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Category: 8-9 Year Olds

These stories for eight- and nine-year-olds offer longer plots, wider casts and choices that cannot always be solved at once. Readers can follow a lost sleigh bell through fog, enter a magical Halloween conflict or travel through history with unusual guides. Traditional tales sit beside superheroes and original fantasy. The selection works for confident independent readers or for chapter-by-chapter reading together.

Stanley the Shoe

Stanley is an old shoe left in the garden, until a city gang offers him a new adventure. This long fantasy bedtime story follows the theft of a magical shoelace and Stanley's decision to make amends. Read it in chapters with older children and talk about the choices he makes.

Fairytale Garden

Twelve-year-old Lily discovers a secret garden that appears to people who need it most. When its magic begins to fade, she must follow a map into a dangerous forest and solve a dragon’s riddle in this fantasy bedtime story for older children.