Love these! Do you have any recommendations for my 9yo daughter, who is getting a bit fussy about books?
We've recently done the first three Harry Potters as a whole family read aloud, and she loved those, they really captured her imagination!
She loves Tom Gates books and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I'd like to stretch her a bit and get her out of reading the same kind of book all the time. She didn't like Dork Diaries or Tracey Beaker at all. She loves Peanut Jones!
She enjoyed the content of the first two Little House on the Prairie books, but found them a bit hard to get through.
The first book that comes to mind is Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers by Anna James - this series has a fantasy element similar to Harry Potter and Anna lives in the UK (not that your daughter can only read books set in the UK!)
A couple of other books that I thought of...
- The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos
- A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus (I love this book, but I have heard from a couple of UK readers that there are couple of things where what they are called in the book does not match what they would be called in the UK)
- The Girl Who Stole the Elephant by Nizrana Farook
As an aside, I think there are differences between British humor and US humor so it's actually something I keep track of in my book database!
Love these! Do you have any recommendations for my 9yo daughter, who is getting a bit fussy about books?
We've recently done the first three Harry Potters as a whole family read aloud, and she loved those, they really captured her imagination!
She loves Tom Gates books and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I'd like to stretch her a bit and get her out of reading the same kind of book all the time. She didn't like Dork Diaries or Tracey Beaker at all. She loves Peanut Jones!
She enjoyed the content of the first two Little House on the Prairie books, but found them a bit hard to get through.
We're in the UK, if that makes a difference!
The first book that comes to mind is Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers by Anna James - this series has a fantasy element similar to Harry Potter and Anna lives in the UK (not that your daughter can only read books set in the UK!)
A couple of other books that I thought of...
- The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos
- A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus (I love this book, but I have heard from a couple of UK readers that there are couple of things where what they are called in the book does not match what they would be called in the UK)
- The Girl Who Stole the Elephant by Nizrana Farook
As an aside, I think there are differences between British humor and US humor so it's actually something I keep track of in my book database!
I read Tilly and the Book Wanderers this year and loved it!! But my daughter wouldn't read it! I know she would love it though!
I've not heard of the other ones, so I'll look them up at our library. Thanks so much!
Hopefully she’s interested in reading one of them!