The youngest student is almost a completely grown-up person. All fairy tales with a good ending have already been read, and the question arises - why is it different in life? There are already school friends and foes with whom you need to build difficult relationships. In search of answers to his difficult questions, the child turns to books.
Right now, the child will be interested in school topics: beloved and unloved teachers, relationships with classmates, curious cases in the classroom. They wrote about the school: Victor Dragunsky "Deniskin's stories", Nikolay Nosov "Vitya Maleev at school and at home", Vladislav Krapivin "Boy with a sword", "Musketeer and a fairy." J. Rowling's Harry Potter series also tells the story of school life, despite the magical surroundings and dark prophecies.
The wind blows the sails
A little romantic and explorer cannot be left without adventures. Having discovered the wonderful world of Jules Verne, he will avidly read The Children of Captain Grant, The Mysterious Island, The Fifteen Years Captain and 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Passion for pirates will not allow you to miss "Treasure Island" by Robert L. Stevenson, and if knights are more to your liking, then his "Black Arrow" or "Robin Hood" by Irina Tokmakova.
New worlds
Despite the fact that fairy tales are in the past, the charms of other worlds will not soon let go of the young reader. It's time for the fantasy books - "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Chronicle of Narnia by Clive, pp. Lewis, "Arthur and the Miniputes" by L. Besson. This also includes Edith Nesbit's fascinating trilogy "Five Children and the Beast", "Phoenix and the Carpet" and "Talisman", where children meet a sand fairy and travel through time.
Next to fantasy on the bookshelves, there is traditionally science fiction, and for this age category - more like space fiction. Here and Kir Bulychev with a series of books about the adventures of Alisa Selezneva, and Sergei Lukyanenko "Boy and Darkness", and Vladislav Krapivin "Outpost on the Anchor Pole", "Dovecote on a yellow glade".
Our smaller brothers
Stories about animals teach children to empathize, take care of pets, and take responsibility for them. E. Setton-Thompson, E. Charushin, J. London wrote many wonderful stories about wild and domestic animals. F. Salten's story "Bambi" allows you to look at the well-known history from a different perspective. And the touching story of the Arctic fox in A. Koval's "Nedopesk" will not leave the little reader indifferent.
A child of 8-9 years old has already grown up to such a genre as a detective story. In the popular genre of children's detective, it is worth noting Enid Blyton's "The Magnificent Five", "The Secret Seven", "Five Secret Seekers and a Dog".
It is impossible to ignore works of a social and moral nature - about people, their lives and feelings. These are Anne-Katrina Westley "Dad, Mom, 8 Children and a Truck", Eleanor Porter "Pollyanna", Edith Nesbit "Children of the Railroad". These books teach readers to evaluate their own and others' actions, take care of the people around them, and help those who need help.
