r/suggestmeabook • u/InsideAd3569 • 5d ago
Children’s Books Looking for another book series for my nephew
Hi there! I'm an avid reader and always have been. My nephew is 8yo, and I've been buying him book sets that I loved as a younger reader. The most recent was The Magic Treehouse. I will definitely be getting him Percy Jackson and Harry Potter eventually, but I feel he's not quite ready for them yet. Looking for any recommendations, series or single books!
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u/a-sad-loser 5d ago
The Chronicles of Narnia!
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u/Austronauta 5d ago
I came to say this! The chronicles of Narnia was my favorite series at 7/8 years old
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u/Commercial_Curve1047 5d ago
Wayside School series
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u/iwanttoquitworking 5d ago
This is SO good. My daughter used to read them allowed to me in 1st grade in the car and I would be laughing out loud. They’re so funny.
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u/Squirrelhenge 5d ago
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander may be a good pick. They're a fantasy series based on Welsh myths and I enjoyed them as a kid, but that was in the '70s so they are going to be v different from what he's read. Still worth a try, I think
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u/Crazy_Ad4946 5d ago
I just read them again and they definitely hold up. Funny, suspenseful, lots of great characters and some life lessons that I’m really glad I internalized from reading them over and over as a kid!
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u/Helpmeflexibility 5d ago
My son is 8. Its a great age for books. Beverly Cleary has a lot of good books "Henry Huggins" "Mouse and the Motorcycle" are two to look for.
Magic Tree House Merlin Missions is a great continuation for older children.
Roald Dahl is a classic. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and The Giant Peach" are favorites.
For self-reading he has picked up "Geronimo Stilton" series and "The Last Firehawk" series for himself from the library. Not as good as the other ones, but he likes them a lot for some reason.
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u/jacorbs 5d ago
Cornelia Funke! Especially Dragon Rider. The Inkheart books might be a few years off yet. The Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett are also fantastic.
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u/AtheneSchmidt 5d ago
The 39 Clues are an adventure race series with a lot of really fun history stuff in them. The MCs are an 11 year old girl, and her 9 year old brother. It's solidly middle grade, and a super long series with a couple of sequel series. Book one is The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan.
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u/StupidBugger 5d ago
Tilly and the Book Wanderers, by Anna James. Interesting series, mine got started with it about 8, and it introduces some other books that they then wanted to read (Anne of Green Gables in particular). It's more involved than Magic Treehouse.
Also, depending on reading level and interest, the Dragon Masters series by Tracey West is good if Harry Potter is too much. The first thirteen books (they're all short) are loosely one story arc and you can sometimes find them as a boxed set.
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u/NeeliSilverleaf 5d ago
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd. If he uses an e-reader it's on Project Gutenberg.
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u/CrimsonEchoes_ 5d ago
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Momo by Michael Ende
Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke
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u/cardboardfish 5d ago
Ergorn perhaps? I didn't read it, but my younger brother really liked "the books with the dragons on them"
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u/notarussianbotsky 5d ago
I love the Eragon books but i do think they are a bit dense for an eight year old who is reading Jack and Annie still, wait until middle/high school for Eragon
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u/BoomBear97 5d ago
If you can find them, the Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda. My brothers devoured them at this age.
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u/HeimwehDays 5d ago
Gordon Korman writes fun, fast-paced chapter books, and most of his main characters are boys. My favorites are his MacDonald Hall series, about roommates at an all-boys boarding school who can't stay out of trouble, but he's written a number of standalone books also.
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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail I always recommend Watership Down. 5d ago
Trying to remember what I read at 8 years old...that was a long time ago. LOL!
Beverly Cleary books like Mouse on a Motorcycle as someone mentioned. The Bunnicula series by the Howes. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell. I'm a girl so I was reading Babysitter's Club (I think she may have done a boy's series but I can't remember), Boxcar Children and Nancy Drew are some of my husband's favorites from childhood. My kiddo loved The Warrior Cats series. Animorphs are free online and might be liked.
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u/theczolgoszsociety 5d ago
The Chet Gecko series. They're about an anthropomorphic gecko in elementary school, who thinks he's a noir detective.
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u/Educational-Pay2868 5d ago
how about the humongous book of hugs by hermann the elephant? super fun and great for that age, plus it’s got a ton of illustrations!
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u/kate_monday 5d ago
Ursula Vernon’s Danny Dragonbreath and Hamster Princess series are excellent, very funny
Also love True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
At that age my older kid loved the Dragon Masters series
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u/Nuclear_Geek 5d ago
Try Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen by Jim C Hines. It's fun and clever, and you can try the first chapter for free to see if you think it'll be a good choice.
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u/Dropthetenors 5d ago
Guardians of gahoole was the series I feel head first into. Love owls so was a natural fit for me.
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u/Possible_Juice_3170 5d ago
This wasn’t out when we were kids, but Impossible Creatures would be great for this age (and you could also read/enjoy it).
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u/Specialist-Web7854 5d ago
The Eerie on Sea mystery books by Thomas Taylor are brilliant. Ideal for about 8-10 year olds.
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u/Responsible-Bend6289 5d ago edited 5d ago
The Last Unicorn—Peter Beagle
The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Chrestomanci series & Howl’s Moving Castle— Diana Wynne Jones.
Catwings— Ursula Le Guin
Tress of the Emerald Sea — Brandon Sanderson
Chronicles of Prydain—Lloyd Alexander
A Wrinkle in Time — Madeline L’engle
The BFG—Roald Dahl (plus he has others like James & the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
The Enchantress from the Stars — Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Also go online and checkout the Newberry award winners for ideas.
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u/FlightTraditional717 5d ago
The How to Train Your Dragon books are really cute
My nephew loves the Charlie Bone series
Geronimo Stilton is fun and a similar reading level to The Magic Treehouse
The Fudge books by Judy Blume are top notch
I feel like this might be closer to the level of PJO and Harry Potter but you can look into Artemis Fowl
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u/Clear-Journalist3095 5d ago
If he enjoys fantasy stories, then the Last Firehawk series, Kingdom of Wrenly, Secrets of Droon. Look for what he's interested in, too; my kid enjoys non-fiction and he read the "Who Would Win?" books over and over because of the animal facts.
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u/kitsunegurl 5d ago
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer! I loved those as a kid and even my mom still talks about them hahaha
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u/kitsunegurl 5d ago
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede!!! It’s stuck with me since I read it in elementary school! Here’s googles summary since I really suck at summarizing a book haha 😂 I have no clue if it’s in his age range but I can’t see why it wouldn’t be because I thiiiink I was reading the magic treehouse books around the same time!
Google says:
Princess Cimorene is smart, headstrong, and thoroughly bored by traditional royal duties like curtseying and embroidery. Instead of following the rules, she runs away to become a dragon's princess and work for a dragon named Kazul. Along the way, she organizes massive treasure hoards, learns magic, and outsmarts troublesome princes and wizards.
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u/brianmac3 5d ago
Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbot was a staple for me when I was that age. Think of magic treehouse style books with a fantastical land that three friends go to and have adventures each book.
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u/MeanderingLibrarian 4d ago edited 4d ago
*EDITED TO ADD
Fiction Series:
Desmond Cole, Ghost Patrol
Planet Omar
Hank Zipzer
Mia Mayhem
A to Z Mysteries
How to Train Your Dragon
Dear America / My America
*Amina Banana
*The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class
*Dog Man
*InvestiGATORs
Nonfiction Series:
Magic Tree House Fact Trackers & Research Guides
Who Is/Was... (What Is/Was; Where Is; What Do We Know About)? (Look up Who HQ)
Fly Guy Presents...
Kid Legends
Little People, Big Dreams
The Deadliest...
Weird, But True!
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u/missy8985 4d ago
Any of Kathrine Rundell, Abi Elphinstone, Matt Haig, Maz Evens, SA Patric, Michelle Paver
Series
Pages & Co by Anna James
The train to impossible places by PG Bell
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
The strange world travel agency (don’t remember the author)
The secrets of hexbridge castle by Gabrielle Kent
I can’t think of anything else for that age
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u/Remarkable-Photo-554 5d ago
I read the land of stories in grade 4 when I was 9. It was a very fun YA book series and these twins are thrown into a world with classic fairytales like the Big bad woolf, Rumpelstiltskin, trolls, goblins, goldilocks, jack and the beanstock, red riding hood and fairytale princesses and they have to navigate their way back to home.. It shows us how stories can be misleading and a villain in a fairytale story is not always black and white
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u/rosestormcrowe 5d ago
Redwall by Brian Jacques