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Hi everyone, I’m looking for suggestions, short books for a 10 year old boy please.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for suggestions, short books for a 10 year old boy please.

Abigail #recommend

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Rosanna

Harry Potter is good and their not that long (at least to me), diary of a whimpy kid books are popular

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AbigailQuestion author

Diary of a Wimpy Kid sounds great, thanks.

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Sean

Lol the first few harey potter were shorter then it got like to 700 pages o thought

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Rosanna

I think they did get longer. But I believe their age range was like starting at 10 or so.

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Sean

Yes they were

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Heather

Who was- great nonfiction series

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AbigailQuestion author

I’ll check it out, thanks

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Jana

How about old school—-The Hardy boys books

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AbigailQuestion author

I’ll check it, thanks, the problem is, he only reads in Spanish and I don’t know if these books are available in Spanish.

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Jana

@Abigail I’m not sure either

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AbigailQuestion author

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll definitely look it up.

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Jana

@Abigail I did google it and there are Hardy boys books in spanish

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AbigailQuestion author

@Jana amazing, thank you ?

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Selina

My 10 year old loved the book “Wonder”

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AbigailQuestion author

Thanks, I actually have that book on my TBR

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Aguilar

My daughter started the Harry Potter series when she was 10. We read de first book together and she fell in love with it.

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AbigailQuestion author

I love Harry Potter but it might not be his thing, thanks for the suggestion anyway, I’m feeling like reading them again ?

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Zoey

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Treehouse series, Ahn Do Weirdo series, The Bad Guys series, anything by David Walliams…

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AbigailQuestion author

I’m making a list, thanks

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Claudia

Erin Hunter’s Warriors series

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Melva

Magic Tree house adventures

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Jon

Rush Revere set.

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Eric

ABC Mysteries

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Hoogeveen

Where the red fern grows

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Lela

What about the Choose your own Adventure series?

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AbigailQuestion author

Interesting

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Beth

I loved those books when I was little (and I still have a bunch I read now when I want a quick thing lol)

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AbigailQuestion author

Thanks @Beth

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Karen

Candy by Kevin Brooks. He’s an English author but I’m sure you can find his books on Amazon.

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Natasha

The spiderwick chronicles

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Fay

Have you thought of the horrible histories series?

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Electra

Spiderwick Chronicles if he likes magic.

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Ashlie

Captain underpants there a few of them my 12 year old boy loves them

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Beverley

Don’t know about short but James Patterson and David Baldacci have series that are written for youngsters. Google them perhaps. Enjoy.??

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Meaghan

Ice Wolevs by Amie Kaufman, the Warriors series

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Misty

Origami Yoda series, perhaps. 🙂

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Megan

My son loves goosebumps

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Miranda

Fablehaven is a bit longer but easy read and characters are about the right age

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Dan

The phantom tollboth

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Cynthia

John Grisham’s Theodore Boone series

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Traci

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper.

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Elizabeth

Holes

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Mary

Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Nancy

Bad kitty

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Cheryl

You will have to find them from used bookstores but the choose your own adventure books are great for kids!

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Ann

Yep– they love those.

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John

Toby Tyler, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys,

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Robert

Maybe Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, (after you read it first, some scenes may be too scary) or the Lemony Snicket series.

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Rosella

Hoot

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Ann

The dork diary’s

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Ann

He will love them. He can relate to them. Best sellers for a guy hid age.

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Kashif

Under the howthrone tree children of famine

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Kashif

Black beauty

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Ann

The old “goosebumps ” books.

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Ann

Yep..

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Ash

Goosebumps 😉

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Ash

Spiderwick Chronicles, series of unfortunate events, the secrets of droon series, Harry potter

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Star

Guardians of ga’houl, magic treehouse, box car children,

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Mikey

The storm keepers island is great! It’s Harry Potter crosses with Michael Morpurgo ?

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Josie

My son loves the Storey Treehouse books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates

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Tabitha

Anything by Adam Wallace. http://www.adam-wallace-books.com/

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Richie

Goosebumps, I have ,Pirates of the Carribean,

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Stacie

Super Fudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, How To Eat Fried Worms. Wow I am showing my age lol oh and Holes and Shiloh are good. I had to read them for a children’s lit class in college.

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Nirvan

J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”
The Andrew Lang edited “The Blue Fairy Book”.
Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”
Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden”
Arthur Conan Doyle’s various Sherlock Holmes stories & novels
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”
Jack London’s “White Fang” & “The Call of the Wild”
A. E. van Vogt’s “Slan”
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars”

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Nirvan

Start him off with Jack London and van Vogt and the Andrew Lang edited compilation of fairytales.

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Antoinette

Any of the Wimpy Kids books

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Chippy

Did any one say Roald Dahl?

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Latanya

Series of Unfortunate Events, Geronimo Stilton chapter books, the Boxcar Children mystery books

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Wayne

Enid Blyton

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Harriet

I’ll bet he’d like Lemony Snickett’s books.

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LaVonne

“Soup” by Robert Newton Peck – if you can find them!

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