Beginner Chapter Books with Plot/Setting/Characters like “The Owl House?”

Hi folks!

We've got a teacher strike in Alberta, Canada, and I'm trying to support a friend's 10-year-old through strike time. I'm a professor of Creative Writing, but my focus is on adult literature (specifically queer literature), and not on kids' lit at all. In this case, queer is great (this kid is queer, this family is queer), but otherwise I'm not sure what to be recommending. Here's all the context needed to recommend me some books:

+ I introduced her to the show "The Owl House," and it's my own damn fault that we can't get any schoolwork done, because she's binged it instead of doing anything I ask (lmao!!). It's great if you haven't seen it—it's on Disney Plus, it's hella queer, complex characters, the setting and animation is kinda gross, the plot is causal and clear enough for kids but complex enough to satisfy adults, and it doesn't pull punches even though it's made for kids (there's complicated moral arguments and a main character death).

+ While this kid is 10, she's a reluctant reader and currently reading under grade level (multiple learning disabilities, different priorities at home (family of athletes), covid during kindergarten). But her teachers have been giving her reading material that she thinks is "for babies," and she's frustrated by it. I've tried with graphic novels (specifically Hilda and The Troll and the rest of the Luke Pearson books because of similarities to The Owl House), but it's striking a nerve as still in the for babies category (no matter how much I tell her they're not!). She has asked for CHAPTER books specifically like The Owl House, but I need them to be developmentally appropriate for a ten-year-old while at a reading level that is closer to eight.

Okay, Reddit! Lay it on me!