Recommendations for 10yo DD

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DD will soon be 10 and I want to get her some books, individual or box sets.

She has read things like Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams, Harry Potter, Black Beauty, Tom Gates, Roald Dahl etc.

Are there any recommendations of books I can get her? I'd like to venture towards the older classics like The Railway Children and Anne of Green Gables but it's such a long time since I've read them I can't remember if they are any good for her age. So anything along that vein would be excellent.

Thanks in advance.

DS is 10 and loved Anne of Green Gables (and Heidi)! He has also enjoyed

A Series of Unfortunate Events
Chrestomanci series
The Wizards of Once
Wonder
Archie Greene trilogy
Fabled Beast Chronicles
The Hobbit
The Dark is Rising
Green Knowe series
Narnia
A Little White Horse

He also loves Dork Diaries, which is literary bubblegum, but sometimes it's nice to have something less challenging.

Might she like Swallows and Amazons?

Eva Ibotson's books
Noel Streatfeild's books - Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes, Circus Shoes etc...
Enid Blyton - Malory Towers, Secret Seven, Naughtiest Girl, St Clare's etc...
Five Children and It
Heidi
The Secret Garden
The Little Princess
The Borrowers
A Wrinkle In Time
Tom's Midnight Garden
What Katy Did
Little Women
The Railway Children
I Capture The Castle
The Chronicles of Narnia

some which I loved and which have gone down well with my daughters are A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, Moondial by HelenCresswell I think it is, Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer I think, E Nesbit books in general, Enchanted Castle, 5 Children and It etc. Some of the older ones can seem very wordy and one of my daughters has little interest in reading older ones herself but she does enjoy listening to them.

My dd loved this set when she was 10 www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=887134&cm_mmc=Google%20Adwords--PLA--Malory+Towers+Collection+-+12+Books-_--XEBMT&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5t7UBRDaARIsAOreQth5TUV2BLSS_ZSw1lS63dL1UxqNGBso3KXfoODDWx8jJOURlW3rcSsaAohdEALw_wcB

Also twins at St Clare's, and the 'my story' history based books were a big favourite at around this age (www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=548517&cm_mmc=Google%2520Adwords--AdCore%2520Product--MSTR%2520-%2520My%2520Story%2520Collection%2520-%252010%2520Books&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&-_-=My%2520Story%2520Collection%2520-%252010%2520Books&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5t7UBRDaARIsAOreQtjx8eJ9WrYgJlSwrWbyCKWRBAIABePDlCtb95fzE8dIrvHJadeQobIaAupTEALw_wcB)

There was a similar thread just a few days ago - although I’m not sure in which topic .

Anyway, I’d bookmarked this for my own dc and also because I wanted to work my own way through them!

www.mumsnet.com/books/books-to-give-your-10-year-old-self

I absolutely loved Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery at that age. There are at least 3 in the series. Similar to Anne of Green Gables.
Has she read anything by Anthony Horowitz? Worth looking at his books. Alex Rider is the obvious one, but Horowitz has written a lot of great books.

Phantom Tollbooth, Five Children and It, Magician's Nephew, Chocky's Challenge, Anne of GG, Little House on the Prairie. I find my kids need an extra 2 years compared to the ages I read older books, just because there's so much unfamiliar assumed knowledge (just spent an hour explaining the Victorian Sabbath to a 6yo who thought only Muslims prayed...)

DD is currently reading Skellig by David Almond. Her next one in waiting is Holes by Louis Sachar.

She loves RJ Palaci (spelling!?) and particularly enjoyed Wonder which I think is being made into a film soon

Dd is 10.
She loves:
Charlie bone by Jenny nimmo
Crestomanci series by Diana wynne Jones
The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence
Anything by Ross Welford
Books by Emma Carroll...She particularly enjoyed letters from the lighthouse.

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