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Hi all, I'm looking for fiction recommendations for my 8.5 yo ds who's sensitive (doesn't like to read about ghosts, spirits, or see dark images). He's just began to read Harry Potter series and skipped some pages he claimed are scary and wouldn't read it at night. He just read The Thief Lord, enjoyed it very much but wouldn't read it at night. I gave him Dragon Rider and he just started that, so I don't know what he thinks of it yet. He likes mystery, spy adventure, and is excited to read anything with an exciting plot, a funny one is a plus of course.

 

Thank you in advance for your tips.

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Is "silly" suspense OK?

Whales on Stilts, etc. ("M.T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales")

 

 

E. Nesbit

Avi

Chasing Vermeer and sequels

Peter and the Starcatchers and sequels

Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

maybe The Anybodies, The Nobodies, The Somebodies -- they aren't terribly suspenseful and are quite humorous

Freddy the Pig Stories (Freddy goes to Florida is the first)

Molly Moon series

Sammy Keyes series

The Great Brain series

some Sid Fleischman

Nicholas series by René Goscinny

Polly Horvath

maybe some Iva Ibbotson... lighter than Harry Potter

Emil and the Detectives

Stig of the Dump

The Hall Family Chronicles (the first is The Diamond at the Window)

Swallows and Amazons series

James Thurber -- The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O

 

 

I'm not sure about these, but DD the Elder recommend the Alcatraz series by Sanderson. Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians is the first. I'm hesitant only because there are lots of little cliffhangers. However, it's very silly, and the fifth and final book is due out in December.

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A few ideas:

 

Peggy Parish books (the mystery series, not Amelia Bedelia)

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare

The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill

The Invisible Friend by Lois Johnson (mystery)

 

Also, this is a great leveled book list site!

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  • 10 years later...

This is an old post, but I am just putting a list together and had some that weren't included here. Many of my suggestions are older books because I think sometimes older books expected children to be less "worldly" or perhaps more "sheltered"?

 

Henry Huggins series
Homer price series
Burgess animal books by Thornton Burgess
Any of the early novels by Cynthia Rylant (like the Gooseberry Park series)
Some of the Cynthia Voight novels
My Father's Dragon series
The Moffatt children series 
The Railway Children and other by Edith Nesbitt
Swallows and Amazons 
Twenty-One Balloons
Cheaper by the dozen series
The Phantom toll booth
Paddington Bear series
The Estes series 
The Moomin books
Mr. Popper's Penguins
All of a Kind Family series
Owls in the Family
Understood Betsy
Miss Pickerell series
Mercy Watts series by Kate Dicamillo
The Great Horned Spoon
George's key to the Secret Universe series by Stephen and Lucy Hawkings


Consider non-fiction books as well. My boys loved reading non-fiction literary books (where there is more text than pictures). They mostly loved science and nature books (and not so much biographies). This website has a good mix: https://imaginationsoup.net/nonfiction-book-recommendations-for-10-year-olds/

Also, don't be afraid to let them read lots of pictures books! There are some really beautiful ones there. The oldest of my five highly-sensitive children read them into her teens. She is in graphic design and social media communications now and I can't help thinking that her love of the picture book contributed to her skills in design!

 


 

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Check out these two series, warriors and wings of fire.

the first is cats as warriors, the second is dragons.

my sensitive yet not quite girly daughter loves these series. She is not into Harry Potter, too scary at times. But she has soaked up these books with amazement. They are both available on hoopla if you want to check them out to see if it’s his style or not. 

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