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My 9 year old and I just read The Underland Chronicles. It's a five book series. It was very good. Even made me cry. :)

 

He also loved The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D'Lacey (has read it a few times actually)

 

We are currently reading 39 Clues. We are only in Book 1. So far so good.

 

Fablehaven is next on our list.

 

Has your son read the other Rick Riordan books? Demigod diaries? Last Olympian series? etc. my son loved all of those too!

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More Rick Rordan for sure. There's the Greek and Roman which both include Percy Jackson, but there's also his Kane Chronicles inspired by Egyptian mythology.

 

Redwall? Series of Unfortunate Events (shorter, but ds seems to enjoy them)? Tolkein might be too much of a stretch, but what about The Hobbit?

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Heros of Olympus and the Kane Chronicles, also by Rick Riordan.

 

Other fiction things my son has enjoyed at ages 9-10 (he just plowed through the Riordan books when he finally got over his bias against the genre):

 

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Treasure Island

Time Machine

War of the Worlds

George's Secret Key to the Universe and the sequels

Swiss Family Robinson

Johnny Tremain

Extra Credit and the various books by Andrew Clements

Gregor the Overlander (also a series)

A Wrinkle in Time series (which started again after realizing there were no more Riordan books out, lol)

 

 

He is mostly a non-fiction reader though so I am always glad when he likes a fiction book.

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Brian Jacques' Redwall

Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising

Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain

Dave Barry's Peter and the Starcatchers series

Elizabeth Winthrop's The Castle in the Attic and Storming the Castle (shorter books, but these stuck with me decades afterwards)

 

 

More sci-fi, but my son loved them:

John Christopher's The Tripods series

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