Recommended books for boys between 7 and 8 years old

Author	Title
Lemony Snickett	A Series of Unfortunate Events vols 1-9
Eric Pringle	Big George BG & the 7th Knight
Enid Blyton	The Castle of Adventure (series) The Island of Adventure (series)
Anne Fine	How to Write Really Badly Angel of Nitshill Rd A Sudden Glow of Glittering Smoke (series)
Dodie Smith	101 Dalmatians
Margery Sharp	The Rescuers
Norton Juster	The Phantom Tollbooth
TH White	The Sword in the Stone
Mary Norton	Bedknobs & Broomsticks
L'Engle	A Wrinkle in Time (8+)
Edward Eager	Half Magic Magic by the Lake Knight's Castle
Louis Sachar	Holes
Diana Wynne Jones	Power of Three
Lucy M. Boston	The Children of Green Knowe (series)
Geoffrey Trease	A Crown of Violet (esp good for ancient Greece) Cue for Treason
Joan Aiken	A Harp of Fishbones Black Hearts in Battersea
Noel Langley	The Land of Green Ginger
George Macdonald	The Princess and the Goblins
Gillian Cross	The Demon Headmaster (series)
Tolkien	Farmer Giles of Ham The Hobbit
K. Graham	The Wind in the Willows
John Masefield	The Midnight Folk
Jane Langley	The Diamond in the Window
Philip Pullman	The Firework Maker's Daughter Northern Lights
Catherine Fisher	The Snow-Walker's Son (trilogy esp good for Vikings)
AA Milne	Once on a Time
PL Travers	Mary Poppins (series)
Eric Linklater	The Wind on the Moon The Pirates in the deep green Sea
Francesca Simon	Helping Hercules (esp for Ancient Greece)
CS Lewis	Narnia series (Start with The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe then The Horse & his Boy then The Magician's Nephew)
Philippa Pearce	A Dog so Small
Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl Artemis & the Arctic Adventure
Herge	And don't forget Tintin....

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