Any recommendations of books for a 10/11 year old boy?

[LittleFluffyMoo]

Just that really! DS1 loves reading and will read anything, but I'd love some recommendations for books for him.

We've done all the Harry Potter series, the Artemis Fowl books, all the Percy Jackson books and all the more recent ones by the same author. He also loved the Diamond Brothers series and some of the Michael Morpurgo books but didn't really get into the Narnia series, much to my dismay. Has read ridiculous numbers of minecraft books because he can get them on his kindle, and other bits and pieces I can't remember.

I guess he likes funny/adventure books, and all the better if they're part of a series because then he doesn't have to look around for any for a while!

Any ideas/suggestions would be very welcome :)

TIA

My 11 year old (y7) is reading The 'Bodyguard' series (Hostage, Ransom & Ambush) by Chris Bradford. He read the first in 2 days so guess he likes them. I suspect not as highbrow as some of the other books listed on the thread but he says exciting and great fun!

Prior to this he read 'Leviathan' and 'Behemoth' by Scott Westerfeld. Also the first three Adrian Mole diaries.

Other books read this year include 'Animal Farm' 'Treasure Island' & 'Eragon'.

Non fiction, he's read a couple of cyclist's biographies.

Northern Lights - (trilogy) DD is the same age and really enjoyed it, but would work equally well for boys (in fact DS (13) had just started the first one).
DS really enjoyed Alex Rider and the Young James Bond books.
Also Agatha Christie - Poirot stories
The Just William books are fun.

Ds1 keeps nagging me to let me read Adrian Mole. I'd told him all about the bit where Adrian gets a model aeroplane stuck to his nose while trying to sniff glue. Then I wondered whether such plots would be suitable for a 10-11 year old boy! I thought maybe he ought to be closer to Adrian Mole's age when he reads it. He definitely wouldn't understand the infatuation with Pandora.

Patrick Ness Chaos Trilogy ( the Knife of Never Letting Go...)
The Gone series Michael Grant
My sister lives on the mantlepiece - Annabel Pitcher
A monster calls - Patrick Ness
Ketchup Clouds - Annabel Pitcher
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

rabbit We had some very interesting discussions about Pandora!

My DS is y7 - 12 in August - and he was fine with the subject matter in the first 3 books. Most upset about the political party that advocated enforced repatriation! He is too young for book 4 on so has not read them.

10 is too young for all of them, I think.

I'll let him read Adrian Mole after he's had a couple of terms at secondary school, then, notinminutenow. He's still last term of year 6 at the moment and groans when there are kissing bits in films!

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Really? Kids are weird aren't they? :o

My DSs enjoyed the Cherub series by Michael Muchamore

There's a nice Usborne Classics The Canterbury Tales (retold in comprehensible, modern English...), though, which makes a fun read for young children!

Probably younger than 10-11, though.

We like Eoin Colfer over here, alongside most of the previous recommendations.

The Secret of Ben Kingdom Series by Andrew Beasley
Wild Boy (2 books) by Rob Lloyd Jones
If he likes horror, Cirque de a Freak and Demonata series by Darren Shan.
Powder Monkey by Paul Dowdeswell
The Executioner's Daughter and The River Daughter by Jane Hardstaff
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

Warp Series by Eoin Colfer

has anyone said Wolf Brother yet? I
Ds2 (age 11) loves it
ds1 loved alex rider at that age

The Phantom Tollbooth, and the Mortal Engines series were hits in our house.

Robert Muchamore's Cherub series. DS1 got into it last year when he was in year 5 because only year 6s were allowed to take them out of the library. He's still consuming them and now DS2 has started reading them too. They are totally not suitable for a not-quite-9-year-old but I am just happy he is reading! There was a really good list doing the rounds on social media a short while ago. I'll see if I can dig it out.

19 books to read if you loved the Harry Potter series (courtesy of Buzzfeed).

TheBankOfMum, your Ds has read Machiavelli?!! Italian political strategy from 500 years ago? Wow!

The silver sword
Pig heart boy - malorie Blackman
Both big hits with my DS

Can anyone recommend any audiobooks available to download on iTunes? Finding it difficult to navigate and find decent teenage or pre-teen audio books on iTunes!

Wolf brother, artemis fowl and insignia are all available on audible, and can be transferred onto ipods.

Harry Potter can also be put on ipod using the pottermore shop.

Same age DS here who's read all the series you mention OP, and more. He did enjoy Narnia but not as much as I did at his age and then really enjoyed The Hobbit and is now reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy (currently on the last one and can't wait to see the movies).

He's also reding "the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with his Dad. Loving it, but not sure he'd "get" it all by himself - bit advanced for 10/11 I think.

Before he read these he devoured the Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo - definitely try these!

Anything by Diana Wynne Jones - genius!

You may like to try Enid Blyton too - famous five, secret seven. DS didn't quite devour them the same way but found them enjoyable.

Do try Astrid Lindgren: Mio's Kingdom, Brothers Lionheart, Ronja the Robber's Daughter.

To be honest, I'm rather shocked by some of the suggestions on here (even though I was a very precocious reader myself). Hunger Games, Divergent series, Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Fault in our Stars, Never Let Me Go (or the other fabulous books by Kazuo Ishiguro), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest (incidentally one of my favourite books if all time) are fantastic books and very important works, but NOT suitable pre-teen literature in my world. But then I wouldn't let my 10-year-old read/watch GoT (which I personally love, having read all of them) or play Grand Theft Auto (which I wouldn't allow over our threshhold) either. Maybe I'm in a minority, but if so, very happy to be in one.

Don'tWorry -- I'm in your minority!!

I'm a firm believer that childhood is short and should be enjoyed in thought, word and deed! ie children should be encouraged and allowed to enjoy things books, games, films, etc designed for children with themes appropriate for children. When they're teenagers, they can enjoy things with teenage themes and when they're adults they can enjoy adult things -- and.... when they have children they can once again vicariously enjoy the huge wealth of creativity, fun and imagination in the world of children's books!! I just don't understand why many adults want to encourage children to grow-up so quickly!

Thank you Cherokee, wish there was a "like" button for your post!

To be honest, DS himself would HATE those books (although I hope he'll love most of them when he's ready). And I can assure you he's a very mature 10-year-old with very broad interests, top tier in the country for maths (Primary Maths Challenge final round medal), among the top of his year in all other subjects, sociable with very solid friendships. But he's only 10 (almost 11) and I'm so glad he wants to still be a child!!!

There is just no way that Hunger Games is appropriate for any 10-year-old. None. A very mature 12-year-old girl maybe, but not a 10/11-year old boy.

As for the other books I listed, they're typically high school reading material for a reason. Sure, a younger child may be ABLE to read them (a boy in DS' class had 50 Shades of Grey confiscated in year 3, supposedly he got it from Mum's bedside table) but that doesn't mean it's appropriate.

I'm that anyone would recommend A View From The Bridge as suitable for a 10 year old. It's about a man's unnatural obsession with his niece, includes an aggressive kiss (uncle to niece) and an attack on a man's assumed sexuality, not to mention a murder. Also, it's a play - written to be watched, not read. I think that list is ridiculous and pretentious.