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Nice!
These are now on our Library hit list :D

it is very incomplete, but maybe it will fill in soon :) I think she's too young for Gaiman stuff like Coraline and The Graveyard Book, which I love, but are, IMHO, too scary for an 8 year old.

She may or may not have already read Coraline :-/
Bad Mom.

I can't really talk, though, as I started sneaking my Dad's Stephen King when I was in the 2nd Grade.
/That/ is definitely too mature for her, but I may let her take a crack at The Graveyard Book this summer when things are bright and beautiful and it's easy to put aside scary thoughts.

If she wanted to read it and liked it that's awesome. I'm way more conservative recommending for other peoples' kids than I would be for my own, since I don't know how easily spooked they are. I loved both of those books. Even the ones I marked as maybe too scary are ones that I totally read when I was 8. They didn't bother me :)

She's way more impacted by, believe or not, violence against parents than anything else.
I think that hits too close to one of her actual fears to be fun. Did you see the movie Mars Needs Moms? That made her cry.
Coraline and movies like Spirited Away have been fine for her because the parents end up OK, but having a Mom disintegrate was too much.

In that case (though it sounds like you already read it) I'll note that Graveyard Book is surprisingly murdery of parents. I also love the Amulet graphic novel series, but the dad dies at the very beginning of the first book and it's very intense.

Oh, yeah - I kind of forgot about that.
I'll feel her out on it, offer it up this summer but not push it if she doesn't dig it.