Linbil5987 Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 This is for my daughter. She just turned 9. She has recently read the Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen mysteries and is reading Magic School Bus series right now. She likes mysteries. She has Nancy Drew PC game but I think the books will be a little to hard for her right now. Anyone have any suggestions?
sullivan07399 Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Check out The Magic Tree House series. My husband reads them to my son so I am not quite sure the reading level. My son loves them and learns a lot too.
amberleigh2 Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 American Girl books are great for girls that age, they have a wide variety of them. You can check them out on heir website americangirl.com
MandaJo111 Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 A Wrinkle in Time is great as well as the babysitters club series.
TerryAnn Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Actually, Nancy Drew may be good for her. I worked in a bookstore for years and there is new Nancy Drew stories which bring her 'up to date' in today's world ... so for a 9yo I would recommend that you get one and let her plod through it. Some children will take a bit longer to read a book ... but happily with a series ... they can get into the character making subsequent books easier and also more interesting to the reader who wishes to know more about their 'friend'. TerryAnn
cari_h Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Judy Moody or Amber Brown series comes to mind.
heatherkw Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 The fudge books,Ramona Quimby and I second the American Girl. DD loves their help books. Lots of good stuff in those!
AndreaInNC Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 My DD loved the Franny K. Stein series by Jim Benton (creator of Happy Bunny). The series is geared for 7-12 year olds. Very cute and funny!
Linbil5987 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Posted January 17, 2007 Wow. Thanks everyone for all of the great suggestions.
bayhaysay Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Check this thread, there were alot of good recommendations in there. http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=58678&highlight=series
sissykus Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 Junie B. Jones series is great, also Magic Tree House series, also From the Black Lagoon series very funny
Stephie25 Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 They are more eerie like stories but my 8 step-son loves the goose-bumps books
sissykus Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 More suggestions for series books are: Nate the Great, Judy Blume books, Captain Underpants, the list could go on and on.
tdanette Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 The Little House On The Prairie series is good too
dtwdmaty Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 Oh, there are so many fun ones for this age! Off the top of my head and not mentioned here yet are: Katie Kazoo, Dear Dumb Diary, Amazing Day of Abby Hayes, Hank Zipzer, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Pippi Longstocking, Artemis Fowl, Molly Moon (we have a lot of books....)
tlock1945 Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 I agree with a previous post...Little House on the Prairie...loved them as a kid and love them as an adult. My son says they are too boring...I think girls would like them better.(he likes Goosebumps...he's 8)
coneeny4 Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 My daughter who is 9 loves the You be the Jury books and the Young America series.
trbarginhunter Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Our daughter enjoyed the American Girl History Mystery series. And I'd try the Nancy Drew..you never know!
Linbil5987 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 Our daughter enjoyed the American Girl History Mystery series. And I'd try the Nancy Drew..you never know!I was looking at these on the American Girl website. Do you think these books would be to difficult for a 3rd grader?She loves everything American Girl but the books say for 10 yo. She just turned 9.
Linbil5987 Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 My daughter who is 9 loves the You be the Jury books and the Young America series.I will look into these. They sound great.
coneeny4 Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Just asked my daughter the series is called Dear America not Young America.
MandaJo111 Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 My daughter who is 9 loves the You be the Jury books and the Young America series. The You Be the Jury ones were always great. Does anyone remember the Choose Your Own Adventure series? They still publish these I believe. They were great! You could read the book 3-4 times and it would be different every time depending on what option you wanted to do.
tlock1945 Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 The You Be the Jury ones were always great. Does anyone remember the Choose Your Own Adventure series? They still publish these I believe. They were great! You could read the book 3-4 times and it would be different every time depending on what option you wanted to do.I was going to mention those! I was looking for some on ebay, but then our library did a book give away and I got a few for my son there. I remember liking those as a child.
MandaJo111 Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 My husband and I were talking about them the other day. We found out we both read them as kids. I think I may get some to read to my son. He is 4, but he loves having choices to make so I think he would enjoy them.
heatherkw Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 After reading and posting in this thread a funny thing happened. DS 9 brouhgt me a book and said hey mom can you fnd me some more of these. I looked and its a Pick A Path to Adventure book:tongue1: . I asked him where he got it and it was in a bag of kids books my mom had gotten at a yard sale last summer and he had just went through a little while ago.So here I go to see if I can find more! Heather
jenilyn Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 THE BOXCAR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gawd those were such good books when I was a kid! My oldest boy read them all too!
Trixie423 Posted February 22, 2007 Posted February 22, 2007 My daughter loved the Junie B Jones series when she was that age. She's 16 now and still tries to get me to buy them for her. :)
bovichtj Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Just asked my daughter the series is called Dear America not Young America. My daughter is 9 and *loves* these Dear America books! They are historical fiction, written as the diaries of a young person (usually a girl) during some point in America's history.... the Gold Rush, American Revolution, Pearl Harbor, etc... She has read so many of them, loved them, and learned so much! Now she has a taste for biography Joanne
wyntyrose Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 Gone Away Lake series is awesome for kids, If she likes things with ghosts then Betty Wrenright(sp) The Dollhouse Murders is a good ghost style story for her age. And I have to second the Boxcar Children, The Narnia series is fantastic
mywarmbluefleece Posted February 24, 2007 Posted February 24, 2007 A book I recommend is Because of Winn Dixie. I can't remember the author. It would be perfect for a 9 year old. We read it in my children's lit class.
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