Books for very able 10 year old reader

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DD is just 10 and gets through a book a day. I need more ideas!

she enjoys books about relationships and people and adventure I guess but tends to prefer ‘real life scenarios’ rather than fantasy. She also really likes series of books.

Authors she likes and has read:

Adam kay
sophie Mackenzie
gordon Korman
katie kirby
tom fletcher
jk Rowling (read them all)
Lauren st john
david walliams
cath howe
treehouse series
Elly Griffiths
michael Morpurgo (doesn’t love these)
onjali Rauf

shes obviously read and in many cases re read all of these. Can anyone give my any ideas? She has a sibling who is almost 4 years older and keeps taking her books which are not that appropriate so I need ideas of authors.

Thank you

PG Wodehouse?

Has she read a good selection of ‘classic’ children’s books? So Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan etc. vocab can be more challenging (archaic was the term DS1’s teacher used) but that’s no bad thing.

Robin Stevens seems a good next step, my DDs class (well the handful of keen girl readers) devoured them at 10.

Or the Enola Holmes series.

Ross Welford. 1000 year old boy is great. Love all his novels

None of those books are up to much really in terms of quality. I’d second the recommendation for classic children’s books. Look at the lists of best children’s books on Google eg the BBC one. There are lots of ideas there.

Oh and how to train your dragon series / other series by same author

Holes.
Hatchet.
Percy Jackson series

Anything by MG Leonard is great.

The Lottie Brooks books by Kate Kirby sound right up her street.
My 9yr old is a bookworm and is devouring the Percy Jackson series

Morrigan Crow series (by Jessica Townsend)
Percy Jackson series
Narnia

Jane Eyre, Secret Garden, Little Women, Black Beauty

Also
Skellig
Boy at the back of the class
How I became a dog called midnight
House with the chicken legs
Castle of tangled magic

E Nesbit / Anne of Green Gables series - the language and sentence structures are more challenging.

Noel Stretfield.

I was a precocious reader and enjoyed Watership Down, and The Duncton Wood Chronicles. Time to move to longer adult classics - maybe some sci fi or longer fantasy novels? Depends what genre might grab their attention. The

Arthur Ransome.

The problem with very able but young readers is that their understanding doesn't match their reading ability. I had Jane Eyre from the school library when I was about eleven - I think it was recommended because of the section with Jane as a child - but a lot of it was beyond me.

That said, what about the early chapters of Great Expectations, and other Dickens featuring child characters?

Oh, absolutely yes to Anne of Green Gables!

Also The Little House on the Prairie books.

Caroline Lawrence Roman mysteries? I love the classics here, Anne of Green Gables would be amazing, imagine reading it for the first time!! Mine also loved the hobbit by this point too...

Just William, Famous Five, Phillip Pullmans northern lights series, professor Branestawm - books of short funny stories about an eccentric inventor, there are some young James Bond books about his time at boarding school. Would Jaqueline Wilson books be not challenging enough? Ooh the queens nose!

I'd also recommend more classics.
Swallows and Amazons
Ballet shoes series
Little Women
Just William

A series of unfortunate events is good. And there's a series of historical fiction called 'my story' that my dd absolutely loved.

E Nesbit can be read on more than one level - some of the humour I only got when reading as an adult.

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - semi autobiographical. The next two in the trilogy are not suitable for a 10yo, however; they deal with adult themes as they follow the protagonist 'Anna' through adolescence and adulthood.

Eva Ibbotson wrote some novels aimed at 10-12 yos. Star of Kazan, The Dragonfly Pool, Journey to the River Sea.

I’m following for my 8 yr old with a reading age of 13. She recently enjoyed Northern Light series.

Yes to Holes! (Thanks pp) And the rest of Louis Sachar’s novels!

I was a voracious reader as a child, I hope you're members of the library?

It sounds like she would like Jacqueline Wilson

By the way need to take care not to read too much. It can lead to short sightedness. Take them to an optician to test eyes. There are lenses that slow down shortsightedness if it starts.