Does anyone have any recommendations for books for 10-12 year olds that are complex but do not have mature themes/sex/violence/suicide?
Does anyone have any recommendations for books for 10-12 year olds that are complex but do not have mature themes/sex/violence/suicide?
Anything by rick riordan.. i love his books
Harry Potter, Percy Jackson
https://wordsmatterpublishing.com/chronicles-of-cypuric/
Written by a 13 year old
The Land of Stories!
T.A. Barron’s the Lost years of Merlin saga or The Tree of Avalon series.
Spiderwick Chronicles and the Pendragon series. (Pendragon I will warn is a little dark at times but it never goes over the line)
The Magical Awakening series
https://www.cassandraclare.com/series/the-magisterium-series/
@Jennifer I feel like this series gets extremely dark tbh
@LR this is my 11 year olds absolute favorite series.
@Jennifer have you read them also? I’ve read the first 4 and man do they get dark
@LR I always read the books my son reads. He finds enjoyment out of who can read it faster…sometimes I let him win ?
This is a series a step below the shadow hunters series, it’s written more towards younger audiences and doesn’t have as much teen content in it as Clare’s other books.
To ME it’s not real dark, he reads very advanced (think Fahrenheit 451, flowers for algernon or say Tolkien, Jules Verne or Anne mccaffrey) and this series falls in his reading level but doesn’t HVe the mature content as MANY of the books his level. I mean there’s no way my 11 year old has the maturity level for McCaffreys romance, but then again some of my favorite authors are real detailed so maybe I’m skewed?
I do see other people have suggested this series as well.
As long as everyone is comfortable! I don’t think my ten year old would do well with all the dark themes in Magisterium but I really enjoyed the series
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
The False Prince trilogy by Jennifer A Nielsen.
@Erin love this series!
Septimus heap
John flannigan
Ranger’s apprentice
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patrica C Wrede
Chronicles of Narnia
Enid Blyton books
Nevermoore series
Max Einstein by James Patterson
Phyllis Wong series by Geoffrey McSkimming.
The Princess Bride
Jane Doe series by Jeremy Lachlan (only book 1 out so far)
Rangers Apprentice, Percy Jackson, and Skullduggery Pleasant (some violence, but it’s not detailed). Both middle grade, no mature content and fantastic to read.
Land of Stories. Series’s gets more complex each book. No sex or suicide. Very very mild violence but later in the series but not a lot. It is set in the land of the different fairytales.
Sabriel (The Abhorsen series by garth nix), inkheart by cornelia funke, the Gregor series, lunar chronicles maybe? Definitely spiderwick, artemus fowl, magyk,
The Inheritance cycle is a good one, also anything by Rick Riordan. Wolves of the Beyond is another suggestion i would give
@Tamika the inheritance cycle was very violent…
@Heather i dont see a diffrence between eragon shoving a sword into a creepy raz’zac then percy shoving his sword into a gorgon. How is inheritance bad but you dont seem to mind Rick letting his same aged kids doing the same exact thing
The Belgaried series by David Eddings. Also The Ruby Knight, The diamond throne and the sapphire rose ( depending if they like knights this series is excellent)
Nevermore
The Dalemark books by Diane Wynne Jones discusses political intrigue without all that stuff.
The False Prince is the first book in the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer Nielsen. It’s middle grade and appropriate, and I have a literally never recommended it to anyone that didn’t love it. It’s an amazing, complex book with a super likable main character who keeps you as the reader on your toes
I second rangers apprentice by John Flanagan, or the Redwall series bij Brian Jacques.
Terry Pratchetts Tiffany Aching series, starting with Wee Free Men
Chris Crutcher
A series of Unfortunate Events.
Fable haven!!!!!
Percy Jackson
Heartland Harry Potter
I suggest the Freiyon Fables Trilogy. The first is called ‘A Tail To Remember.
Ally Carter Books
Percy Jackson series
Knife by r j Anderson.
Road dahl books
All the books by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson Series
Heroes of Olympus
The Kane Chronicles
Magnus Chase series
The Pendragon books
Tamora Pierce – several quartets – all in the same world/country, Tortall
“Song of the Lioness” – Alanna switches places with her twin and pretends to be a boy to become a knight.
“The Immortals” – Diane, an orphan who can speak to animals and learns to control her magic and do a LOT more than that
“Protector of the Small” – Keladry, the first girl who openly tries to become a knight since Alanna was revealed as a woman after she was knighted, and the next king (who happened to be her friend and her own ‘knight-master’ decreed that girls could try for knighthood.
Virals series by Kathy Reiches.
Lockwood and Co series
and the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
Alcatraz Vs the Evil Librarians series and The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman and his Sally Lockhart series too
Tamora Pierce and Diana Wynne Jones.
@Guardians mentions child abuse and has some violence, but not explicit. I would be happy to send you a free ebook copy of book 1, so you could check it out
Rangers Apprentice series by John Flanagan.
The chronicles of Narnia
Percy Jackson series
My fav books 🙂 – personally I’m obsessed with Francis Hardinge, “The Lie Tree” has done very well – first YA to win the Costa since Pullman’s Amber Spyglass – but my favourite is the rather polarising “Verdigris Deep” (Dark rich modern fairytale – called Well Witched in US)
13 Treasures. Can’t recall the author.
THe LIe Tree, Sal and Gabe Break the universe, Percy Jackson, Maximum Ride, among others.
Skulduggery pleasant
Percy Jackson
My daughter who is 10 loves the Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter, she even got her classmates reading them!
@Vicki warrior cats is what got my now 16 year old addicted to reading. She now writes her own fan fiction and has quite a following ? it’s crazy what that series has created in our children!
My daughter writes fan fiction too and even draws her own characters and comics! ?
I love the Lunar Chronicles series and heartless by Melissa Meyer, the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the soulmated series by Shaila Patel (this one is my favorite) Genesis Girl by Jennifer Bardsley, if they like mermaids try Mer Chronicles by Tobie Easton, The Untamed series by Madeline Dyer…. to name a few lol
Percy Jackson Series
Septimus Heap Series
Artemis Fowl
Dark is Rising
Eragon
Magesterium Iron trials
Spooks Apprentice
Rangers Apprentice
School for Good and Evil
Chronicles of Narnia
The Dark Materials!
Land Of Stories by Shannon Messenger.
Dawn of Wonder. The Last Unicorn. I’m pretty sure I read all David Eddings stuff at around 11 or 12 and there was nothing too mature.
Crowns of Croswald by D.E.Night
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni
The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix
Rowan of Rin or Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda
Pendragon series by DJ Machale. I read them in middle school.
Redwall by Brian Jacques might work well.
Percy Jackson
Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband by John Flanagan
Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter
Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs.
E.Nesbit, Edward Edgar and Lloyd Alexander are classic fantasy authors
TAMORA PIERCE!!!
Great question bc my son is 12 and loves to read! I’m stealing these answers! ?
Warriors by Erin Hunter
Warriors by Erin Hunter, Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, Harry Potter of course!!
I haven’t read them myself but The Percy Jackson series or Harry Potter!
Oooohhhh!!!
The Magesterium series by Holly Black and Cadsandra Clare!! I LOVED them! They were seriously so good.
Harry Potter
Lunar Chronicles
Lockwood and co
Alanna, Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce. Finshing School series by Gail Carriger.
Gregor the overlander series
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Hmmm. Violence is a broad category. If you mean gore or excessive violence, I recommend the Avatar comic series bound as a book – great life lessons and my kids love them.
My kids really like Wings of Fire, Percy Jackson, and Red Pyramid
So you want to be a wizard. Sisters Grimm
Dragon School by Sarah K L Wilson
Anything by Rick Riordan (especially his newer series: Heroes of Olympus, Trials of Apollo, Magnus Chase)
Series of Unfortunate Events
@Jessica ^ recommend… Very complex and intriguing
Diary of a wimpy kid and dork diaries
Horrid henry
Witch and wizard series, Percy Jackson, maximum ride series,
Harry potter
Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The iron trial, Guardians of Ga’hoole
Any book by Rick Riordan
Children who have read Harry Potter have been proven to be smarter by some studies so ahahah
I know this isn’t fantasy, but good is good:
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It’s just terrific. Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy is excellent, too, and my daughter is always quick to say, “It’s not about a froufy kind of princess at ALL.”
Fabelhaven by Brandon mull at least as far as I’ve read with my daughter doesnt have any
The Books of Beginning by John Stephens
The Alora Chronicles
Rangers Apprentice Series!!
Spiderwick
Silverwing! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857920.Silverwing
Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson
If I remember please correct if I’m wrong maximum ride?
Weave a circle round 🙂 great book
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl is a great read with nothing mature rated in it. The age rating is for around 12 year olds and it’s a good read no matter your age. I’m 17 and thoroughly enjoyed it
The girl who drank the moon
Andre Norton has some books for younger children. They are not a series. Dragon Magic, Fur Magic, Lavender Green Magic, Octagon Magic, Red Hart Inn Magic are a few of the titles
Percy Jackson
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. It’s so good even an adult can enjoy it.