Book Suggestions for 8 year old girl

[ekmom]

One of my daughter's favorite books at that age was Half Magic by Edward Eager. She also loved the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary and Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren. All of these are older books and have no overly mature content.

 

[AwaitingMagic]

I concur on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Harry Potter series. My daughter liked the Narnia books and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books as well.

 

[CrAzY4DL]

My DD9 has been reading 2 levels above her grade since she was in kindergarten so when her class did book orders, I had to go to the teachers of higher grades to get books for her. What we LOVE:
1. The Harry Potter series. She started these in 2nd grade and finished in 3rd grade last year.
2. Both of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
3. Nancy Drew
4. Tale of Desperaux
5. Trixie Belden books ( i looooove these too!!! LOL)
6. For Christmas I got her Sweet Valley Twins books #1-38 and she hasn't put those down yet.
7. LOOOOOVES Roald Dahl which is awesome!! I bought like, 6 of his books when I got pregnant with her and have been waiting for her to be ready for them!!! She went on a Roald Dahl reading spree this summer, read everything I have then on to the library for the rest!

What she DIDN'T love:
1. Narnia Chronicles. I bought her the complete boxed set last Christmas, I read them and she has not been interested. Read about half of the first one and then said, blah! LOL
2. Where the Red Fern Grows. This is one of my absolute favorite books and I know she is ready for it but we started reading it last year and she couldn't even finish the first chapter without crying. Goes on and on about the love of a good dog and how this guy was helping this beat up stray dog and how he just KNEW the dog was getting back to his owner (and then the rest of the book is about his amazing bond with these 2 AMAZING dogs he had when he was a kid). She just cried forever about the first 3 or 4 pages. Might try our hand at it again when she is done with the Twins.

Hope that helps!

 

[mandynee22]

She sounds just like my DD. Mine's in thrid grade and 9, but was reading way ahead (and still is). She still likes Junie B because of the story- I think because Junie has an annoying little brother too LOL
On her nightstand she has Stuart Little, so that must be what she's reading before bed now. I know she has two or three books in her backback she's doing, too.
Have you checked out Usbourne? They have some really good ones.
How 'bout Little House books?

 

[Stephres]

What she DIDN'T love:
1. Narnia Chronicles. I bought her the complete boxed set last Christmas, I read them and she has not been interested. Read about half of the first one and then said, blah! LOL
2. Where the Red Fern Grows. This is one of my absolute favorite books and I know she is ready for it but we started reading it last year and she couldn't even finish the first chapter without crying. Goes on and on about the love of a good dog and how this guy was helping this beat up stray dog and how he just KNEW the dog was getting back to his owner (and then the rest of the book is about his amazing bond with these 2 AMAZING dogs he had when he was a kid). She just cried forever about the first 3 or 4 pages. Might try our hand at it again when she is done with the Twins.

Hope that helps!

Are our nine year olds related? Mine told me he refuses to read any book with a picture of a dog on the cover because something horrible happens to the dog every time!

He doesn't like the fantasy books much but likes Ronald Dahl and the Judy Moody ones too.

 

[clutter]

Are our nine year olds related? Mine told me he refuses to read any book with a picture of a dog on the cover because something horrible happens to the dog every time!

There is a book out called "No Dead Dogs". It's the anti-book to all the dog books where the dog dies. OTOH, the junior version of Marley & Me is really good.

 

[Harlie]

My DD9 is in gr 4 and loves the English Roses series by Madonna. The last few were a bit to difficult for her reading level last year but she should be ready for them now. Books 1-3 were great when she was in grade 3. She is also loving the Rainbow Fairies Series as well as the new Tinkerbell series. Her all time Fave book this year has been Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. I have been thinking of finding her some other great Judy Blume Classics.

 

[Haileys_mom]

My DD will be 9 at the end of the month but she is into the following:

Rainbow Fairies series
Diary of a wimpy kid
Geronimo Stilton -I didn't see this series mentioned so maybe it's just a Canadian thing...not sure
Judy Moody
The babysitters club books are good, but they do refer to boyfriends so if you want to avoid that you should wait on them a bit.
My Mom bought DD the Anne of Green Gables series for Christmas along with a ticket to see the play. She hasn't started them yet so I don't know if she likes them but I seem to remember that they were good.

 

[kristinw3girls]

Try the american Girl series. I also have a 4th grade redaing 8yo, and she is reading them just fine.

 

[clori]

I also have a 8 year old 3rd grader who reads above grade level but still likes grade appropriate stories. She likes several of the books mentioned.

One series I haven't seen mentioned are books by Carolyn Haywood such as B is for Betsy.

Another series of books she likes are books by Carole Marsh. These are usually mysteries about real places that involve young children such as Mystery at Walt Disney World

Some Judy Blume books may be okay but some you probably don't want her reading quite yet even if she can read the content.

 

[GothTink]

My DD8 adores the Dear Dumb Diary books...

 

[Harlie]

My DD will be 9 at the end of the month but she is into the following:


Geronimo Stilton -I didn't see this series mentioned so maybe it's just a Canadian thing...not sure

Maybe....My DS8 Loves that series...my DD9 just can't get into them. She tried though, she just couldn't follow it with interest.

 

[madmom1030]

My dd8 likes The Baby-Sitter club and The Doll People by Ann Martin. She is one of her favorite authors. She also likes the Mallory books by Laurie Friedman, Ivy and Bean books by Annie Barrows and The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull. My dd reads at 5th grade level and I have been able to get help from her teacher, if they can't help talk to the school librarian.

 

[mumto3girls]

Thanks for this thread. I also have a DD8 who loves to read. She just finished the American Girl doll series--except the books about Addy who was a slave girl--my girlfriend warned me that they were extremely emotional and she recommended waiting a few years. Otherwise, I highly recommend those books. Now I am trying to figure out what to suggest to her next. She has finished all the Junie B. books that her school library and our public library have and seems to be moving on to the Judy Moody books--that's what she has been checking out of the school library anyway. My sister suggested the Little House books and I am considering those. We also have some Beverly Cleary books that she got for Christmas. I read to her a few chapters out of a book each night and she also reads other books on her own. I read the American Girl books to her, but she may have been able to read them on her own. They were great stories--sometimes I read ahead.

My mom has bought her some Nancy Drew books, but I think she put them away and hasn't given them to her yet so maybe I will suggest those for her next birthday. I loved those and the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and the Trixie Belden books so those are all great suggestions. I have a hard time remembering at what age I read what. I think she is a bit above her grade level but maybe not as much as some of the other posters. Its so exciting watching them start to love to read.

 

[McKelly]

Ann Martin also writes a Main Street series which my daughter has read. She also like the Penderwycks (sp?).

 

[irene_dsc]

I'm not quite there yet with my kids, but I am thinking back to what I liked when I was that age and reading above my grade level. Tho, I will say I just got some Amber Brown books for one of my nieces, on her request - they are written by Paula Danziger, and I remember loving her books when I was younger.

I read a lot of fantasy and sf - I remember reading The Black Cauldron series at about that age. I also read the entire Wizard of Oz series (thanks to inter-library loan, as I recall!). Also, The Black Stallion and Black Beauty, iirc - both horse novels. I also loved the Little House books. I forget when I first read Little Women - maybe around 9 or 10? That one does have relationships in it, if not exactly contemporary dating type stuff, iykwim.

 

[FatElvis]

There have been some great suggestions - I just have 2 to add, both older ones that I loved as a kid. My 7yr old is getting close to being able to read these easily - Baby Island and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler.

 

[Shelley Chiarats]

Another series that I haven't seen mentioned that I thought was good when I was a kid was the The Boxcar Children be Warner.

 

[JVL1018]

My DD will be 9 at the end of the month but she is into the following:

Rainbow Fairies series
Diary of a wimpy kid
Geronimo Stilton -I didn't see this series mentioned so maybe it's just a Canadian thing...not sure
Judy Moody
The babysitters club books are good, but they do refer to boyfriends so if you want to avoid that you should wait on them a bit.
My Mom bought DD the Anne of Green Gables series for Christmas along with a ticket to see the play. She hasn't started them yet so I don't know if she likes them but I seem to remember that they were good.

I was just about to mention Geronimo Stilton-my 9 year old daughter found them about a year and a half ago-they are in the Scholastic Book Orders.
She loves them.
Right now she is sitting next to me reading Harry Potter.
She is another one who love Wimpy Kid and Judy Moody
Also the Anastasia books by Lois Lowry.

 

[maciec]

thank you all so much for all of the suggestions! We love the Diary of the Wimpy kid books and can't wait until the new one comes out tomorrow. I am going to pick it up for her this week.

When I was a kid I loved and read all of the Judy Blume books. I would love to let her read them except that Superfudge spills the beans about Santa and we aren't ready for that.

She loves Stink and Judy. She really likes funny books a lot although she really liked the Magic Tree House books which aren't.

She's actually pretty picky about which books she reads. She's has been reading books by Andy Griffiths right now and loves them.

I hope that this thread has helped other parents as well