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BOOKS for 10 yr old dd and 11 yr old son PLEASE!!

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hullygully · 24/06/2008 08:30

We will be away for two months in the Summer and both my kids are great readers (no friends/ machines there, you see!). I need suggestions for both of them. They have read the Little House series, Harry Potters, Warriors, Noel Streatfield, Horowitz, a lot of the children's classics. I need long complicated books so they last and partic faves are action spies, and ponies (not Heartland, read those). ANY suggestions? Please? Thanks.

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MrsWeasley · 24/06/2008 23:58

My DS, aged 11 years, enjoys these

christywhisty · 24/06/2008 23:52

oops
Maxiumum Ride books by James Patterson

christywhisty · 24/06/2008 23:50

DS 12 loved

[[http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&tag=firefox-uk-21&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords= maximum%20ride&sourceid=Mozilla-search Maximum Ride Books by James Patterson]

There are also a series called Cherub by Robert Munchmore which Ds hasn't read but some of his friends have recommended

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hullygully · 24/06/2008 13:39

Thank you both very much, some brilliant ideas. (I particularly like the "related search" which comes up on the Amazon link for "Pick Me Up" which is "Confessions of an Air Hostess"....Will start ordering frantically.

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Bink · 24/06/2008 12:29

Ah, OK.
Well, do you know Red House books? For situations like yours, I'd go for just masses of their LOVELY bargain compendia, whether or not I rated the books themselves already, so:

Wikit Chronicles

Geraldine McCaughrean batch, as suggested by Marina

Philip Pullman, if not done already

And then there is Red House's more generalist sibling company, Book People:

Lost collection

Spiderwick batch

Dr Who batch

The Dr Who batch I'd recommend especially - the writing itself is a bit easy, & they look quite short, but this particular lot are written like flow-charts with different possible sequences - so you read one chapter, then decide which is going to be your next, and then the next ... it means the books can be read over & over again before they are exhausted. (We took them to Greece in April )

There's tons more - look under the "collections" headings.

Marina · 24/06/2008 12:16

Have they read Young Bond and also Tunnels and Deeper?
How about Michele Paver? Chris Riddell's Edge Chronicles?
Action/chase/caper stuff, can you try for some Paul Berna on Abebooks? He is OP these days but was HUGE in France and Britain in the 70s and his books are gripping according to ds
You have not mentioned history. Your dd might enjoy Alison Plowden's Danger to Elizabeth and Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time, also Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Rosemary Sutcliff: Eagle of the Ninth
C Northcote Parkinson, Ponies Plot (also Abebooks alas) is excellent vintage horse fun
Ds also loves Molesworth for light relief
and take this with you too, perhaps?
Geraldine McCaughrean's Britannia is a compendium of stories about British history definitely aimed at 8 pluses...

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hullygully · 24/06/2008 12:05

Thank you. We will be up a mountain miles from anywhere in Greece, hence need to get 'em in advance..I might not make the shops before we go (vv busy and HATE shopping)so was going to get them from Amazon.

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Bink · 24/06/2008 11:54

PS bubblagirl's suggestion is really good - we do that too. Holiday places tend to have very well-stocked 2nd hand shops.

Bink · 24/06/2008 11:53

If you're in the UK (and going elsewhere within the UK) you can get temporary membership of the library where you're going - just drop in with your home library cards (obv. you have to be library members at home first, but I'm presuming you are - if not, though, it only takes minutes) & they'll sign you up.

This has been BRILLIANT for us.

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hullygully · 24/06/2008 11:48

Bump.

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bubblagirl · 24/06/2008 08:34

could you have alook in a charity shop all sorts of age appropriate books pass through there and cheap and you can send them back when done or give away having saved money