Girls especially like…

Some series that appeal to girls:

Fashion Kitty comic – Charise Mericle Harper
Babymouse comic – Jennifer M. Holm and Matthew Holm
Animal Ark – Ben M. Baglio
Puppy Place – Ellen Miles
American Girl – various authors
Wild at Heart – Laurie Halse Anderson
Fairies series – Daisy Meadows
Beacon Street Girls – Annie Bryant
Cobble Street Cousins – Cynthia Rylant
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ramona – Beverly Cleary
Babysitters Club and Babysitters Little Sisters – Ann M. Martin
Doll people – Ann M. Martin
Ivy + Bean – Annie Barrows
Clementine – Sara Pennypacker
Just Grace – Charise Mericle Harper
Amber Brown – Paula Danziger
Magic Treehouse – Mary Pope Osborne

Some authors who appeal to girls:

Judy Blume
Esme Raji Codell
Lois Lowry
Hilary McKay
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Dick King-Smith
Gail Carson Levine
Frances Hodgson Burnett

More recommendations:

For graphic novels and comics, try Sidekicks
Try one of these bibliographies:
Let’s hear it for the girls: 375 great books for readers 2-14 by Erica Bauermeister and Holly Smith
Once upon a heroine: 450 books for girls to love by Alison Cooper-Mullin and Jennifer Marmaduke Coye