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I would say the EDGE chronicles are *perfect* for him Cami, they really are, and I think you would get a big kick out of them too.

Uhh I wouldn't think of that book as appropriate for a 10 year old actually GieG, I think it's just a little bit too old for that age.

I'll give it a read first, I normally do anyways, then I'll pass it on to him to read if it gets the :)

Started with Stephen King at that age myself, but to be honest, that's definitely not the most appropriate way to go.

The Pullman trilogy is pretty good, all things considered and for that age anyway.

I could give you a list of good manga too, but no sexual innuendo makes it a bit hard

Star Wars books?

Discworld series by Pratchett definitely is suited, there isn't that much of sexual innuendo in it, or it's very obscure or vague.

Piers Anthony is interesting because he likes to think of himself as a mature author but most of his books, especially the newer ones, are very much oriented at teenagers. You have to go back to his earlier works (many of which suck) and his collaborations to find the better written books. His collaborations are really hit or miss though. The one he did with Mercedes Lackey was great but the one he did with Philip Jose Farmer sucked big time.


That's only really true of the Xanth and Mode books. I don't remember Adapt or Incarnations having much, if any of that.


I stopped reading the Xanth books a number of years ago but personally I think the ones in the middle were the best. Like 7-15 when he was first starting to get punny but hadn't gone completely overboard yet.

That's probably mild enough that I wouldn't have a problem, it's in everything, even so called age appropriate cartoons. I let him read certain Manga's as well that occasionally reference blush worthy panty/boob shots. I'm talking about scenes that are very obviously leading up to or descriptive about past/present/future sexual encounters.

I know he's about a year and a half away from how old I was when I started reading The Clan Of The Cave Bear (Earth's Children Series). Looking back I definitely wouldn't want my son reading those yet! I'm gonna re-read The Hobbit, I think it's probably fine for him, but I honestly can't remember all of it. I don't think any of the fight scenes were the type to leave awful images in his head either.

Thank you guys for the suggestions thus far, yet more that I can go check out. :)

Grace Chetwin's Gom on windy mountian series (wayyy better than Harry potter) - similar premise.
Brian Jacques' Redwall series. Start with the actual book redwall though.
The Tripods series:
1.1 The White Mountains
1.2 The City of Gold and Lead
1.3 The Pool of Fire
1.4 When the Tripods Came (1988)
Michael Stackpoole's X wing Rogue squadron series.

Definitely start the series with Redwall itself. The Redwall books are best read in the order they were written, not chronological order within the series time line.

Enders game? I read them around then. Definitely makes you think as someone growing up in that age group!

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Yeah, Watership Down was one of the first books I read that ended up hooking me. I'd definitely recommend that. I just picked up the Wrinkle in Time series for my buddy's son, who's in 3rd grade. I guess it may be a little high level for him, but he likes reading books with his Grandmother which is how they did the Harry Potter ones, so that may work. I'm a little fuzzy on it, I remember reading the first one when I was a kid and I liked it a great deal, but never got to the following books. Hopefully he likes them.

Yeah he liked a Wrinkle in Time, I've got the next two for him as well. What I did w/the Harry Potter books was I got the audio books for them to read along with, by the 3rd book neither one needed the audio books anymore. Both of my sons are excellent readers. It's actually quite a pain in the *** to keep them reading and interested since a lot of what they can relate to they finish too fast >.<

This sounds wonderful, I must read it myself! :D

Without question you have to try "The Dark is Rising" series, by Susan Cooper. Get the books seppearatly, and not the omnibus edition, which looks scarily large to a younger child! From Memory (hope I remember right >.<) they go:

Over Sea, Under Stone,
The Dark is Rising,
Greenwich,
The Grey King,
Silver On the Tree.


I read the first two Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones when I was about 10, and loved them. Apparently there's more of them out now, I'll have to find them myself! She's written heaps of others, and some of those also are fantastic children's books. The first two Chrestomanci books:

A Charmed Life
The Magicians of Caprona.


Alan Garner was another childhood favourite author. The name that sticks out is "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen"

"Which Witch" by Eva Ibbotson. The plot might sound really girly, but I remember it as being full of wonderfully gruesome things.

All of the above stick in my mind as utterly entrancing me as a child. I too was an advanced reader, having got through the Hobbit when I was 8, and TLOTR when I was nine. "The Worst Witch" cames to mind too, but I can't remember any of the story, so I can't tell you if it's any good.





Hahahahaha omg! The Clan of the Cave Bear and it's sequels I read when I was 14 or 15, and above anything else they struck me as being full of sex, sex, and more sex. I was initially entranced with it all, but by the third book, I actually abandonded it because there didnt' seem to be anything more going on than fights and make-up sex.

I read a heap of adult books when I was a young teenager, and they all were WONDERFULLY educational. When I finally got round to losing my virginity at 18, I was very confident with it all, because of all my reading experience! Kids have to learn some time, but yeah, I think clan of The Cave Bear is better left around for a fourteen year old to find than a ten year old!

Edited, Dec 20th 2007 4:35am by Aripyanfar