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He's loved my side of the mountain, call of the wild, island of the blue Dolphins etc.

 

He also reads the bear Grylls survival type novels etc. I don't mind him reading some of this type of stuff but I'd like to make sure we mix it up with some better quality stuff as well. He's not really into anything fantasy; more survival and adventure type stories.

 

What did your ten year olds love?

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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) -- a big hit with DSs here at age 10; a sort of Dickens-like tale, with escaping from wolves

The Twenty-One Balloons (duBois) -- sort of Jules Verne like 19th century adventure with inventions

 

Realistic Survival/Shipwreck Adventure

- sequels to My Side of the Mountain (George)

- The Cay (Taylor)

- The Black Stallion (Farley)

- Call it Courage (Sperry)

 

Realistic Adventure with Animals

- Rascal (North)

- Shiloh (Sterling)

- The Incredible Journey (Burnford)

- Big Red (Kjelgaard)

- Summer of the Monkeys (Rawls)

 

Real Life Adventure

- The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill)

- The School Story (Clements)

 

Historical Realistic Adventure

- Sign of the Beaver (Speare) -- Native American

- The Birchbark House (Erdrich) -- Native American

- Children of the Longhouse (Bruchac) -- Native American

- The Kite Fighters (Park) -- 1400s Korea

- Pedro's Journal (Conrad) -- 1492 Columbus

- The Door in the Wall (deAngeli) -- Medieval England

- By The Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) -- 1849 Gold Rush / Clipper Ships around the Horn

- The Great Turkey Walk (Karr) -- 1850s US

- Twenty and Ten (Bishop) -- WW2

- Snow Treasure (McSwigan) -- WW2 

- The House of Sixty Fathers (de Jong) -- WW2

- The Great Wheel (Lawson) -- 1892, the first Ferris wheel

 

Realistic Adventure of Real People/Events

- Naya Nuki: The Shoshone Girl Who Ran (Thomasa) -- friend of Sacajawea who travels 1000 miles alone to return to her tribe

- Born in the Year of Courage (Crofford) OR Heart of a Samurai (Preus) -- 1850s Japanese fisher boy who was shipwrecked

- Behind Rebel Lines (Reit) -- Civil War girl who disguised herself as a boy and spies for the Union

 

 

 

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BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford): Brendon Chase, Little Grey Men, Down the Bright Stream

Roderick Haig-Brown: Saltwater Summer, Starbuck Valley Winter

Armstrong Sperry, All Sail Set

Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons series

Both Michelle Paver series were well-loved here, as were all of the Enid Blyton books (especially the Adventure series).

My kids all loved Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, RM Ballantyne, Anthony Hope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Erskine Childers, Jules Verne...loads of classic adventure stories!

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He's loved my side of the mountain, call of the wild, island of the blue Dolphins etc.

 

He also reads the bear Grylls survival type novels etc. I don't mind him reading some of this type of stuff but I'd like to make sure we mix it up with some better quality stuff as well. He's not really into anything fantasy; more survival and adventure type stories.

 

What did your ten year olds love?

 

Does Bear Grylls have novels for kids?   

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11yo son loved A Door in the Wall and is currently liking The Trumpeter of Krakow. He's not a huge reader for fun but happily reads whatever I assign for school and generally likes it.

 

He's currently bingeing on Andrew Lost books, but they're a bit on the easy side for him.

 

He also liked the Boys of Wartime series (sadly, only three books) a couple of years ago, plus all of Carolyn Haywood's Eddie books, but again, I think those are way easy for him now.

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