life after Harry Potter

[Angela855]

My daughter has loved all the Harry Potter books and is now bereft. any ideas what she can read next? other books seem a bit tame now. She's 9 going on 35

I would have reservations about His Dark Materials at 9 too, but it does depend on the child and if OP's DD has managed all the Harry Potter books then will probably be ok.

I would definitely suggest it's a series for you to read together though.

My DD is 10 (11 in September) - we've just read Northern Lights & are a few chapters in to The Subtle Knife. The concepts & vocab are pretty advanced (my DD is Level 5a for reading) so it's handy to have an adult to clarify things.

They are amazing books, but there are some distressing bits - "Where's my Ratter" is still haunting me weeks after reading that bit, although tbf DD has been completely unfazed.

Place marking... Dd is 9 in November and is desperate to read the goblet of fire. I'm trying to pace her! I can see a massive HP come down after it all. I have some Eva ibbotson books, but she wasn't interested. Hopefully it was just to 'old' for her and we can come back to it.

HDM is very very sad in parts. I am planning to reread when I finish rereading HP. I think it will affect me more now that I have children. HP has loads.

I was going to say eurgh no way to Twilight, but then I thought nine is probably quite a good age to read Twilight really. Because by the time you look back at it, you'll think "What piffle!" and probably come across loads of stuff pointing out the crap side of it on the internet before you're old enough to start dating.

This is perfect we have finished Harry Potter and tonight we finished second Perry Jackson series, Heroes of Olympus. We have also read His Dark Materials, dd (9) found it very sad in places. We read the Hunger Games but I thought Catching Fire and Mockingly too much just yet. We have read the Hobbit and the Narnia books (not last book).

I loved the Dark is Rising series and Diana Wynne Jones books when I was younger, so we might try these next. Some good suggestions.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.

Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydian. I'm kicking myself I only found them now, with DC2.

*Prydain

We were talking about books earlier and remembered The Midnight Zoo by Sonia Hartnett which DD enjoyed reading about a year ago.

It is set in WW2, is grim in parts and doesn't have a happy ending as such, but it's beautifully and sensitively written so as not to actually by disturbing for a younger reader.

Bertie Twilight - really? I nearly picked up a copy in a charity shop at the weekend as I'm sure DD will get onto them at some point, although they might be a bit too sappy for her - she's ploughing through the Young Sherlock series atm (takes those to school, reads HDM with me at home) and they are really revolting in parts!