BOOKS for 10 yr old dd and 11 yr old son PLEASE!!

[hullygully]

We will be away for two months in the Summer and both my kids are great readers (no friends/ machines there, you see!). I need suggestions for both of them. They have read the Little House series, Harry Potters, Warriors, Noel Streatfield, Horowitz, a lot of the children's classics. I need long complicated books so they last and partic faves are action spies, and ponies (not Heartland, read those). ANY suggestions? Please? Thanks.

Same problem with dd, difficult to find books with content she can handle at a suitable ability level. That's why she races through them. (There's an opening in the market there.)Ds can cope with a lot stronger stuff IYSWIM.

Ds' reading habits very rarely annoy me but his sniffy approach to preloved classics from our own bookshelves or bought off Abebooks really does hack me off ! It took me months to coax him to try Paul Berna because they are all dh's wizened old late sixties Puffins. And now he loves them.
I always feel comfortable with classics, many of which do provide thought-provoking plots and excellent writing, without the graphic approach that is common in current writers (eg Robert Muchamore, Louis Sachar, Melvin Burgess etc, all great but definitely for over 12s IME)

That's gone straight on MY holiday shopping list thanks porpoise!

Part of the problem with my collection of my childhood books is simply presentation. The typeface is so much smaller, I think they find it intimidating. My dd read all the old Streatfields, Monica Dickens etc because we were up the mountain and there was absolutely nothing else! And she loved them. Both also like the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency btw, and My Family and Other Animals for DS.

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Shameless plug for this book by a new author aka my step BIL!!

Thanks for that madamy
Ds is completely immersed in Percy Jackson, huge hit

Agree with you about the presentation hullygully, the dense typeface does put them off

DS 12 has just been engrossed in one of the Cherub books by Mark Walden.

Oops Cherub are written by Robert Munchmore

Mark Walden writes the HIVE series which ds also likes

The Edge Chronicles and the Roman Mysteries have already been recommended, so I'd add something for action/thriller fans: The Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig. There are I think four or five of them out now for them to get their teeth into and each one is a gripping conspiracy thriller.