Hi guys, thanks in advance for reading this. I was thrilled to find this site and the fact that so many book worms are here! My daughter is nine, she reads on a fourteen year old's level, and is receiving a kindle for Christmas. Currently she reads two to three books a week. Right now I'm looking for some suggestions for books, books series for her. She is really interested in mystery series. I have already grabbed the Babysitters Club series (thank you!) and the two Monster High books out as well as Camp Confidential and Goosebumps. I know she's interested in Dear Dumb Diary and Dork Diary type books. (I even thought perhaps Little House on the Prairie if I could find it)

So any suggestions your nine year old to thirteen year old reads would be really helpful. I'm wanting to have her kindle stuffed full of books for Christmas, as that would be better than a Corvette in her opinion. Thanks again!

Sari

[Bohica60]

Well, there is the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, if you can find them. (I'm just guessing here! )

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My kids have all enjoyed Leminy Snicketts, Harry Potter and Phillip Pullman, I might have some Little House on the Prairie, I'll check (not sure of quality), I'll go check the book cases for ideas!

[hmorphone]

Following up the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew suggestion, Encyclopedia Brown and The Three Investigators are two more mystery type series from years ago that might fit.

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Here's What I've got in my 'kid' library, not sure about age range on some of them tho', they're in mainly pdf & html: i
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes - Kiesha’ra 1-5
1. Hawksong
2. snake charm
3. Falcondance
4. Wolfcry
5. Wyvernhail

Becca Fitzpatrick - Hush Hush
1. Hush Hush
2. Crescendo

Cassandra Claire - Draco Trilogy
1. Draco Dormiens
2. Draco Sinister
3. Draco Veritas

Cinda Williams Chima - Heir
1. The Warrior Heir
2. The Wizard Heir
3. The Dragon Heir

Cyrese Covelli - Witchblock
1. Witchfire
2. Shadowshifter
3. Wolfsmage
4. Bloodcharm

Darren Shan - cirque Du Freak
1. A Living Nightmare
2. The Vampire’s Assistant
3. Tunnels of Blood
4. Vampire Mountain
5. Trials of Death
6. Vampire Prince
7. Hunters of the Dusk
8. Allies of the Night
9. Killers of the Dawn
10. The Lake of Souls
11. Lord of the Shadows
12. Sons of Destiny

Demonata
1. Lord Loss
2. Demon Thief
3. Slawter
4. Bec
5. Blood beast
6. Demon apocalypse
7. Death’s Shadow
8. Wolf Island
9. Dark Calling
10. Hells Heroes

?? Older teen??
1. Birth of a Killer
2. Procession of the dead
3. Hell’s Horizon
4. Ocean of Blood

?. The Thin Executioner

Elizabeth Chandler - Dark Secrets ?
1. Legacy of Lies
2. Don’t Tell
3. No Time to die
4. Deep end of Fear
5. The Back Door of Midnight

Erin Lynn - Demon ?
1. Demon Envy
2. Speen Demon

Holly Black - ?
Ironside
Tithe
Valiant

James Patterson - Maximum Ride !!
1. The Angel Experiment
2. Schools Out
3. Saving the World
4. The Final Warning
5. Max
6. Fang
7. Angel

Jenna Black - Faerie Walker
1. Glimmerglass
2. Shadowspell

Jim Butcher - Dresden Files ?
Kailing Gerown - Bitter Frost
1. Bitter Frost
2. Forever Frost
3. Silver Frost

Wicked woods
1. The Wicked Woods
2. Shimmer

Laura Ingalls Wilder -
1. Little House in the Big Woods
2. Little House on the Prairie

4. By the Shores of Silver Lake
5. On the Banks of Plum Creek
6. The Long Winter
7. Little Town on the Prairie
8. These Happy Golden Years
9. The First Four Years

Meg Cabot - 1-800-Where-R-You ?
1. When Lightning Strikes
2. Code Name Cassandra
3. Safe House
4. Sanctuary
5. Missing you

The Mediator ?
1. shadow Land (aka Love You to Death)
2. Ninth Key ( aka High Stakes)
3. Reunion ( aka Mean Spirits)
4. Darkest Hour ( aka Young Blood)
5. Haunted ( aka Grave Doubts)
6. Twilight ( aka Heaven Sent)

Nancy Holder - wicked ?
1 & 2. Witch & Curse
3 & 4. Legacy & Spellbound
5. Resurrection

Sienna Mercer - My Sister the Vampire ?
1. Switched
2. Fantastic



Tony DiTerlizzie & Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles
1. The Field Guide
2. The Seeing Stone
3. Lucinda’s Secret
4. The Ironwood Tree
5. The Wrath of Mulgarath

Angie sage - araminta Spookie
1. My Haunted Hous
2. The Sword in the Grotto

Annimorph’s
1. The invasion
2. The visitors

C S Lewis - Narnia
7 books combined in PDF

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl
1. Artemis Fowl
2. The Arctic Incident
3. Artemis Fowl & the Eternity Code
4. The Opal Deception
5. Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony
? The supernaturalist



J K Rowling - Harry Potter
1.
2.
3. The Chamber of secrets
4. The Prisoner of Azkiban
5. The Order of the Phoenix
6. The Half Blood Prince
7. Deathly Hallows
Tales of Beadle the Bard

Abra Ebner - Feather
Aimee Friedman - Sea Change
Algebra Success in 20 mins a Day - Learning Express pdf
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Chloe Neill - Firespell
H G Well - The Time Machine
H G Wells - War of the Worlds
Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales
Jane Austen - Emma

Oscare Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey
Richard Burton - Arabian Nights

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
William Makepeasce Thackery - Vanity Fair ??

f you're interested in any I'll post them:

The Laura Ingalls Wilder ones would be absolutely perfect. She is getting a kindle, would those be viewable on there?

[Bohica60]

Any file that ends with .Mobi or .PRC or is a PDF file should work with the Kindle.

Plus there is the option of using a free conversion program like Calibre to convert other file types into Kindle-readable formats.

[Beukies]

Here's What I've got in my 'kid' library, not sure about age range on some of them tho', they're in mainly pdf & html:if you're interested in any I'll post them:

What an incredible list! I wish I was a kid again! It would be like Christmas and Birthday 365 days a year!!

[zackddog]

I'm not sure if Jack London, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Natalie Babbit, and CS Lewis would all be age appropriate, but I remember feeling so much joy and gladness and sadness and excitement reading their books.

And every girl (and boy) should read The Princess Bride (William Goldman) and A Little Princess (Frances H. Burnett) and watch both movies.

Man! Do I love my first books.

P.S. Artemis Fowl is probably the only other character that I would've wanted to be Halloween 1980 if he had been around. Luke who? Han what?

What a lovely lot of responses Definitely got her the babysitters club, all the classics, still searching for the dear dumb diaries and dork diaries to no avail. However, the Laura Ingalls Wilder books would be perfect for my girl, very excited for that.

Thank you for all the ideas, she's 9 so some of them (while easy for her to read) would be harder for her to understand, she's pretty conservative and the like. I'll keep checking back for ideas and keep on googling for the books.

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I've dusted off 'The Little House on the Prairie' I'll get it posted in the morning, but it's a large file 58.4 mb!, that's compressed! (Decided to put individual links for each book as an option)
Just remembered another author, Jacqueline Wilson famous for 'Tracy Beaker', she also states the age range of each book:
9 - 11:
Bad girls
The bed and breakfast star
Best friends
Buried alive
Candyfloss
Clean break
Cliffhanger
I've watched Tracy Beaker with the kids they've all loved it, boys & girls (& parents)!

I've dusted off 'The Little House on the Prairie' I'll get it posted in the morning, but it's a large file 58.4 mb!, that's compressed! (Decided to put individual links for each book as an option)
Just remembered another author, Jacqueline Wilson famous for 'Tracy Beaker', she also states the age range of each book:
9 - 11:
Bad girls
The bed and breakfast star
Best friends
Buried alive
Candyfloss
Clean break
Cliffhanger
I've watched Tracy Beaker with the kids they've all loved it, boys & girls (& parents)!

I am going to search and see if anyone has put up these books as well, thank you!!!!!!

[womble]

I've dusted off 'The Little House on the Prairie' I'll get it posted in the morning, but it's a large file 58.4 mb!, that's compressed! (Decided to put individual links for each book as an option)
Just remembered another author, Jacqueline Wilson famous for 'Tracy Beaker', she also states the age range of each book:
9 - 11:
Bad girls
The bed and breakfast star
Best friends
Buried alive
Candyfloss
Clean break
Cliffhanger
I've watched Tracy Beaker with the kids they've all loved it, boys & girls (& parents)!

I am going to search and see if anyone has put up these books as well, thank you!!!!!!

I've been looking for ANY Jacqueline Wilson, but they're rare!
I found these two authors while checking today:
Darren shan link:
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=23120&hilit=darren+shan
J k rowling:
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=27361&hilit=j+k+rowling
Eoin Colfer is around here somewhere,

Looking for the American Girl books now too. HOW those slipped my mind I have no idea - but they're so wholesome and amazing. Even the AG Mysteries. I posted in the request forum.

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Looking for the American Girl books now too. HOW those slipped my mind I have no idea - but they're so wholesome and amazing. Even the AG Mysteries. I posted in the request forum.

Now you've got me looking for kid books! Did you spot the goosebumps post and curious george posts?
My daughters are interested now - 18 next week anything anime or manga, 14 next week anime or manga, japan related, 10 reluctant reader but interested now just because their e-books!