Recommendations
Hi there. My 10 y.o daughter loves reading and she read most of the classics. I am looking for other good books for her to read at this age that don't contain witchcraft, LGBT, etc. She loves adventure and mystery books
Thank you
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The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart
Chasing Vermeer is a great mystery for that age. The Phantom Tollbooth and Tuck Everlasting are classic fantasy adventures. And From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a great mystery/adventure set in the real world.
Louis L’Amour Down the Long Hills
Julie of the Wolves
Kavik the Wolf Dog
My Side of the Mountain
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Swiss Family Robinson
Call it Courage
Hatchet & the sequels
Caddie Woodlawn
My Friend Flicka,
The Black Stallion series
Black Beauty
National Velvet
Where the Red Fern Grows,
Old Yeller,
Hound Dog Man
Sounder
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
Big Red,
King of the Wind,
Gentle Ben,
Call of the Wild,
White Fang,
Johnny Tremain
Bridge to Terabithia
Jacob Have I Loved
Shiloh
Onion John
The Sign of the Beaver
The White Stag
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Secret of the Andes
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Rifles for Watie
The Matchlock Gun
The Cay
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Holes
Frightful’s Mountain
Cold River
Ronia the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
The Moomintroll books by Tove Jansson.
Has she read Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne?
The Trixie Belden mysteries series: Starts with Trixie Belden and the Mysterious Code
The Nancy Drew mysteries, especially if you can get the older versions of the stories.
Phyllis Whitney has some good mysteries for that age: The Mystery of the Haunted Pool, The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost, The Mystery on the Isle of Skye, The Mystery of the Gulls, The Secret of the Samurai Sword
The Three Investigators mysteries by Robert Arthur: Starts with The Secret of Terror Castle and The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Saturdays and The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
*Chains*, *Forge*, and *Ashes* by Laurie Halse Anderson