Book recommendations for 7 year old

[uonika]

My 7 year old DS (Y2) is a fluent reader and will have two chapter books on the go at once - one he reads to himself and one we read to him. Would love recommendations as I'm running out of ideas. I haven't started him on Harry Potter yet because although I think books 1 and 2 would be fine for him, the books gradually get more adult as you go through the series so I feel like he needs to be a bit older to enjoy them properly. Books he has read or been read and enjoyed include Charlotte's Web, Alice in Wonderland, The Railway Children, The Secret Garden, Tom's Midnight Garden, the Zeus the Mighty series, Beast Quest series, Sasha and the Wolf, Toto the Ninja Cat, The Worst Witch, the Narnia books, all the Roald Dahls.

The Percy Jackson books look good but wasn't sure if he was too young? Not in terms of reading ability but content - don't want the story to go over his head. Would love other recommendations!

The Tom Gates series
The Christmasaurus series
The Marsh Road Mysteries series
The Impossible Boy
Enid Blyton's Enchanted Wood series
The Legend of Frog series

I think Percy Jackson would be ok, I'd say the complexity and scare level across the series is similar to the first couple of Harry Potters.

The Land of Roar series are good.
Percy Jackson might be slightly to old. We are reading them with DD9 and probably wouldn't read them younger but everyone is different.

I work in Y3, and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe has gone down well two years running. There's 7 of them in total if he likes them. I wondered if the kids would like them because they're quite old-fashioned, but they've been hooked both times!

diary of a wimpy kid

How to Train your Dragon

Roman Mysteries are also good.

101 Dalmatians

I would recommend talking to your local librarian if you can - they often have good ideas! Would he like the more graphic novel style? My 7 year old sounds to have a similar reading ability and we’ve struggled for a couple of years to balance fluency with emotional maturity so I sympathise. The graphic novels (such as Dogman, Tom Gates) are less challenging from a reading perspective but at the right emotional level and enjoyable. Also I can recommend magazines as an alternative style - National Geographic is quite good, Phoenix comic if he likes the graphic novels and maybe Aquila?

So wonderful to hear he’s an avid reader.

https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reference/books-for-7-year-olds/

Books2door have just started doing monthly delivery packs worth a browse on there and The Works.

The Magic Treehouse series are an introduction to history.
The Magic School Bus series is great for explaining science topics.

Paddington
Professor Branestawm
Asterix the Gaul series
Tintin books

Anything by Dav Pilkey would be my just turned 8s recommendation.

Yes the literacy level of Dog Man isn't challenging, but he reads and rereads for fun and is the right reading level for his age so I don't care. They're comic book style. Captain Underpants books are chapter books. Also adored and reread.
Same vein to Dogman is Kitty Quest and Bunny vs Monkey. Also 13 Storey Tree House (26, 39, 52... you get the hint).