please recomend some books for my daughter?

Question

my daughter loves to read and was totally into me reading harry potter to her every night. she loves animals and wizards. i want to buy her some books for christmas but need some help picking some out. btw- she's nine years old.

Answer 1

I used to have a really good book that I absolutley loved and read over and over again as a little girl.. must of been good for me to still remember it now... and it had the most lovely illustrations in it too.. I found it on Amazon and have added the link for you.. Its called catwitch and about a Cat that belongs to a witch and his adventures...

http://www.amazon.com/Catwitch-Lisa-Tuttle/dp/0385188870/sr=11-1/qid=1163052417/ref=sr_11_1/103-0466779-6712643

Answer 2

Here are a some must-haves:

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper: A series of five books that she will love. These books have won many awards and I think at least two have won the Newbury Medal.

The books are about the efforts of three regular kids, a boy who is the last of the "old ones" and others who fight to keep the Dark (evil) from rising one final time and taking over the earth. Set in Great Britain.
The titles are:
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree

Another series of interest is the "So You Want to be a Wizard?" books by Diane Duane. The most recent titles start to explore dating and such so you might want to start with the earlier books.

The series focuses on two kids who become friends and wizards after each finds a book entitled "So You Want to Be a Wizard?"
The books can only be seen by special people who can become wizards. The kids become friends and save the world from being blotted out by the forces of darkness after an epic battle.

The first three books are
So You Want to Be a Wizard
High Wizardry
Deep Wizardry.

Next up is the Wrinkle in Time books by Madeleine L'Engle. Although not wizard books, they are magical in every way. This is another series that has won many awards including the Newbury.
Noteable titles include:
A Wrinkle in Time where Meg, brother Charles and friend Calvin travel with three magical beings to a planet where Meg and Charles's father is being held captive.This is the book that starts the series.
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

Your library should have copies of all of these books, so you can peek at them and see if they look like they would suit her and her reading level.

I don't want to take up the whole question page :) so I will stop with these. If you want ideas for single titles, add a note at the bottom of your question. As you can tell from my screen name, I'm pretty passionate about books.

OOPs--almost forgot some animal books:
Horse books:
My Friend Flicka (please get the original and not the new one which changes the story around.)
King of the Wind
Misty of Chincoteague
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
The Black Stallion series

Answer 3

A Series of Unfortunate events series - Lemony Snicket (There are several books in the series)
American Girl books
Boxcar Mysteries
Several of the Judy Blume books
Little House on the Prairie Books
The Narnia series
Nancy Drew
Protector of the Small series
Time Warp Trio

Answer 4

My daughter and her friends are totally into the Erin Hunter Warrior Cat Series. Currently there are two series the first has 6 books the second 5 with the 6th coming out next month. Also, Erin Hunter is coming out with a bunch of new books early next year. Here is a site to check out about the series:http://www.warriorcats.com/content.html

Answer 5

The Magic Tree House series
The Secrets of Droon series
The Chronicles of Narnia series
The Spiderwick Chroicles series
Bunnicula & other books in that series
A to Z Mysteries series
Choose Your Own Adventure series

Answer 6

I am 12 and i also love to read. How about the book "Lily's Crossing" It's a good book and the character Lily is about your daughter's age. But there aren't any dragons in the book just a cat.

Answer 7

All Enid Blyton books are great! I read them when I was 9 or 10 and I really enjoyed them and collected them all. Also some funny books are from Andy Griffiths and Paul Jennings who are great writers so check them out too!

Answer 8

Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew
Etc

Answer 9

Hahahahha
Awesome.
Ummmm.
The Abarat Series BY Clive Barker[my fav]
AND
Inkheart & Inkspell both BY Cornelia Funke
AND
Earogon[something like that, its coming out soon in the movies]
And the eldest......
THOSE are some of my favorite younger books.
I hope your daughter enjoys.
:)

Answer 10

The Narnia books by CS Lewis if she hasn`t already read them. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein