robbery) published by barrington stoke.