Please suggests some other books for my 10 yr old DD, something with a bit more to them

I also loved the 'Flambards' books when I was in the 'everything about horses' phase. Good to see so many of my childhood favourite books are still so popular; can't wait until our daughter starts reading them.

'England is Truly a Magical Place', by Karl Woodbury is a book your DD might enjoy. Written in rhyming couplets, it tells the story of Jenny and Lenny as they fly around England discovering and learning all about England's people and places; lots of fun and full of interesting snipits of history and geography. There's also an audio cd with the book too. (This book was written by my husband.)

My favourite book at that age was "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. My son read it recently (my tatty old Puffin copy) and loved it too!

AT that age, DD loved Roman Mysteries. She read them one after the other, I even had to buy her the quiz books and stuff to go with them.

Also Vampirates, Skulduggery Pleasant, Percy Jackson, Nancy Drew, Lauren St. John.

Has she read Lionboy by Zizou Corder? I just read it and really like it. Also enjoying the Cat royal adventure series by Julia Golding and the "Dead wicked" books by Debbie Gliori.

All recommended to me by year 5 and 6 girls .
I adored Monica Edwards books at that age ( and still do) . Can recommend Little house on parie series ( my 9-12 yr old neices like them lots) Also the Diceys song/ solitary blue series.

I was weaned off pony books by the Flambards stories.

Also, shamelessly nicking an idea from another thread, Rumer Godden's The Diddokoi might be worth tracking down.

Susan Cooper, "the Dark is Rising" series

Alan Garners books, "the Weirdstone of Brisingamen", "the Moon of Gomrath"

LLoyd Alexander "Chronicles of Prydain" series

I also loved at that age all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books - Pioneers across the mid west of America.

And although I was not a girli girl,I loved all the Lousia M Allcott Books about Jo...so Little Women Right through the series to Jo's boys.

Loved Judy Bloom as a kid, i had all the point horror books too for abit of trashy reading :)

There's a wonderful series of 4 books by Helen Dunmore - Ingo. DS was lent the first one by a teacher, raced through it and bought the others with his own money. I had a read myself and they are brilliant.

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T.H White - The Once and Future King. Lots of stuff going on in that one, and a really interesting tke on the Arthus legend. I second Diana Wynne Jones too. Oh, and what about Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series?

In answer to your op, I have to share my fave book ever, from my childhood

A Stable For Jill. I know it's horsey, but its a great book. It was one of my mum's fave too.

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo is great, ( set near where i live!)

Also, my dd9, recommends Jacqueline Wilson, Bed and Breakfast Star esp, and The Warrior Cats book series.

Ooh ooh, Ursula Le Guin, Earthsea books. I think I wax about that age when I first found them.

Someone suggested Gerald Durrell books for my DD the other day and if your DD is keen on animal stories then I would imagine that might be a good option.

My whole Y6 class fell in love with Michael Morpurgo's books after our teacher read us Kensuke's Kingdom...the bit about Nagasaki I didn't really catch onto. But I definitely second his books. "Cool" is good too.

Micheal Morpurgo -War Horse is emotional. Non-horse-related, Kensuke's Kingdom

Michael Morpurgo has lots of books about animals and my daughter loves them. She also loved Heidi, My Family and Other Animals and Carrie's War.

Diana Wynne Jones is fantastic as is Eoin Colfer (and he does more than just Artemis Fowl).

Would she like anything funny? My DS (nearly 10) really likes the Mr Gum and the Wilma Tenderfoot books. When I was that age I loved Lois Lowry's books (especially Anastasia books) the Narnia series, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, and some classics like Little Women, The Secret Garden etc.

Diana Wynne Jones - fantasy/real world mixtures
Agatha Christie - the Poirot and Miss Marple short stories might grab her
Noel Streatfeild - similar children-need-money-and-pull-together plots to many of the horsy stories like Jill etc.
Cynthia Voight - Homecoming etc - kids finding their Gran in the eastern US - there's some horses making appearances
Possibly Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books - set in medieval fantasy planet so lots of horses needed for transport!

I churned through almost all the Nancy Drew books followed by Hardy Boys and the Three Investigators, when I was 10-12. I certainly learned new vocab and stuff from the first dozen and the rest were consolidation.

Judy Blume and Paula Danziger might grab her - they're about growing up etc.

Ooh yes, Swallows and Amazons, lovely. And Christie too! Glad to know I wasn't the only precocious early reader with an adult taste.

I've just realised how much social history I picked up when I was really quite young from books like these. I hope your DD does too. It will stand her in great stead when she gets to secondary.

Goodnight Mr. Tom

Second Lauren St John and recommend Erin Hunterl.