I just read Neil Patrick Harris's Magical Misfits series, which was fun. Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon is another possibility. And has she tried Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series?
I suggested the NPH series earlier this year and she said she wasn't interested. I might bring it up again. She did all the Series of Unfortunate Events in third grade. We're working on the Netflix series. The Girl Who Drank the Moon seems familiar. I will have to ask her.
The Survival Tails series by Katrina Charman (with animals) & Bicycle Spy by Yona McDonough are both good historical fiction.
Breakout by Kate Messner and 24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling are great (more realistic/adventure) books
Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore, the Found series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke (sci-fi)
The Iron Trial series by Holly Black is amazing (and has a similar feel to Harry Potter down to the magic school and two best friends)
The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer is fabulous
Janitors series and Wishmaker & Wishbreaker by Tyler Whitesides (Janitors is fantastic and they use mops/squeegees/brooms as magical weapons)
If she likes Disney, I loved the Kingdom Keepers series
She's read everything by Kate Messner and the Haddix series. I'm pretty sure she polished off the Haddix series in a day. She speed reads at a rate I've never seen.
She started the Land of Stories series. I'm not sure how far she got with it or why she stopped.
Janitors sounds fantastic. Even if she doesn't want to try it, I might see if the other two want to read it together.
Fantasy Books:
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Alan Garner's books, starting with 'The Owl Service'
Lucy M Boston's 'Greene Know' sequence
The Artemis Fowle books
Historical Fiction:
Rosemary Sutcliffe's historical fiction: ^Warrior Scarlet^, 'Eagle of the Ninth'
WWII Books:
'Carries War' by Nina Bawden
'Blitzcat' by Robert Westall
'Fireweed' by Jill Paton Walsh
Quirky Adventures:
Robin Steven's 'Murder Most Unladylike' series
L.D. Lapinski's 'Strange World's Travel Agency'.
Jennifer Bell's 'Uncommoners' series
-My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara [has 2 sequels, about horses]
-The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa [English translation - might be a bit sad for a child, but it's also a pleasant read]
- anything by Jim C. Hines - Jig the Goblin series is for younger readers, but the Janitors of the Post Apocalypse is also pretty neat. He has written some fairy tale based novels too.
- Alpha Centauri by Robert Siegel [old, you might have problems finding it but try Smashswords]
- They made us read Good Night Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian in primary school. Magorian also has other novels.
- Terry Pratchett has a few novels for younger reader. You can try Maurice and his Educated Rodents or the Tiffany series. There is also The Bromeliad and The Carpet People [not Discworld novels]
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough writes clean, humorous fantasy novels. Song of Sorcery was pretty good.
- Curse of the Witch-Queen by Paula Volsky
- Diane Duane has a whole lot of YA novels - there is a Wizards series which is lovely and also one with talking cats. The Door Into... series is for adults.
- Patricia A McKillip writes delightful books. Try Od Magic, In the Forests of Serre or The Changling Sea. Most of her stuff is standalone.
- Roald Dahl?
- Most things by Diana Wynne Jones
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon - she has other YA books/graphic novels.
- Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold! by Terry Brooks. There is a completed series, but the first novel can stand on its own. Brooks has also written other things which may be too sad/grownup?
-Novels by Catherine Fisher e.g. Darkhenge, The Glass Tower.
-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Whims of Creation by Simon Hawke
- Firebird by Mercedes Lackey
- Firebird by Peter Moorwood [might not be quite right for your child - the dead guy gets put back together again by his brother-in-laws]
- Moonsinger and Moonsinger's Quest by Andre Norton.
- Drowntide by Sydney J. van Scyoc [most original mermaid story ever - good luck finding it!]
- The girl of the Sea of Cortez - Peter Benchley [NOT a horror novel, rather a love letter to the sea]
- Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper [nothing graphic, but has adult themes, but I read this when I was 11]
- James Harriot - variety of vet stories. [animals do sometimes die, but mostly they were amusing stories]
- Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues under the Seas and Journey to the Centre of the Earth [I would go for the Penguin classics or Oxford Worlds Classics translation if you aren't going to read it in French]
- There are Choose Your Own Adventure books [if you can find them] that might be a nice change?
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson [science]
I second a whole bunch of the above recommendations and add:
Pretty much anything by Shannon Hale including Princess Academy and The Books of Bayern
Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series (though I don't know how this one ends, I lost track of it about 5 books in)
Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series (same as Septimus Heap)
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (this one gets a bit dark, but not Harry Potter 7 dark I don't think, but memory is a funny thing, so you may want to screen it first, idk)
Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series
And everything in the Rick Riordan Presents line looks pretty fabulous.
I haven't read any of the Twisted Tales collection or Villains series, sorry. :(
I'm pretty sure she has the Septimus Heap series on her shelf. I think my mom picked them up for her. I can't recall if she has all of them or not. She had mentioned starting them after she finished the Nicholas Flamel series. I'm fairly certain she never finished the Flamel books.
Historical fiction with time travel: Mary Pope Osborne's "Magic Tree House" series.
If she liked Percy Jackson, perhaps also Mary Pope Osborne's "Tales from the Odyssey."
Fantasy:
* Tolkien's "Tales from the Perilous Realm" ("Roverandom" -- inspired by Tolkien's dog --, "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major") -- different in style from LOTR
* Michael Ende, "The Neverending Story"
Adventure / Mystery: Enid Blyton, "The Famous Five" and / or "Secret Seven" series
Perhaps Frances Hodgson Burnett: "The Little Princess".
I have no idea how many "Dear America" books there actually are but I know she's read quite a few of them. The problem with those is that she blitzes through them in about half an hour. It's a bit ridiculous.
We tried Magic Tree House when she was in first grade (anything to get her away from Junie B. Jones). She didn't like them. One of the twins is currently working her way through them.
One other one that you might want to consider is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar. It's a memoir rather than a work of fiction, but it's no less readable for it.
Some of these may already have been mentioned, but back when my daughter was tween/teen, she loved:
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima
The Heir series by Cinda Williams Chima
Immortals by Tamora Pierce (anything by Tamora Pierce is good - this was just her favorite of all of the series)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Princess of the Midnight Ball and other retellings by Jessica Day George
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (this is YA)
She is very much between MG and YA. That's the biggest struggle. Just because she's an amazing reading, doesn't mean she has the mental maturity to understand some of the themes in many of the YA books. She's still just a kid.
Breakout by Kate Messner and 24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling are great (more realistic/adventure) books
Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore, the Found series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke (sci-fi)
The Iron Trial series by Holly Black is amazing (and has a similar feel to Harry Potter down to the magic school and two best friends)
The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer is fabulous
Janitors series and Wishmaker & Wishbreaker by Tyler Whitesides (Janitors is fantastic and they use mops/squeegees/brooms as magical weapons)
If she likes Disney, I loved the Kingdom Keepers series
Hope this helps. I have plenty more if you want.
She started the Land of Stories series. I'm not sure how far she got with it or why she stopped.
Janitors sounds fantastic. Even if she doesn't want to try it, I might see if the other two want to read it together.
Fantasy Books:
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Alan Garner's books, starting with 'The Owl Service'
Lucy M Boston's 'Greene Know' sequence
The Artemis Fowle books
Historical Fiction:
Rosemary Sutcliffe's historical fiction: ^Warrior Scarlet^, 'Eagle of the Ninth'
WWII Books:
'Carries War' by Nina Bawden
'Blitzcat' by Robert Westall
'Fireweed' by Jill Paton Walsh
Quirky Adventures:
Robin Steven's 'Murder Most Unladylike' series
L.D. Lapinski's 'Strange World's Travel Agency'.
Jennifer Bell's 'Uncommoners' series
-The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa [English translation - might be a bit sad for a child, but it's also a pleasant read]
- anything by Jim C. Hines - Jig the Goblin series is for younger readers, but the Janitors of the Post Apocalypse is also pretty neat. He has written some fairy tale based novels too.
- Alpha Centauri by Robert Siegel [old, you might have problems finding it but try Smashswords]
- They made us read Good Night Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian in primary school. Magorian also has other novels.
- Terry Pratchett has a few novels for younger reader. You can try Maurice and his Educated Rodents or the Tiffany series. There is also The Bromeliad and The Carpet People [not Discworld novels]
- Elizabeth Ann Scarborough writes clean, humorous fantasy novels. Song of Sorcery was pretty good.
- Curse of the Witch-Queen by Paula Volsky
- Diane Duane has a whole lot of YA novels - there is a Wizards series which is lovely and also one with talking cats. The Door Into... series is for adults.
- Patricia A McKillip writes delightful books. Try Od Magic, In the Forests of Serre or The Changling Sea. Most of her stuff is standalone.
- Roald Dahl?
- Most things by Diana Wynne Jones
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon - she has other YA books/graphic novels.
- Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold! by Terry Brooks. There is a completed series, but the first novel can stand on its own. Brooks has also written other things which may be too sad/grownup?
-Novels by Catherine Fisher e.g. Darkhenge, The Glass Tower.
-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Whims of Creation by Simon Hawke
- Firebird by Mercedes Lackey
- Firebird by Peter Moorwood [might not be quite right for your child - the dead guy gets put back together again by his brother-in-laws]
- Moonsinger and Moonsinger's Quest by Andre Norton.
- Drowntide by Sydney J. van Scyoc [most original mermaid story ever - good luck finding it!]
- The girl of the Sea of Cortez - Peter Benchley [NOT a horror novel, rather a love letter to the sea]
- Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper [nothing graphic, but has adult themes, but I read this when I was 11]
- James Harriot - variety of vet stories. [animals do sometimes die, but mostly they were amusing stories]
- Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues under the Seas and Journey to the Centre of the Earth [I would go for the Penguin classics or Oxford Worlds Classics translation if you aren't going to read it in French]
- There are Choose Your Own Adventure books [if you can find them] that might be a nice change?
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson [science]
Pretty much anything by Shannon Hale including Princess Academy and The Books of Bayern
Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series (though I don't know how this one ends, I lost track of it about 5 books in)
Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series (same as Septimus Heap)
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (this one gets a bit dark, but not Harry Potter 7 dark I don't think, but memory is a funny thing, so you may want to screen it first, idk)
Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series
And everything in the Rick Riordan Presents line looks pretty fabulous.
I haven't read any of the Twisted Tales collection or Villains series, sorry. :(
I'm pretty sure she has the Septimus Heap series on her shelf. I think my mom picked them up for her. I can't recall if she has all of them or not. She had mentioned starting them after she finished the Nicholas Flamel series. I'm fairly certain she never finished the Flamel books.
Pretty much anything by Kathryn Lasky.
Historical fiction:
* The "Dear America" series of fictional girls' diaries ( https://www.goodreads.com/series/49549-dear-america )
* The "Royal Diaries" series ( https://www.goodreads.com/series/49534-the-royal-diaries )
Historical fiction with time travel: Mary Pope Osborne's "Magic Tree House" series.
If she liked Percy Jackson, perhaps also Mary Pope Osborne's "Tales from the Odyssey."
Fantasy:
* Tolkien's "Tales from the Perilous Realm" ("Roverandom" -- inspired by Tolkien's dog --, "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major") -- different in style from LOTR
* Michael Ende, "The Neverending Story"
Adventure / Mystery: Enid Blyton, "The Famous Five" and / or "Secret Seven" series
Perhaps Frances Hodgson Burnett: "The Little Princess".
We tried Magic Tree House when she was in first grade (anything to get her away from Junie B. Jones). She didn't like them. One of the twins is currently working her way through them.
The Blyton series is one I had never heard of.
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima
The Heir series by Cinda Williams Chima
Immortals by Tamora Pierce (anything by Tamora Pierce is good - this was just her favorite of all of the series)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Princess of the Midnight Ball and other retellings by Jessica Day George
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (this is YA)
She's sort of in between MG and YA.