Good books for 9 yo girl?

[BaconAndAvocado]

Posting this for a friend!

All,ideas gratefully received!

Tia

[emmaMBC]

My daughter is currently devouring The Tiffin

She also loves,
Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy

Waffle Hearts - is absolutely gorgeous

Anything by David Wallaims

and David Almond's The Boy Who Swam With Pirnahas

[Pollaidh]

I don't have a 9 yr old but am thinking back to what I read at that age (an avid reader).

Eva Ibbotson's books - she did some younger ones and a young teen type which have more romance in but are very funny and well written. Something like A Countess Below Stairs.

Michelle Magorian - she of Goodnight Mr Tom fame did some great books including A Little Love Song (addresses teen pregnancy/sex in a non-graphic and sensible way).

If she likes Famous Five then Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series is sure to go down well (and the books are better written than EB's).

Action Adventures such as John Buchan's 39 Steps.

School stories - Chalet School series, Dimsie series, Trebizon series and Elsie Oxenham's books about The Abbey. Some of these are quite hard to obtain but some paperbacks can still be bought on-line and found in second hand shops.

Classics such as: Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy; LM Montgomery's Emily of New Moon and Anne of Green Gable books; LM Alcott's Little Women series plus Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom.

I was reading some Austen at this point too, also Bronte sister but was too immature to understand and appreciate the latter.

If you want vampires etc then I haven't got a clue, sorry.

[BaconAndAvocado]

Wow! Jane Austen at age 9, that's very impressive poll !

Thanks for all the great suggestions, will pass them on.

[TheBogQueen]

These are grey suggestions - am bookmarking this thread.

Dd1 enjoying Northern Lights at the moment. Also Cordelia funke - book about dragons? Unicorns? Something like that...

Micheal morpurgo

Yy to Eva Ibbotson particularly Journey to the River sea

She slso really likes Greek myths and German fairytales, loves those books full of different stories.

[KoalaFace]

Cordelia Funke wrote Inkheart I think TheBogQueen.

I loved series where I could really get to know the characters like Babysitter's Club.

Judy Bloom and Lois Lowry were also favourites.

My younger sister liked the Angels Unlimited series.

[BehindTheScenesAtTheMumseum]

My DD (nearly 9) has recently loved:
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen Peters
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
The Silver Sword - Ian Serralier

So many wonderful books, both classic and recent, for this age.

[solosolong]

The Roman Mysteries series - my DD loved them.

[nonicknameseemsavailable]

Charlotte Sometimes, Moondial (if you can get a copy second hand as it is out of print but I loved it), A Traveler in Time by Alison Uttley, Noel Streatfield, Charlotte's Web, any Dick King Smith, Holly Webb stuff, the Ottoline books probably (not seen them but people have recommended them on here before)

[LadyEnglefield]

Thanks for these suggestions.

I have nearly 9 yr old twin DDs, both avid readers & sometimes find it hard to to come up with good books for them.

I tend to make suggestions based on recommendations by Mnetters or the Sunday Times. We then read the reviews on Amazon & if the books appeal to them I'll order them.

DTD2 is working her way through the Narnia Chronicles while DTD1 has just finished Flora & Ulysses and is now reading The Rooftoppers (which she said she accidentally downloaded to my kindle)

Can I suggest The Glass Bird Girl and The Snow Merchant which we've bought to read later.

[Cereal0ffender]

lari don first aid for fairies books are great.

[ShanghaiDiva]

Ruby redfort by Lauren child
Molly moon by Georgia byng
Ottoline - chis riddell

[LadyEnglefield]

Ottoline books are great fun as us Goth Girl & the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell too.

[greedygoose]

My dd has just finished the Percy Jackson series which was a big hit. She has also just read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, recommended on here, really different.

[BlueChampagne]

Second Joan Aiken and Goth Girl!

Green Knowe series by Lucy M Boston
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce

[spinnergeologist]

Tamora Peirce (amazon as her uk publisher expired recently) very good strong female characters. Terry Pratchett's Tiffany (Wee Free Men) series. Dianna Whynn Jones particularly howls moving castle. Beyond the Deepwoods by Chris Riddle and Paul Stewart (this has some pictures every 20 pages or so). Artimis Fowl by Eion Coulfer.

[BaconAndAvocado]

Some of these marvellous books are taking me back to my own childhood.

Thanks all

Will pass them on to my friend, and bear them in mind for my own DD, currently 5!