So, my niece is 8 years old, soon to be 9 and she has taken after me, being a huge nerd and bookworm. But so far all her books have been in the "diary of wimpy kid" style. Illustrated, stylized and '"easy"(i love the series btw). Now she wants to graduate to "big girl books". Her parents are readers but much prefer non fiction and asked me for help getting her books.
She is quite smart for her age. She liked the harry potter movies and wants to read the series. I read them when I was 10 and i could grasp everything quite well. I think she can handle them, and she wants to try, so that's one.
However, i'm completely lost on what else to recommend. I never really read children's and tween's books when i was younger, i totally skipped to teen/adult books as early as 11 (and probably read a lot of things I shouldn't have so I'm not about to recommend those and have her parents mad at me lol). My mom trusted me and left me quite free to pick what I wanted, but my brother (probably because he knows the amount of shit I have read) wants to vet the books before he buys them.
So please, give me your best recommendations of children's books(that do not treat children like they are dumb) for a quite smart almost-nine year old.
For more info: she loves dinosaurs and all sorts magical stuff. She is also in a magical girl phase.
by Mountain-Today1698
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i like you didn’t really have rules when it came to my reading material lol…i have a great YA series in mind, but would your brother be mad abt implied sex? i don’t know if that’s too much for a 9 year old
bridge to terabithia, the giver are books i remember liking at that age but cover more complex themes. the sky is falling (book about children in Britain in WW2) is another one.
What an adventure! My favorite classics: Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, Penrod and Sam, The Wind in the Willows, The Black Beauty, The Secret Garden