Books for a 10 year old boy who reads a LOT. I've run out of ideas and we have vouchers to spend!

[MaCosta]

We have £40 of book tokens and the plan for this afternoon (and a poorly boy who is stuck in bed) is to go online and spend them. I'm stuck for suggestions though. He reads a lot and we've done most of the popular series, Rick Riordan, HP, The secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel etc.

He loved the following:

the letter for the king
small change for stuart/big change for stuart
the invention of hugo cabret
wonder
Momo
The Never ending story
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
His Dark Materials

Trying to stay away from dystopia stuff e.g. Hunger games, divergence etc given his age. He has read the Predator Cities series though

Any suggestions for great books we might not have thought of? I was considering Holes.

Similarly if anyone has any suggestions for DS2 (8) who already has his brother's double stacked bookcases to choose from that would be great.

[nappyqueen]

My avid reader recommends the Biggles books, James Bond, Redwall books, Percy Jackson

[Leeds2]

Swallows & Amazons series

Garth Nix books called, I think, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc

[FirstOfficerDouglasRichardson]

Would he like Joe Craig? Charlie Higson?

[cosmicglittergirl]

Wolf Brother. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Six in total by Michelle Paver.

[KeyBored]

7 Professors of the Far North (lightweight, but sometimes that's what you want when unwell)
Professor Branestawm
Sherlock Holmes
Watership Down

[KeyBored]

The Last Dragon chronicles
Little House on the Prairie

[BellaVida]

Treasure Island
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Railway Children
Animal Farm
Swallows and Amazons
Just William
The Famous Five
Tom's Midnight Garden
Any Michael Morpugo stories
George's Secret Key to The Universe (& 3 more books in series) Lucy Hawking

[noblegiraffe]

The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones. Start with The Lives of Christopher Chant.

[TheFirstOfHerName]

The Giver (Lowry)
Secret Breakers series
A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)
Holes (Sachar)
Eragon (Paolini)


I know you said no dystopian stuff, but please make an exception for The City of Ember (DuPrau)

[SisterMoonshine]

The Wolf Brother series

[Takver]

Second vote for Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci series plus others.

[MaCosta]

Great suggestions here thank you.

We've done some of them, chronicles of ancient darkness, chrestomanci, Tom's Midnight garden, lots of Michael Morpurgo, Georges Secret Key and Percy Jackson but lots of new ones for us to look at!

[antimatter]

All David Walliams books.

[wearymum200]

Biggles, Edge Chronicles, Stoneheart series, Brotherband, operation red Jericho, adventure island, hero on a bicycle, tales from Schwartzgarten, goth girl, five children and it on the western front all popular with Ds1.

[cosmicglittergirl]

Berlie Doherty has written some good books too.

[theconstantvacuumer]

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin.

[MaCosta]

Right this is what they chose (with a bit of nudging from me)

City of Ember
Skellig
The Boy who swam with piranhas
Boy in the tower
George and the big bang
The Silver Sword
Holes
When Hitler Stole pink rabbit

That should keep them busy for a while and now they have plenty more from your suggestions for when they get more tokens (school give them out if they read 10 books each term).

[db911]

He's guaranteed to LOVE this ow.ly/3xwfMZ trust me its a definite winner, check it out

[nowwearefour]

Mysterious benedict society

[ragged]

Hardy boys, Diana Wynne Jones, Sam Hudson, Connor Clover I think it's called. I read a lot of Agatha Christie & Dick Francis at that age.

Sherlock as a kid books.

[MartinRohdesBellybuttonFluff]

My DS is devouring the Lemony Snicket books at the moment.

I'll be suggesting the Artemis Fowl series to him once he has finished with LS.

[Fishandjam]

Might be a bit dated now, but what about the Willard Price adventure series? I adored them when I was 10 (and felt very righteous to be a girl reading them too, as they were aimed squarely at boys back in the 1980s!) Will linky in a mo.

[AllThePrettySeahorses]

Am I the first to say Terry Pratchett? Maurice And His Amazing Educatd Rodents, the Johnny/Only You Can Save Mankind series and, of course, the Discword books.

Neil Giman's Coraline, Fortunately The Milk, Odd And The Frost Giants and The Graveyard Book are worth considering too.

[Fishandjam]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Series_(Willard_Price)

[Fishandjam]

Not sure about all the Discworld books, seahorses - unless you're ok with explaining stuff like the Guild Of Seamstresses to a 10 year old!