How to follow Harry Potter?

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So for the past 2 years I have read the Harry Potter books to my almost 11 year old. We are about to finish the last book and she's asking what's next.
How do I follow Harry Potter? Is the hunger games a good one? Any other suggestions?

• she's dyslexic and struggles reading so it will be me reading out loud to her

The Percy Jackson series is a good one, the works have the 5 books as a set for £10 (first two have been made into films). The Enola Holmes series is another good one, again in the works, with a film available on Netflix. The Pennyroyal Academy Series are also worth a look.

Percy Jackson,
Maybe Hunger Games or Divergent Series.

Probably a bit young for Noughts and Crosses still?

my whole family loved the Jonathon Stroud books - Bartimaeus series and (possibly slightly older) the Lockwood Series.

Hunger games is for older kids

Maze runner?

My 10 year old is really enjoying the Robert Muchamore Robin Hood series.

The 'His Dark Materials ' trilogy by Philip Pullman is really good

Audio books!

The Skandar series (AF Steadman)
The Morrigan Crow series (Jessica Townsend)

Murder most unladylike is the only series my 11 year old DD has gotten into since Harry Potter.

Murder most unladylike series. I’ve not read them but my 14 yo has read them over the last couple of years with her dad and they love them! I think hunger games is too old for 11

Great minds! Had already typed mine before I saw yours!

Also recommend the skandar series, and the percy jackson books. Also the skullduggery pleasant books. DS10 also likes the young James bond books by charlie higson - for something non fantasy.

Another one here for Skandar, Murder most unladylike, and city spies

Anything by Katherine Rundell she has written 4 books, I think, and although they are not a series they are really well written .

Perhaps start with Impossible Creatures.

Also Hannah Gold, The Last Bear is a really good book.

My 11-yr old loved The Hunger Games - I wasn't sure it was suitable but he's very sensible/mature for his age. (My other kid won't be ready for them til he's about 21 so it's horses for courses 😁)

They both enjoyed the first Skandar one (we listened to the audiobook) but had lost interest a bit by the second.

The Alex Rider series is good but again, you might think it's a bit old.

Have you thought of The Hobbit? We read it together and then my 11-yr old went straight back and read it again!

Another option is the Redwall books by Martin Jaques, maybe.

Definitely Percy Jackson, in my daughter’s opinion as well as my own it’s actually better than HP. Me and my daughter absolutely love the hunger games but make sure she’s not too sensitive, there’s a lot of death

After Harry Potter my DD (now 11) read:

His Dark Materials series
The Katherine Rundell books
The Wild Robot series
The new Cressida Cowell books (not the How To Train Your Dragon ones, though they’re good too)
Percy Jackson books
I also managed to read Pride & Prejudice and Emma to her and she enjoyed both

She’s now started The Hunger Games - devoured the first book and now half way through the second!

Someone mentioned on another thread The Chalet School books, which I vaguely remember reading, so might try those next and maybe something like the Enola Holmes books and follow them up with the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

DD loved Harry Potter - reading the books together helped get us through lockdown
Afterward she has lived the first two Hunger Games books, but not the third as it’s a bit more about the politics, and they don’t have reaping or a games
Shes currently loving the Miss Peregrines books by Ransom Riggs

The first three of Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books are great. There are five in total, but the fourth is very dark, so worth checking that yourself first.

Tamora Pierce Tortall series, particularly Keladry Protector of the Small but of you want to do them all start with Alanna the Lioness.

This was going to be my suggestion too!

Thank you everyone we have a good list to go with now.

We decided to start with Murder most unladylike :)

Another vote for the Morrigan Crow books, think I liked them even more than DD!

If you are still looking for recommendations what about Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence? The first three are terrific.

Murder most Unladylike
The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman (2 in this series so far)
The Adventures on Train Series
Kar Wolfe series - on Thin Ice is our favourite