Books for very able 10 year old reader

Oh and also MG Leonard.

My DD10 has enjoyed books by:

Christopher Edge (Escape Room, Black Hole Cinema Club, Jamie Drake Equation)
JJ Arcanjo (Crook Island series)
Robyn Stevens
Nancy Springer (Enola Holmes series)
Beth Lincoln (The Swifts series)
Chris Smith (Frankie Best Hates Quests, Clarity Jones)

She reads a lot, although is less keen on the “classics” that I enjoyed as a child as she doesn’t find them very relatable.

The first 50 years of the Carnegie List?

Eva Ibbotson, especially the jewel of Kazan and the river sea ones.
murder most unladylike series
the Hobbit
Everything by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Everything by Katherine Rundell
Lois Lowry the giver series

I've got a ten year old precocious fantasy fan here, and I've had to chuck Lord of the Rings at him just to slow the speed with which he gets through books.

Also: His Dark Materials (and now the Book of Dust)

The Eragon series (and anything to do with dragons- he scorched through How to Train your Dragon a couple of years ago).

I'm thinking of turning him loose on the Fantasy shelves at the library (but vetting his choices!).

I do believe that reading the classics will broaden vocabulary which is never a bad thing. Modern books tend to use a more limited spread - I appreciate I am generalising. I’d suggest:

Agatha Christie,
the Hobbit,
Chalet School,
the Enid Blyton “of Adventure” books,
the Dark is Rising series,
came across Wodehouse at around that age and loved it,
Cynthia Harnett’s the Woolpack,
Swallows and Amazons,
Ruby Ferguson’s Jill books, particularly if she’s likes ponies

But why do books have to be about the quality of them? Reading is reading and if the OP's kid is reading that's a great head start already.
I'd let her loose in your local library and see what she likes the look of .

I strongly disagree that the classics are better than the best contemporary fiction (books which are the classics of tomorrow & better reflect the world our children are actually living in) but that’s probably for another thread!!

I’d really recommend-

Kiran Millwood Hargreaves

Katherine Rundell

Hannah Gold

Natasha Farrant

John Boyce (especially the Boy at the top of the mountain)

Stuart Foster (especially Kick)

If my words had wings by Danielle Jawando

Boy 87 by Eli Fountain

Once is stunning, but quite tough emotionally.

Some I haven’t seen mentioned already that I liked at her age (I was also a voracious reader):
Agatha Christie
Gerald Durrell
The Nancy Drew mysteries.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Harvey Angell
Goodnight Mr Tom
A Christmas Carol
Danny the Champion of the World

The classics are great, but modern books aren't "less literary"! They can be, if they're celebrity-written trash like David Walliams etc. but there are real children's writers who are producing fantastic books suited to today's children. Some authors or series to try out

Impossible Creatures
The Last Bear (and others by Hannah Gold)
Inkbound, Philipa Leathley
MG Leonard books
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant (and others in the series)
Orphans of the Tides trilogy
Boy, Everywhere by AM Dassu
Anything by Emma Carroll

If she likes Harry Potter get her into Percy Jackson - my almost 12 year old absolutely adores it - as do I after stealing her book! Personally think it’s actually better than HP. If she’s not too sensitive to death then maybe the hunger games as well as my daughter is currently obsessed

My suggestions have already been mentioned. My able ten year old loves Robin Stevens and the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Also Katherine Rundell.

Howl’s Moving castle series
Ruby in the smoke series
Mortal Engines

Little Women
Anne of Green Gables

my daughter loved the ‘Geek Girl’ series by Holly Smale for ages 10years and up.

Lots of the suggestions on here wouldn’t be challenging for an able 10 year old (Enid blyton, roald dahl, Jacqueline Wilson). Is she very capable, or just fast? Not every book has to be a challenge of course, but those won’t do much for expanding her vocabulary or moving her reading on. They might be good for quick reads for entertainment of course which is fine. And all of them have loads of books so if she likes them she’s got some to keep her going for a while!

Philip Pullman has some good ones (his dark materials particularly), but they are mostly fantasy. Stormbreaker is also popular, and as mentioned before Percy Jackson (fantasy again!)

By the way need to take care not to read too much. It can lead to short sightedness.
I read all the time as a child. Never needed reading glasses until nearly 50.

Reading glasses don't correct myopia/shortsightedness. I am shortsighted, and I don't wear glasses for reading. I wear them for watching television or when I'm out, to read things at a distance.

(I did read a lot as a child and I needed glasses from about seven, but I have no idea whether the two things were related.)

I think that's a myth dating back to Victorian era.

I read all the time as a child. Never needed reading glasses until nearly 50.
Dh did not read much and needed reading glasses at 35.
Out of my siblings, my bro was the one of us who read the least and he needed reading glasses at the youngest age too.

Screen use is far more likely to effect it, and if she's reading books then that will be keeping her off screens.

Marcus Sedgwick

I’m always recommending this website .They really know their stuff. Probably worth looking at the Year 7 recommendations.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks3-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-7-pupils-ks2-age-11-12/

I was a voracious reader as a kid. I read the bible from cover to cover. Also Mrs Beeton!. Rosemary Sutcliffe. All the Chalet School books. Gordon Cooper. Dickens. My mother's cookery books. Newspapers. The Readers Digest.

Katherine Rundell
Emma Carroll
Liz Kessler
Eva Ibbotson
Jacqueline Wilson
David Almond
Ben Miller
David Baddiel
Ross Welford

Totally agree about the classics too. The Works do a great set.

The Wildings (long beautiful story of cats living in Dehli) and its sequels

The Hobbit?

I also read a lot at that age. Some of my favourite writers were:

James Herriot
K.M. Peyton
Joan Aiken
Nina Bawden
Molly Hunter
Margaret Mahy

Also agree that reading books absolutely does not destroy your eyesight so long as you make sure you have enough light. Prolonged mobile phone use can though.