Recommended books for 8 to 10 year olds

I personally cannot stand Swallows & Amazons but if your child likes them then this is the age to try. Obviously, the distinctions become blurred at this stage. The recommendations for this age partly due to clarity of language.

Author	Title	Cover
Lemony Snickett	A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
Andrew Lang	All of the colour fairy tale collections
Ian Serrallier	The Silver Sword
Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl series The Supernaturalists The Wish List Airman
Jacqueline Wilson	Secrets April Showers Vicky Angel Tracey Beaker
Russell Hoban	The Mouse & his Child
Anne Fine	Flour Babies The Tulip Touch Mrs. Doubtfire
Rosemary Sutcliff	The Wanderings of Odysseus Black Ships before Troy Beowulf
Philip Pullman	Northern Lights (trilogy) Ruby in the Smoke (trilogy)
Anne Holm	I am David
JK Rowling	Harry Potter (series)
Ursula le Guin	A Wizard of Earthsea (trilogy)
Elizabeth Goudge	Linnets & Valerians The Little White Horse
Kenneth Oppel	Silverwing (series)
Edward Eager	Half Magic Magic by the Lake The Time Garden
E. Nesbit	Five Children & It The Treasure Seekers Wouldbegoods The Phoenix & the Carpet The Amulet The Enchanted Castle The Railway Children
Willans & Searle	Molesworth (series) St Trinians (series)
Hans Christian Andersen	Collected stories
Eva Ibbotson	The Haunting of Hiram Dial a Ghost Not Just a Witch Journey to the River Sea Secret of Platform 13 Monster Mission
EB White	Charlotte's Web Stuart Little
Jack London	Call of the Wild/White Fang
Cynthia Harnett	The Wool Pack
Joan Robinson	When Marnie Was There
Patricia Elliot	The Ice Boy
Michael Morpurgo	The King of Cloud Forest
Captain Marryat	The Children of the New Forest
René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo	Asterix & Obelix
Alan Temperley	The Magician of Samarkand

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