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Books for very able 10 year old reader

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popsickle555 · 17/12/2024 19:58

DD is just 10 and gets through a book a day. I need more ideas!

she enjoys books about relationships and people and adventure I guess but tends to prefer ‘real life scenarios’ rather than fantasy. She also really likes series of books.

Authors she likes and has read:

Adam kay
sophie Mackenzie
gordon Korman
katie kirby
tom fletcher
jk Rowling (read them all)
Lauren st john
david walliams
cath howe
treehouse series
Elly Griffiths
michael Morpurgo (doesn’t love these)
onjali Rauf

shes obviously read and in many cases re read all of these. Can anyone give my any ideas? She has a sibling who is almost 4 years older and keeps taking her books which are not that appropriate so I need ideas of authors.

Thank you

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Worldgonecrazy · 17/12/2024 20:22

I was a precocious reader and enjoyed Watership Down, and The Duncton Wood Chronicles. Time to move to longer adult classics - maybe some sci fi or longer fantasy novels? Depends what genre might grab their attention. The

Pinkmoonshine · 17/12/2024 20:19

E Nesbit / Anne of Green Gables series - the language and sentence structures are more challenging.

Noel Stretfield.

Fivews · 17/12/2024 20:13

Also
Skellig
Boy at the back of the class
How I became a dog called midnight
House with the chicken legs
Castle of tangled magic

OrsolaRosso · 17/12/2024 20:12

Jane Eyre, Secret Garden, Little Women, Black Beauty

InWalksBarberalla · 17/12/2024 20:11

Morrigan Crow series (by Jessica Townsend)
Percy Jackson series
Narnia

Fivews · 17/12/2024 20:11

The Lottie Brooks books by Kate Kirby sound right up her street.
My 9yr old is a bookworm and is devouring the Percy Jackson series

DIVivienneDeering · 17/12/2024 20:09

Anything by MG Leonard is great.

AbitSceptical · 17/12/2024 20:08

Holes.
Hatchet.
Percy Jackson series

AbitSceptical · 17/12/2024 20:07

Oh and how to train your dragon series / other series by same author

TitusMoan · 17/12/2024 20:07

None of those books are up to much really in terms of quality. I’d second the recommendation for classic children’s books. Look at the lists of best children’s books on Google eg the BBC one. There are lots of ideas there.

AbitSceptical · 17/12/2024 20:06

Ross Welford. 1000 year old boy is great. Love all his novels

LadyQuackBeth · 17/12/2024 20:04

Robin Stevens seems a good next step, my DDs class (well the handful of keen girl readers) devoured them at 10.

Or the Enola Holmes series.

DelurkingAJ · 17/12/2024 20:01

Has she read a good selection of ‘classic’ children’s books? So Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan etc. vocab can be more challenging (archaic was the term DS1’s teacher used) but that’s no bad thing.

KneesUnder · 17/12/2024 20:00

PG Wodehouse?