Ideas for just 10 year old girl with a quirky sense of humour

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...who has done Ottoline, Mr. Gum, Horrid Henry, "How to train/feed/potty-train your dragon", Roald Dahl, History Spies, Enid Blyton, biographies. Looking for Christmas books. Not Harry Potter or anything to do with beasts, underpants or wimpy kids.

Forgot to say, she likes book series, and I do to because I can then ask Grandparents and Aunts to buy a book in a series.

madame pamplemouse books - maybe a little easy but good

not funny but what about the Michael Morpurgo books

clarice bean

my family and other animals

Narnia

the demon headmaster

Anne of Green Gables

Borrowers

Heidi

amy good? I can keep going?

I'm Alice, I Think by Susan Juby. The main character is a very funny, smart, quirky young teenager growing up in a remote Canadian town. I think it's a series of two or three novels nows. Would be great for a matureish 10 year old.

yeah i was going to suggest my family and other animals too

Stig of the Dump

101 Dalmations

The Twilight Barking

The Railway Children

(all classics that my similar-aged dd has enjoyed).

ohh sorry thinking more dd1 has loved the pendlewicks (2 books) and they are funny

and not funny but good the moomins and the children of green knowe

Something by Philip Ridley (Vinegar Street, Mighty Fizz Chilla, Dakota of the White Flats...).

Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King also good, or other books by him (v quirky)...

mr stink??

Holes by Louis Sachar? - (and many of his other books.)

Professor Branestawm (sp)

Has she read the Lemony SNicket series? SHould be right up her street.

Funny books:

The Phantom Tollbooth

My Friend Mr Leakey, by J B S Haldane

Professor Branestawm series

Green Smoke, by Rosemary Manning

Quirky books:

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The Molly Moon series? My dd is 8 but she was recommended them by her 10 y/o friend.

They are definitely quirky - in fact downright bizarre from a quick flip - and according to dd very funny.

I love MN! Keep them coming.

A bit old fashioned, but has she read the Demon Headmaster books - quirky, though I guess more adventure than funny.

Ohhh, Phantom Tollbooth - how I loved that book...

Series of unfortunate events

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series - loved by all the children in ds's mixed class

Judy Blume
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Coraline, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cathy Cassidy, Judy Blume - all big hits with dd 10 yo.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I read it when I was nearly ten and was absolutely entranced.

Dark Materials? - too dark?

Magic faraway tree??

Pongwiffey. So funny, tea came out of my nose!

The diamond brothers series by Anthony horowitz

We are reading the boy in a dress by David walliams. Love it. My daughter is 11