# Help find a great book series for an 8 year old girl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026 "2010-09-08T05:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/41 "2010-09-09T12:39:34Z")
Yes, Joan Aiken! What about the series that starts with _The Wolves of Willoughby Chase_? I can’t remember what the series itself is called, if it has a name, but it’s absolutely great. And another vote for Narnia here. Damn, I can’t wait for my daughter to be this age… ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/42 "2010-09-09T12:50:50Z")
Ooh, I know another one… how about Pippi Longstocking? Not exactly a series, but there are a few of them. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/43 "2010-09-09T13:09:43Z")
My 12 yo is gonzo for graphic novels, thanks for posting the suggestions Anduinel. She also likes Nightschool the Weirn books ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/44 "2010-09-09T13:16:07Z")
> [@chela](#): > > My 12 yo is gonzo for graphic novels, thanks for posting the suggestions Anduinel. > > She also likes Nightschool the Weirn books My daughter loves Bone and also Beanworld. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/45 "2010-09-09T13:32:17Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > I also remember a spooky series-- no idea of author but “The House with a Clock in its Walls” was one of them. John Bellairs. I adore his Lewis Barnavelt books (and the others are okay, too), but I thought they might be a little too scary for the OP’s girl. They sure scared _me_… ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/46 "2010-09-09T13:47:03Z")
I loved [Edward Eager’s stories](http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/edward-eager/)of children encountering magic. Still do, in fact. Start with _Half Magic_. He loved [E Nesbit’s work](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nesbit), which I missed as a child. Well, it’s not too late & her works are[available online](http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/n#a407). And Eager also loved Frank Baum’s Oz books. I missed them, as well, as a child; a friend still treasures her illustrated editions. Look, somebody scanned them [onto the internet](http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=-collection:%22gutenberg%22%20AND%20(oz%20baum)%20AND%20mediatype:texts)! When we were very young, Mom bought a cheap set of children’s classics. _Pinocchio_, _Little Women_,\* Little Men\*, etc. Some were too old for us, but we “grew into” them. If you can afford it, buy copies of interesting books & let her get into them at her own speed. (In the old days, there were very few paperbacks for kids; that has changed.) (I hope the kid finds some good stuff here; _my_ reading list has definitely expanded!) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/47 "2010-09-10T00:05:17Z")
If Tamora Pierce hasn’t been brought up yet, her Lioness quartet (_Alanna: The First Adventure_, _In The Hand Of The Goddess_, _The Woman Who Rides Like A Man_, and _Lioness Rampant_) and her Immortals quartet (_Wild Magic_, _Wolf Speaker_, _Emperor Mage_, and _The Realms Of The Gods_) are both really good. There’s a tiny, tiny bit of stuff about sex and menustration, but nothing too explicit. ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/48 "2010-09-11T03:42:14Z")
> [@chela](#): > > My 12 yo is gonzo for graphic novels, thanks for posting the suggestions Anduinel. > > She also likes Nightschool the Weirn books My pleasure. I always appreciate the chance to give good books some exposure. ---
**Author:** ![Lily\_Milliner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8edcca/32.png) [@Lily\_Milliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lily_Milliner)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026/49 "2010-09-12T01:35:46Z")
I wanted to second **Dangerosa’s** suggestion of Erin Hunter’s Warriors series, about clans of cats living in the wild that form alliances, fight one another, fight off other enemies, etc. My 8yo is devouring these eagerly, as her sister did before her, and I know several of their classmates love them too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-find-a-great-book-series-for-an-8-year-old-girl/553026.md?page=2)