Very mundane question (re books for an avid reader - 10yo)

[Crunchymum]

Just going into year 6.

Devours books.

Had just finished The Hunger Games series (has also done the HP series, several times). He's done most of Beast Quest and Sea Quest plus several shelves of non series books.

He's happy to re-read books but has outgrown a lot of our books (Last Kids on Earth / Diary Of a Wimpy Kid)

Any recommendations?

[We hit the library regularly too and I think he's read all he wants to from our local one]

Theodore Boone books also went down well!

The Frostheart series (3 books) by Jamie Littler is good. You could also look at Katherine Rundell e.g. Rooftoppers or The Good Thieves. My 10 year old also enjoyed Catherine Doyle's trilogy starting with the Storm Keeper's Battle.

Our son loved Just William at that age. Our daughter, Harry Potter.

Dd1 has enjoyed the Adventures on trains series, and also Crookhaven.

Ds also enjoyed The Butterfly club books by M A Bennett (eg the ship of doom). There are loads of great suggestions here.

Anna James
Katherine Rundell
Sophie Anderson
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Maz Evans
Jenny Pearson

At same age my DS loved the skullduggery series, which is pretty long so should take up some time. Second Percy Jackson. Also Theodore Boone (Grisham), sadly only 3 I think. There's Alex Rider and then there's also the Power of 5 books. Take a look in The Works, you can pick up a series for much cheaper than buying individual books.

Neil Gaiman’s YA, especially The Graveyard Book.

Holes by Louis Sachar.

The Morrigan Crow books by Jessica Townsend
Magician (and the rest of the series) by Raymond Feist
The Skandar series by A F Steadman

My 10 year old loves Alex rider books

Tyger by SF Said was my favourite children's book last year. Out in paperback this week. A fairly quick read but so many layers to it.

Also an avid reader, our son loved the Little House on the Prairie books.

My 10 yr old loves skullduggery pleasant at the moment. A series of unfortunate events is excellent, 11 books in total I think.

Anthony Horowitz, was very popular in our household.

Also Clive Mantle's Freddie Malone book series

Terry Pratchet is your friend :) can’t go wrong with the Discworld.

Some of these might be a bit old fashioned as it’s based on what me and DH read as avid readers at that age (we have every book DH has ever owned in our house currently so am using the bookshelves for guidance), but also what we’ve bought for our nieces / nephews :

The Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken

Skellig by David Almond

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

The Molly Moon series by Georgia Byng

The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper

The How to Train your dragon series by Cressida Cowell

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d’Lacey

Books of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan

The Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke

The Surya trilogy by Jamila Gavin

Paul Gallico books - Jennie, Thomasina the Cat Who Thought She Was God, Manxmouse

The Spy School series by Stuart Gibbs

The Once series by Morris Gleitzman

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques

The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence

The Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin - especially Wizard of Earthsea (the first book)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Giver Quartet series by Lois Lowry

The Furthermore series by Tahereh Mafi

The Greenglass House series by Kate Milford

Michael Morpurgo books - Kensuke’s Kingdom, The Butterfly Lion, Private Peaceful, Why the Whales Came, An Eagle in the Snow etc.

Echo by Pam Munez Ryan

The Rats of Nimh series by Robert O’Brien and Jane Leslie Conly

The Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini

Brian’s Saga series by Gary Paulsen

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver

The Adventure Series by Willard Price

The York series by Laura Ruby

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Goosebump series by RL Stine

Agree with all the above. DS is a massive fan of Percy Jackson, skullduggery pleasant, the juvenile Arthur c Clark's

He also read his way through the cherub series and loved the first few but there's sex in one of them (think it's the 7th or 9th in the series) which he found very traumatic and had nightmares and demanded mind bleach to get over. (He's very sweet and innocent, but high school next week might change that!)

This is a BRILLIANT list (and I seriously respect the impeccable alphabetisation of your bookshelves! ). I particularly loved the Redwall books as a child, and would also recommend the Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis.

One word of caution; ten is a bit young for Noughts and Crosses. I’d save it until approx 12.

@ThanksItHasPockets thank you! I will pass on your compliments to my DH - his bookshelves are his pride and joy!

Good point on Noughts and Crosses - I am fairly sure I read them as they came out and I was about 10 when the first one did. But, my parents gave no oversight to what I was reading so it’s perfectly possible that I shouldn’t have read it until I was a bit older.

Thank you all once again.

I'm going to make a list and see what we can get our hands on.

He hasn't actually read any of the Narnia books, not sure how I forgot about those!!

Love this thread, I’m getting so many ideas for DS. @Crunchymum how did your son find the hunger games? Are particularly gruesome? My ds could definitely read them, but I’m not sure if they’re a bit too old? I wouldn’t let him watch the films just yet, but I haven’t read the books so not sure what they’re like. Thanks

My 10 year old read the hunger games. He enjoyed them but they were a little gruesome and sad for him. He is quite sensitive though.

There is a lot in the books that was left out of the films in order to ensure 12A certificates (the original cut of the first film was a 15). If you wouldn’t let him watch the films then he shouldn’t read the books.

He enjoyed them and didn't seem to find them particularly gruesome, I have to confess to not having read them or seen the films myself but a few of his friends had read them so I kind of went with it.