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

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

AbigailQuestion author

Diary of a Wimpy Kid sounds great, thanks.

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

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

Yes they were

Who was- great nonfiction series

AbigailQuestion author

I’ll check it out, thanks

How about old school—-The Hardy boys books

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.

Abigail I’m not sure either

AbigailQuestion author

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

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

AbigailQuestion author

Jana amazing, thank you ?

My 10 year old loved the book “Wonder”

AbigailQuestion author

Thanks, I actually have that book on my TBR

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

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 ?

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

AbigailQuestion author

I’m making a list, thanks

Erin Hunter’s Warriors series

Magic Tree house adventures

Rush Revere set.

ABC Mysteries

Where the red fern grows

What about the Choose your own Adventure series?

AbigailQuestion author

Interesting

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

AbigailQuestion author

Thanks Beth

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

The spiderwick chronicles

Have you thought of the horrible histories series?

Spiderwick Chronicles if he likes magic.

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

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

Ice Wolevs by Amie Kaufman, the Warriors series

Origami Yoda series, perhaps. 🙂

My son loves goosebumps

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

The phantom tollboth

John Grisham’s Theodore Boone series

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper.

Holes

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Bad kitty

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

Yep– they love those.

Toby Tyler, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys,

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

Hoot

The dork diary’s

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

Under the howthrone tree children of famine

Black beauty

The old “goosebumps ” books.

Yep..

Goosebumps 😉

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

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

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

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

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

Goosebumps, I have ,Pirates of the Carribean,

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.

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”

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

Any of the Wimpy Kids books

Did any one say Roald Dahl?

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

Enid Blyton

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

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

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