'Must read' books for year 10 year old

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My dd is in Y5 and loves reading. She can sometimes be a bit stuck in her ways and would really benefit form reading a broader range of books and stories. Our school has no recommended reading list.

Recently she read and loved

• The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
• Carlie Sorosiak books
• The Explorer Rundell
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• The boy at the back of the class

What books gems would you recommend to her that she might enjoy and that could also help her broaden her view of the world?

At the age DD enjoyed:

Anne of Green Gables
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lady Grace Mysteries
Murder Most Unladylike
Michael Morpurgo

If she enjoyed When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, you could try The Silver Sword and Carrie's War.

At that age I loved Elizabeth Goudge's A Little White Horse!

My 10 year old DD, also year 5, is an avid reader. Things she has enjoyed in the last year or so:

Murder Most Unladylike series - Robin Stevens
Ministry of Unladylike activities - Robin Stevens
Scarlett & Ivy series - Sophie Cleverly
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Ruby Redfort series - Lauren Child
Sinclair Mysteries - Katherine Woodfine
Adventures on Trains series - MG Leonard
The Eleventh Orphan series - Joan Lingard
Harry Potter series
Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
The Good Thieves - Katherine Rundell
All the historical novels by A.M Howells

My 10 year old has just finished “Goodnight Mr Tom” which she really enjoyed. She’s now reading “The Boy In The Tower” and next on her list is “Swallows and Amazons”.

She also really enjoyed the Scarlett & Ivy, the Enid Blyton “St Clare’s” and “A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair”.

We try and mix up older titles my husband and I both enjoyed as well as newer writing. We were both avid readers and handily kept our favourites from childhood.

Journey to the River Sea
Goodnight Mr Tom

My DD is 9 and very similar and I’m an English teacher. Would recommend the following:

Murder Most Unladylike series
Anything by Lauren St John - animal related mystery books
Katherine Rundell - Rooftoppers etc
Clare Balding’s ‘Racehorse’ books
Podkin One-Ear series
Cressida Cowell -Wizards of Once series
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea
Louis Sachar

Dork Diaries is hugely popular

The Impossible Boy

The House with Chicken Legs

Coraline

Harry Potter

Percy Jackson

The Marsh Road Mysteries series

The Tiffany Aching Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (Wee Free Men, Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown)

October october Is excellent and A f harrold is an excellent author especially The afterwards

The Shark Caller plus the song walker by Zillah Bethell. Beautiful stories. Lesley Parr is another great author and Sophie Anderson who wrote The house with chicken legs plus others.

At that age I enjoyed two pence to cross the Mersey, Anne of green gables and Enid blyton books

My Side Of The Mountain
Tuppence To Cross The Mersey
A Little Princess

The Time and Space of Uncle Albert

House with Chicken Legs - Sophie Anderson
The Girl Who Speaks Bear - Sophie Anderson
Wolf Wilder - Katherine Rundell
Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
Good Thieves - Katherine Rundell
Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell

Secrets of a sun king by Emma Carroll