My daughter is turning 10 in a week and I’m trying to get her some new books she hasn’t read yet and find some things off the beaten path.
She reads way above her grade level, so length is not a concern— the longer the better. She loves fantasy, has read all of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Worst Witch, Sisters Grimm Fairytale Detectives, Morrigan Crow.
Harry Potter and Sisters Grimm are her faves right now. She’s read them multiple times.
She also likes what I think of as “the classics”— Secret Garden, Pippi Longstocking, Wayside School, the Ramona and Fudge books, Mrs Frisby, Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web. She’s read Pippi three or four times now.
She not like Chronicles of Prydain, Diane Wynn Jones or Diane Duane. Gregor the Overlander got too scary in book 3. She’s currently tearing through all the Moomin books, so maybe non-American books? I would love all your recommendations!
by thebrite1
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Has she read Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy? Those are wonderful – and the Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis are too.
Maybe she’d also like a collection of myths and legends – I particularly love slavic mythology.
And how about comics/graphic novels? There are some incredible comics for young readers.
Akata Witch is similar to Harry Potter, but it takes place in Nigeria and the author is Nigerian American.
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley
I loved The Princess and the Goblin and the sequel The Princess and Curdy by George McDonald at that age.
The dark is rising series by Susan Cooper is a great children’s classic.
Some kids love The Lord of the rings too at 10, especially if they like a lot of words.
The snow spider trilogy by Jenny Nimmo is a nice lesser known series because the stories are Welsh, and incorporate old Welsh legends into them.
Watership Down by Richard Adams isn’t as long, but is a classic that’s got plenty going on for kids.