Recommended books for 10 to 12 year olds

Author	Title	Cover
NM Browne	Warriors of Alavna (series)
Kenneth Oppel	Skybreaker Airborn
Frank Cottrell Boyce	Millions Cosmic
Anthony Horowitz	Point Blanc Skeleton Key
KK Beck	Fake
Eve Garnett	The Children of North End Road
Lewis Carrol	Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass
Dodie Smith	I Capture the Castle
Madeline L'Engle	A Wrinkle in Time
Tolkien	Lord of the Rings
Kipling	Kim The Jungle Book
David Almond	Skellig
Rosemary Sutcliffe	Eagle of the Ninth
Henry Treece	The Queen's Brooch Children's Crusade
Alan Garner	Weirdstone of Brisingamen Moon of Gomrath Owl Service
Leon Garfield	Black Jack
RL Stevenson	Kidnapped
Dumas	Count of Monte Cristo Man in the Iron Mask Three Musketeers
Rider Haggard	Alan Quatermain She Nada the Lily King Solomon's Mines
Malorie Blackman	Noughts & Crosses
William Nicholson	The Wind Singer Firesong Slaves of the Mastery
John Christopher	The Tripods Trilogy The Guardians The Prince in Waiting trilogy
Peter Dickinson	The Weathermonger
Susan Cooper	The Dark is Rising series
Susan Coolidge	What Katy Did
Alcott	Little Women
Thackeray	The Rose & the Ring
Jamilla Gavin	Coram Boy
Herbie Brennan	Faerie Wars

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