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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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