Book ideas for a 10 yr old bookworm

angelil

Nothing wrong with classics for boys! I see some people, but not many, have already mentioned a few. Great for broadening vocabulary and increasing cultural context.

Just William series
Around The World in 80 Days
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
Robin Hood
Swiss Family Robinson
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Children of the New Forest
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
White Fang
Johnny Tremain
The Phantom Tollbooth

The list of possibilities is endless! Happy reading

Ames

lindseylocket wrote: »

Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage , magic and adventure.

Warriors series by Erin Hunter , warrior cat gangs , much better than it sounds!


Hunger games , my 10 year old loved 1 and 2 but found 3 difficult.


The golden acorn. , free on kindle and very good.


Steve backshalls book. , tiger wars.

I'm 31 and loved 1 and 2 but found 3 crap and hard to work out who was in on what secrets.

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

I'm 27 and have joined the library at the school where I work so that I can start reading all of the award winning teen fiction from recent years (better than looking like a beardy weirdy as an adult in teh teen section at the local library )

Currently halfway through Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, which is an enjoyable and thought provoking read. Plenty to sink your teeth into.

I'm writing a children's book and really need to read some books for this age range (officially I think it's classed as 9-12), but don't really want to have to go into the kids section at the library :rotfl:

It's good to see people recommending books I read at that age, as I still have them and so can research at home!

Mado

caroline78 wrote: »

Michael Lawrence writes a series of books about Jiggy McCue....They might be a but young but I am 34 and loved them last year....lol...They are really funny and a bit rude in places...xx

http://www.jiggymccue.com/index.aspx

:rotfl:Another set I forgot.:T
I love Jiggy MCCue too. And the kids as well. Will amend the list!

mrcow wrote: »

Edit: Presuming that you don't mind the odd swear word?

he is my 3rd child, so I guess not!:rotfl:

Thanks every one, plenty of stuff to investigate and keep him interested for ... well, a few weeks at least:rotfl:

Spendless

My son liked this book I bought him at Easter. It's by Simon Mayo (the DJ).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Itch-Simon-Mayo/dp/0552565504

marisco_2

I think it is brilliant your son reads so avidly. Has he read any of the books by Michael Morpurgo? He has written some fabulous stories. Not sure if this would be your sons thing but the 'Diary of a wimpy kid' series are very funny. Horrid Henry. Anything by Enid Blyton. Dr Seuss books. Jacqueline Wilson. Tom's Midnight Garden. The Borrowers. Stig of the Dump. The adventures of Tom Sawyer.

TeaCake

The Michael Grant books starting with Gone.

Mado

marisco wrote: »

I think it is brilliant your son reads so avidly. Has he read any of the books by Michael Morpurgo? He has written some fabulous stories. Not sure if this would be your sons thing but the 'Diary of a wimpy kid' series are very funny. Horrid Henry. Anything by Enid Blyton. Dr Seuss books. Jacqueline Wilson. Tom's Midnight Garden. The Borrowers. Stig of the Dump. The adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Yes, he's read most morpugos.
He is past most of these... Dr Seuss are still on the bookshelves though.
Jacqueline Wilson are a bit too girlie for his taste. Enid Blyton's writing is not brilliant by today's authors standards.

Naggity

The Rangers Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon
Vampirates series by Justin Somper
The name of this book is secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch
Larklight series by Philip Reeve
Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls
Wolf brother series by Michelle Paver
Eragon series by Christopher Paolini
Once series by Morris Gleitzman

15/11/12 - just thought of a couple more:
Gregor the overlander series by Suzanne Collins
The Westing game by Ellen Raskin
Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

Lexxi

There was a group of books called 'point horror' that used to be really popular, but with you saying he didn't like goosebumps, there was another lot called point fantasy that was about dragons and things, I was wondering if they would be any use. There are quite a few books under that heading but they aren't a series or all by the same author, from what I can remember.

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/point-fantasy

You'll need to make sure they're suitable, I just remember them from trips to the Library with school at a similar age

Savvy_Sue

No time to read thread, but ...

Terry Brooks. The Magic Kingdom series is superb and probably the 'youngest', he has done a couple of other fantasy series, but I'd say avoid 'The Word and the Void' series because I found it VERY dark - extremely gripping, but dark!!!

Also Stephen R Donaldson, if he likes something meaty ...