Fiction suggestions for sensitive 9 year old?

[Misha]

My 9 year old has become very sensitive about death in books and tends to frighten a bit easily. 

 

We read together during the day and I read to them at bedtime each night and would love some new suggestions. 

 

 

TIA! 

[texasmama]

The Henry Huggins series comes to mind.

[Tanaqui]

Gosh, I feel you. Let me think.

 

Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer - it's a tricky book to read aloud because it's done in letters, but it's so adorable I highly recommend you try anyway.

 

Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School

 

How Tia Lola Came to Stay - very short!

 

The Penderwicks

 

Year of the Dog - there are three books in this series right now, I believe.

 

The Exiles

 

The Grand Plan to Fix Everything - not exactly high literature, but a quick read and a lot of fun

 

Ramona

 

Vanished - does touch on some more serious subjects

 

Clementine

 

Latasha and the Little Red Tornado

[fdrinca]

The Betsy series by Carolyn Haywood. 

http://www.amazon.com/Is-Betsy-Paperback/dp/015205099X?ie=UTF8&keywords=betsy%20carolyn%20haywood&qid=1459046060&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

[Baseball mom]

The Henry Huggins series comes to mind.

 

:iagree:

 

And Carolyn Haywood books --- Betsy series and Eddie series

[Baseball mom]

The Betsy series by Carolyn Haywood. 

http://www.amazon.com/Is-Betsy-Paperback/dp/015205099X?ie=UTF8&keywords=betsy%20carolyn%20haywood&qid=1459046060&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3

 

Great minds!

[Tanaqui]

I might be able to think of a few more. We're dying eggs right now, though. (Dyeing? Is that the way to spell it?) What books do your kids enjoy? If you name a few, that'll help us all narrow down our suggestions a little more accurately :)

[hornblower]

Swallows and Amazons

 

 

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[MercyA]

The All-of-a-Kind Family (and the rest of the series)

In Grandma's Attic (and the rest of the series; Christian content)

Understood Betsy

The Great Cake Mystery (Alexander McCall Smith also wrote other mysteries for children)

Maybe Mama's Bank Account--it's been a while since I read it

Possibly Rabbit Hill

[Misha]

I might be able to think of a few more. We're dying eggs right now, though. (Dyeing? Is that the way to spell it?) What books do your kids enjoy? If you name a few, that'll help us all narrow down our suggestions a little more accurately :)

 

Okay, let me think. 

Likes: 

* They really are enjoying the "Betsy - Tacy" series.

* The "Ramona" series. 

* The "Chronicles of Narnia" 

* The "Bunnicula" series 

* The "Spiderwick Chronicles" 

* The first "Wonder" book - I can't read them "The Julien Chapter" since it made me sob like a baby and I know how much it will upset the 9 y.o. 

 

Started out liking, then stopped: 

* They enjoyed the first two Penderwick books but then my 9 year old got upset because the mother is deceased. 

* Harry Potter (the parents, again) 

* The "Mysterious Benedict Society" - they got freaked out due to the subliminal messages and started worrying. We stopped reading that one just last night. 

 

 

I really appreciate the responses, I want you all to know that.  :001_smile: 

 

[*Lulu*]

The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

 

Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library

 

Ivy and Bean

 

Anne of Green Gables

[nd293]

The Saturdays

 

Mary Poppins

 

Pippi Longstocking

 

I second The Hero's Guide series and Mr Lemoncello's library (ds9 listens on audiobook over and over again)

[Chris in VA]

Be aware there's a major character death in Anne of Green Gables.

Also there's deaths in the last book of the Narnia series.

 

By the Great Horn Spoon and Chancy the Grand Rascal, both by Sid Fleishman, are funny and I don't believe there is any death.

[Violet Crown]

Also the prolific English author Enid Blyton. The Faraway Tree books and the Wishing Chair books.

[Tanaqui]

Good thing you posted that, I was assuming they were more likely sensitive to implied danger and risk and less to long-ago dead parents, but clearly I had it completely backwards if they can handle Narnia but not The Penderwicks.

 

So maybe don't read Vanished - a classmate's dead mom is a central part of the book.

 

Try:

 

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

 

Lowji Discovers America (another one that's a bit short)

 

Bobby the Brave

 

The Year Money Grew on Trees

 

The Boys Start the War

 

Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (but most of the others by her have dead relatives somewhere, even if they're not thought about much)

 

Year of the Book (yet another short one)

 

Children of Noisy Village (and anything by this author, who also wrote the Pippi Longstocking books)

 

Cat Girl's Day Off (no deaths, but the plot involves her trying to solve a kidnapping)

 

The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (I know, I know, but these books are back in print)

 

The Swindle and the MacDonald Hall books by Gordon Korman

 

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher (the children are, of course, adopted but they stay in touch as much as possible with their birth families)

 

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

 

A Year Down Yonder (and other books by that author)

 

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

 

Strawberry Hill

 

The Toothpaste Millionaire

 

Frindle (and other books by this author)

 

President of the Whole Fifth Grade (haven't read this one)

 

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (some scary situations)

 

The Lemonade War

 

Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth

 

The Amy and Laura books (but be careful - a huge plot point in them is that the mother is in an accident and ends up in the hospital for a while)

[maize]

Dealing with Dragons is adventurous but not frightening, Wizards get melted but that is not a permanent condition. The sequels are also good.

 

The Ordinary Princess is lovely.

[ktgrok]

The Trixie Belden series. 

[Misha]

Good thing you posted that, I was assuming they were more likely sensitive to implied danger and risk and less to long-ago dead parents, but clearly I had it completely backwards if they can handle Narnia but not The Penderwicks.

 

So maybe don't read Vanished - a classmate's dead mom is a central part of the book.

 

Try:

 

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

 

Lowji Discovers America (another one that's a bit short)

 

Bobby the Brave

 

The Year Money Grew on Trees

 

The Boys Start the War

 

Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (but most of the others by her have dead relatives somewhere, even if they're not thought about much)

 

Year of the Book (yet another short one)

 

Children of Noisy Village (and anything by this author, who also wrote the Pippi Longstocking books)

 

Cat Girl's Day Off (no deaths, but the plot involves her trying to solve a kidnapping)

 

The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (I know, I know, but these books are back in print)

 

The Swindle and the MacDonald Hall books by Gordon Korman

 

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher (the children are, of course, adopted but they stay in touch as much as possible with their birth families)

 

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

 

A Year Down Yonder (and other books by that author)

 

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

 

Strawberry Hill

 

The Toothpaste Millionaire

 

Frindle (and other books by this author)

 

President of the Whole Fifth Grade (haven't read this one)

 

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (some scary situations)

 

The Lemonade War

 

Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth

 

The Amy and Laura books (but be careful - a huge plot point in them is that the mother is in an accident and ends up in the hospital for a while)

Wow, Tanaqui, thank you so so much for the lengthy list of titles!  :thumbup:

[Misha]

I so appreciate everyone taking the time to make suggestions, I appreciate it very much!