Page turner recommendations for a 9y/o girl, please

[earwig1]

DD has great imagination and is very good at writing, but I'd like to improve her reading comprehension over the summer.She loves Roald Dahl and has read all his books, also Famous Five, Mr Gumm, Clarice Bean... We have been reading Five Children and It together, she loves it but finds it a bit frustrating on her own, as there is a lot of old fashioned terms and she needs to ask what they mean...

Lionboy trilogy by Zizou Corder
Charlie Bone series
Molly Moon series
How to Train your Dragon

My nine-year-old was obsessed by Mr Gum for ages. She has since moved on to:
How to train your dragon - Cressida Cowel
A series of unfortunate events - Lemony Snicket
The Demon Headmaster - Gillian Cross
Roman Mysteries - Caroline Lawrence
Awful End series - Philip Ardagh
Frozen in Time - Ali Sparkes.
All good series and if you try Book People or Red House you should be able to pick some up at bargain prices.

Just Moody series
Daisy and the trouble with...
Pippi Longstocking
Gwyneth Rees- Cosmo series
David Walliams

Harry Potter series surely - if she hasn't read them yet. She should be able to manage them if she's a good reader.

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - 13 books there to keep her going!

Any Enid Blyton stuff. My girls loved the Mallory Towers books, even though they're a bit old fashioned.

The Silver Sword by Ian Serallier

Anne of Green Gables

Black Beauty

I could go on and on, but some great suggestions above too.

I've just been reading the first 3 Laura Ingalls Wilder books to my dd (7), she loves them, and could have managed them herself I think. And I'll second Pippi Longstocking, and Harry Potter (which my dd has just started reading to herself, after me reading the first 2 too her last year).

The Gates by John Connolly.

I think I read The Dark is Rising when I was nine, scared me for years although it is brilliant!
my 9 yo boy loves Rick Riordan - the Heroes of Olympus and Kane Chronicles series have good female characters if Percy Jackson seems to much for boys (though I never had a problem with a boy hero as a girl bookworm)
also can't say enough good about Joan Aiken, Wolves of Willoughby Chase series - he is on the 4th now and there are loads to go, but very well written.

My dd (nearly 9) has enjoyed:

Malory Towers
St Clares
The Sea of Adventure series
Infact pretty well any Enid Blyton goes down well!

Heidi
Pippi Longstocking
The Secret Garden
Mrs Pepperpot
The Moomins
Charlottes Web

My dd loved the Lady Grace mysteries. There's a whole series of them.

Hi earwig1:

My DD1 (Y4 age 9) has been in an accelerated reading programme this year to improve reading and comprehension skills. The real successes were these:

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell [there are more in series]
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Caesar's Goat by Dick King-Smith
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Spiderwick Chronicles series by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

These may be slightly harder reading level but:

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C O'Brien
Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis (DD1 wild about movies)
& we're also hoping to start the Harry Potter series as well but may save it for start of next school year.

HTH

At this age, dsd enjoyed Noel Streatfeild : Ballet Shoes, Ballet Shoes for Anna, Tennis Shoes, Theatre Shoes...

The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown.

Harry Potter series.

Anne of Green Gables.

Clarice Bean books.

Carrie's War by Nina Bawden.

Thanks so much, everyone! I forgot about some of these that she has read, eg The Moomins and Pippi Longstockings. I have just ordered Molly Moon, thanks Takver, and How to Train your Dragon, but will get others from your lists,

My dd is working her way through some books by Rumer Godden. They are mine that I read when I was a little younger than she is now but she is loving them and not finding them old fashioned or not complaining if she does.She's really enjoyed The Diddakoi (remember Kizzy on TV when you were small?) and the Story of Holly and Ivy.

Rumer Godden looks good too! Thanks to all for those. I have looked through reading lists on other threads, and I'm sometimes left feeling that other children the same age are way, way beyond my DD, reading very sophisticated books. Sometimes I'd like to know if they can really read and understand an unabridged "Treasure Island" on their own, or is my child behind?

I'd second Noel Streatfeild, DD loves them. A lot are out of print but I have now got them all through Amazon.

She liked Jaqueline Wilson from that age, but I can't say I liked her reading them and I was careful which ones she read.

Judy Moody series - she liked these at that age and I think a film is out this summer.

DS1 started reading the Alex Rider books about that age too.

I've just ordered Elizabeth Enright's "The Saturdays" (there are four books in the series) for 9yo DD after seeing them recommended in the children's books section here.

is she too young, emotionally, for 'between shades of gray' (sorry is a bit unfortunate title at moment)? it's wonderful but heartbreaking stuff

you might want to read it yourself first to see what you think

extracts here

sorry about the evangelical zeal but love this author and hope any subsequent books will be even half as good - here she is, explaining how the book came into being

It is a great book Alameda but I wouldn't give it to a nine year old. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie this year, and the 13-15 year olds at school who read it thought it was excellent, but nine is too young to fully understand it.

it is too young isn't it? just saw 'page turner' and thought of it

earwig, I think the thing with the children's book section is that you tend to pick up the extremes, as people post there if they have children who aren't average, IYSWIM, and therefore what they're finding in the school & library at first look isn't suiting their child.

Primary education is similar - if you went by that board you'd assume that primary schools were full of 50% children who are exceptionally bright and bored with the current work, and 50% children who can't read or write at all in year 6!

(I'm guilty of both having a 10 y/o who can read pretty much anything but up to last year couldn't write at all . . .)