Books for 10 year old girl

Reality

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:27 pm

I was also an avid reader at that age. My parents bought a set of over 20 condensed classics. I would read them over and over again. As I got older I read the full versions of many if not most of those books.

flower2

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:32 pm

She can read the classics. Obv you will have to decide what has too much romance, but they are definitely more advanced reading. I wouldn't do abridged versions though- she should read the originals.
Also check out the Mensa kids reading lists for 4-6th and 7-8th grade.

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Reality

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:37 pm

flower2 wrote:

She can read the classics. Obv you will have to decide what has too much romance, but they are definitely more advanced reading. I wouldn't do abridged versions though- she should read the originals.

Why not? At 10 I wasn't going to read the entire Three Musketeers. But I loved the story. I had the readers digest condensed series so it was the original language but some unimportant chapters to the story were omitted. In my teens I read the real version.

Reality

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:40 pm

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Peter Pan

Mary Poppins (very different from the movie)

The Wizard of Oz

The Jungle Book

Summer of the Swans

flower2

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:47 pm

Reality wrote:

Because this kid is bored by many books that are age appropriate through middle school/already read them at age 7-8 per OP's posts. So she should either expand her interests as far as genre or challenge herself to read more difficult and/or longer books.
I was very similar at that age (except I loved Fantasy and mysteries so I had a lot more to work with) and the only book I ever started that I couldn't/didn't want to finish was Les Miserables (not that I even looked at it until high school).

Reality

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:54 pm

flower2 wrote:

Lol! I loved Les Miserables! My waterloo was Moby d!ck!!

amother

Chartreuse

Thu, May 13 2021, 8:59 pm

The great brain series by John d Fitzgerald
The redwall series by Brian Jacques
What abt the agatha Christie mysteries? I know she doesn’t like mystery but she might like these with detective hercule poirot I read when I was 11.

librarylady

Thu, May 13 2021, 11:04 pm

librarygirl wrote:

If you're looking for more mature, Lauren work has 3 excellent clean historical fiction books.
Listen to the moon by morpurgo
The mighty miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Mr. Max series by Cynthia Voight
Front desk series by yang.

Just a note that the Front desk series does have some not-so-subtle anti-conservative agenda. The story is really good but I would have liked it better if that wasn't such a huge part of the plot and it wasn't presented so black and white.

I would also try Henry Clark's books: What we found in the sofa and how it saved the world; what we found in the corn maze and how it saved a dragon (there is also another, "the book that proves time travel happens" but it has a significant amount of weirdness including cross-dressing that you might not be interested in) - they are not so well known so maybe she hasn't read them yet. I wouldn't say they are fantasy, more sci-fi.

amother

Slateblue

Fri, May 14 2021, 7:26 am

Eva ibbotson- Journey to the River Sea, the Star of Kazan and Dragonfly Pool ) All her books are great- these are the ones without magic
Margaret Peterson Haddix- her "Among The Hidden" series, Running out of Time (Make sure you only get the kid ones- some of her teen books are quite dark)
The Mixed-up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiller
The Westing Game
The Septimus Heap series and accompanying TodHunter Moon series by Angie Sage (These do have magic, but it's much more of an aside rather than a plotline)

theoneandonly

Fri, May 14 2021, 8:22 am

Redwall series by Brian Jacques
Animorphs series by k a Applegate
Most of the books by Avi
Walk two moons, I don't remember the author
The westing game
A series of unfortunate events
10 yo ds just started the secret series and loves it but I never read it

librarygirl

Fri, May 14 2021, 8:29 am

amother [ Slateblue ] wrote:

Yes! The ibbitson books are great!!

Disagree with septimus heap if she doesn't like fantasy.

librarygirl

Fri, May 14 2021, 8:31 am

librarylady wrote:

If by anti-conservative you mean pro immigration, yes. I don't think anything clashes with Torah values.

Reality

Fri, May 14 2021, 12:29 pm

Another really good series is the Tillerman Cycle. It's 7 books by Cynthia Voigt. The first book is called Homecoming.

I didn't recommend before because I thought it might be a drop mature for OP's daughter thematically. But if others are enjoying the recommendations as well....