What should every (9 year old) child have read?

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DS1 is nine tomorrow. He is being given a kindle by the pil as he is such a bookworm but I am running out of ideas of what he could read.
He's read the usual how to train, northern lights, Harry potter etc so I've been adding classics to it
So far I have
The story of the treasure seekers
Around the world in 80 days
Treasure Island
Swiss family Robinson
Five children and it
The secret garden
The railway children
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island

I've looked for various others such as the ogre downstairs and the phantom tollbooth and will look in the library instead.

Would welcome other ideas

The Complete Works of Roald Dahl.

Second the R Dahl recommendation.
Michael Morpego?
David Walliams?

Roald Dahl from me too - essential childhood reading imho.
David Walliams children's books are great too.
Michael Morpurgo is fantastic as well.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series are also brilliant
The Mr Gum series - I hate them but my dd loved them
The Borrowers (not just for girls imho)

I would also recommend:

The Various Trilogy by Steve Augarde
The Seeing Stone series by Kevin Crossley- Holland
Possibly the Ingo series by Helen Dunmore
The Golden Acorn series by Catherine Cooper

I suspect they would be easy reads for your ds if he is into what you have suggested but they are great fun.

As for classics:

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Marjorian
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
White Fang by Jack London
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (if he is a very good reader)

Fantastic suggestions. As I know he would love most of them, because he did

There are a few he hasn't read yet though so thank you. I will add them to the list

journey to the river sea- eva ibottson
doomspell - cliff mcneish?
Anthony Horowitz
skyhawk -gill lewis
Ursula le grun- a wizard of earthsea

There is no way my 9yos would be mature enough to read most of that, would find it boring & turgid stuff, did not have the stamina for such books. but to each their own, I guess!

EB White good classics for mine. First Harry Potter book.

ragged my dd is 11, and a good reader and would hate most of the classics mentioned but they all like different stuff. She is reading Judy Blume just now

Tom Gates books are brilliant, 9yo DS nearly read all three, laid out really well, brilliant, and all David Walliams book - hilarious!

Books by Eoin Colfer

Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

More in the classic direction - The Green Knowe books by Lucy M.Boston, The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk by John Masefield and the Swallows and Amazons series.

My daughters (both grown up now) both remember me reading the Greek myths to them with their explanation of the seasons etc.

Oh Green Knowe, I remember looking in the library but they didn't have them, I couldn't find my copies. Will have a look on kindle.

I do appreciate all these suggestions. A lot of the more recent ones he has read but there are ones being mentioned that he hasn't.

As much as I like real books more I think I'm going to like this kindle as we are in rented and moving all the books around is difficult.

The ones I mentioned in the op are mostly free so if he doesn't like them it's no problem.

I have a lot of my old books so he's read a lot of them, Swallows and Amazons, Borrowers, Elinor Lyon, Malcolm Saville etc. I now know how my Mum felt and why their house was floor to ceiling books

Anything by Alan Garner is great, especially as the quality of the writing / imagery is so brilliant.

Cynthia Harnett
Geoffrey Trease
Henry Trease
The phantom tolbooth
D K Broster
Rupert of Hentzau
The dolphin crossing
The silver sword
The good master, the singing tree
The scarlet pimpernel
Rogue male
King Solomons mines
The 39 steps, greenmantle, huntingtower
Holes
Easy Agatha Christie
Gerald Durrell
Laurens van Der post on Africa
The trumpet major or the woodlanders
The little prince
All of the Laura ingalls wilders but prob beginning with farmer boy
The incredible journey
The call of the wild and white fang
My friend Flicka
Fattipuffs and Thinifers
Bevis
Stalky and co
Tom brown's schooldays

Hth

Cornelia Funke
Rick Riordan

Ahhhh the memories
Neil gamen - modern not classic sorry

Ahhhh the memories
Neil gamen - modern not classic sorry

Oh some brilliant ones
Some I have on paper so will hunt out others I will search on the kindle for

Not needing classics, just that hes read a huge amount of the recent popuklar books so was wondering if there was another way to branch out

Oh I hope he likes 39 steps, I love it and even more so now that I picture Rupert Penry-Jones as Hannay

Kidnapped and Catriona too.

I started enjoying Hardy at 10, not Jude nor Tess but the shorter ones. I think I started on the long downhill slope if addiction to detective fiction about this age. Christie, D L Sayers with murder must advertise.

Wind in the willows?
Black beauty?

I recall finding a tale of two cities more appreciable than copperfield.

Saki

Quite soon Sassoon. Once he's read Greenmantle.

Your question is addictive.

Professor Branestorm
The sword in the stone and the once and future king
Mistress Masham's repose
The Master
The dark is rising series
Three men in a boat
Siobhan dowd, the London eye mystery, maybe a bit young for bog child
How to be topp
The Botswana precious ramotse series by mccall smith
I think I read gorky's childhood around 10 ish (we were living in a place where it was hard to get books and you just had to read what was available).

If you have a library anywhere near, let him loose in the adult section. You can always say as my dm did " I think you'll enjoy that more when you are older.."

dd (9 and a voracious reader) has just thoroughly enjoyed Edward Eager's books - Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle and The Time Garden - beautifully written and very funny - she's now onto The Sword in the Stone which seems to be going down well

other recent hits - Phantom Tollbooth, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Northern Lights, The Wizard of Oz, Flambards, The Black Stallion, My Friend Flicka, The Silver Brumby (anything with a horse in really ...) and if you can get hold of the 1963 edition, Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger (much better than the current edition which inexplicably has lots of the funniest bits cut out)

ooh and The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (Eric Linklater), The Magic Pudding, 20,000 leagues under the Sea, Pippi Longstocking

Yikes, I'm 44 and I'd run a mile at the idea of Dickens, I've never quite picked up Lord of the Rings either DDs 15 year old friend loved it, she gave up and listened to the audio book.

Some of these look very very heavy going at 9.
DD2 reads incredibly well, when she can be bothered which is sadly very rarely.
Suggestions for getting a very able 11 yo who hates fantasy of Jackie bloody Wilson

Christopher Paolini?s Eragon books are a great hit with DD1 (14, but dyslexic and suddenly learnt to read 4 months before her SATs), she also likes Twighlight and the horrible Hunger games, but the less said about that the better.

Skulduggery is another fav.

The Phantom Tolbooth
Stig of the Dump