10 Year Old Fav's

[Lux Et Veritas Academy]

What are your favorite books for a 10 year old/ 4th grader

[ArwenA]

I've got a 9yo (4th grade) girl who loves, love, LOVES to read. She has loads of favourite books and it would take a very long time to list them all. Is there anything specific you're looking for?

[Elinor Everywhere]

Boy or girl?

My 10yodd loves to read Inkheart series, Warrior series, Horrible Science, the Hobbit (she's tried but not yet ready to read LOTR), and many more. She always has 2-3 books going at once.

What level is your dc reading? What interests? Does s/he prefer fiction or nonfiction?

[Mom2jnb]

Hi,

My son loves Where the Red Fern Grows, The Shakespears Stealer, Adam of the Road, and our favorite of this year was The Shadow Spinner.

He too enjoys the Inkheart series.

Alison

[Lorna]

Our son (10) likes: anything by Elizabeth Enright; the 'Doctor Doolittle' books by Hugh Lofting; 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens; Roald Dahl books; all the Moomin books by Tove Janson, 'The Little Prince' and a series of Robin Hood adventures (all old Ladybird books). He also enjoys the Dorling Kindersley science encyclopedia and electronics books (although I have found it difficult to find good ones).

[Melora in NC]

Anything by Roald Dahl, The Great Brain series (Fitzgerald), Wayside School series (Sachar), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing series, Harry Potter. (These are favorites of 9 yr old ds.)

[claire up north]

I have to recommend Year of the Dog by Grace Lin. My son loved it, even though the main character is a girl!

[Pongo]

Phantom Toolbooth, Everything on a Waffle, Poppy, Poppy and Rye, The Barn, Whittington, A Bear Named Trouble, Miracles on Maple Hill, Forty Acres and Mabya a Mule, Family Under the Bridge are a few I can think of.

[Lori D.]

REAL LIFE
- The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill)
- Henry Huggins (series) (McCleary)


FANTASY
- Pippi Longstockings; Pippi in the South Seas (Astrid)
- Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz (Baum) -- lively sequels; skip Wizard of Oz (dull/long)
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series (Betty MacDonald)
- Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
- Warriors series (Hunter)
- Half Magic; Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle; Time Garden; Seven Day Magic (Eager)
- The Father Christmas Letters (Tolkien)
- The Borrowers (series) (Norton)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fleming)
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Great Glass Elevator (Dahl)


ANIMALS (talking)
- Charlotte's Web; Trumpet of the Swan (White)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle (McCleary)
- Ben and I (Lawson)
- The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, Miss Bianca in the Orient (Sharpe)
- Basil of Baker Street (Titus)


FUN TALL TALE
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Dalgliesh)
- The Whipping Boy (Fleischman)
- McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm (Fleischman)
- Adventures of TinTin (Herge)
- By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman)
- Holes (Sachar)


HISTORY / HISTORICAL FICTION - U.S.
- Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz)
- What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz)
- And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz)
- Pedro's Journal (Conrad) -- Columbus' voyage
- Skippack School (de Angeli) -- Colonial U.S.
- The Matchlock Gun (Edmonds) -- Colonial US
- The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial US
- Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) --American Revolution - true story
- Sarah Plain and Tall; Skylark; Caleb's Story (MacLachlan) -- US - pioneer times
- Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) -- pioneer times US
- The Sign of the Beaver (Speare) -- Colonial US/Native American



HISTORY / HISTORICAL FICTION - WORLD
- Detectives in Togas; Mystery of the Roman Ransom (Winterfeld) -- Ancient Rome
- Roman Mysteries series
- Brendan the Navigator (Fritz)
- A Single Shard (Park) -- 1100s Korea
- The Kite Fighters (Park) -- 1400s Korea
- The Sword in the Tree (Bulla) -- Medieval England
- The Door in the Wall (de Angeli) -- Medieval England
- Twenty and Ten (Bishop) -- WWII French children hide Jewish children
- The Little Riders (Shemin) -- WWII occupied Europe
- Number the Stars (Lenski)-- WWII Dutch girl helps her Jewish friend


BIOGRAPHY
- The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (Davidson)
- Helen Keller (Davidson)
- Louis Braille (Davidson)
- Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman (Henry) -- inventor of steam engine as a boy
- Om-Kas-Toe (Thomasa)
- Naya Nuki: The Shoshone Girl Who Ran (Thomasa)
- Behind Rebel Lines (Reit) -- teen girl disguised as a boy / Union spy in Civil War

[Hoggirl]

The Redwall Series (Brian Jacques). He also enjoyed the Mysterious Benedict Society.
Cynthia