Last year we made summer reading lists of some of the girls’ favorite books, and this year we have some new lists. Next up is Eloise’s list. Eloise is finishing up 3rd grade and is a voracious reader. There is no way I can keep up with her. She tends to enjoy more fiction than anything and mostly will chose different books from her sister. Most often if I suggest something she isn’t that interested and many of the things she loves aren’t my cup of tea. But I mostly let her pick what she wants to read. Here is her list from last year if you are looking for some other books in the 8-9 year old range.
1. Series of Unfortunate Events – Greta started this series but didn’t stick with it because it got too scary, but Eloise has loved it. She is on book 11 of 13. Matt describes it as being pretty dark at times. Three orphans are trying to figure out how their parents died, but they often run into bad luck.
2. Cupcake Club – In the first book a Cupcake Club is created at school and each subsequent book focuses on one club member and some problem they are dealing with. I think there are 11 books in this series.
3. Land of Stories – Greta has this on her list as well. I will say that I bought the first book in the series years ago for Greta and she wasn’t interested in it. Then I suggested it to Eloise this year and she loved it (she tends to love fairy tale type stories), so then Greta had to try it.
4. Whatever After – Siblings have a magic mirror that transports them into fairy tale lands, but they accidentally mess up the story. There are 13 books in this series so far.
5. Who Was – These are biographies that are very popular with younger grades. I love that they are making biographies to accessible and enjoyable for kids.
6. Thea & Geronimo Stilton – This was on her list last year as well and she still loves them and continues to read any new ones our library gets in (there are tons of books in this series). We will also be visiting other libraries in our county system this year and I’m sure she will grab more.
7. Weird but True – These are books by National Geographic that contain tons of pictures and facts. Both the older two love these books and spouting off endless random facts to us.
8. The Critter Club – A couple of girls who love animals and save animals and help them get back to health.
9. Big Nate – A hilarious series about a middle school kid who gets lots of detentions.
10. Because of Winn Dixie – Everything changes for 10 year old Opal when she meets Winn Dixie (a dog). Eloise recently joined a book club and this was the first book she read. It had been sitting on our shelves for years and she never picked it up, so I’m glad that she was encouraged to read it.
Do you have other books to recommend for 9 year olds?
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