Classic book recomendations for boys.
splashangel
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I'm looking for books to read with my 10 and 11 year old boys. Mostly interested in classics but am open to anything else that might be fun.
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Roald Dahl (if you haven't read them all with them yet)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Hunger Games
Percy Jackson series (modern spin on Greek myths)
Alex Rider series (my students love these)
Sherlock Holmes (classic!)0 -
My Side of Mountain (my son LOVED this)
Hatchet (by Gary Paulson)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Artimus Fowl Series
Hank Zipper Series (?) Written by Fonzie!0 -
My son loved Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series.0
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I LOVED "Johnny Tremain" when I was about that age.0
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I teach 8 & 9 year olds but some that they may love that my students love....
Spiderwick Chronicles
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
Indian in the Cupboard
Hatchet
Call of the Wild0 -
My 10 yo and I are reading Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan (Aussie author).0
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what about the goosebump series?0
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The Hardy Boys!0
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.
People never seem to know it when I mention it, which is a shame. I remember loving it when I was a wee Boyrahan, and I just learned that it won the 1956 Newbery Medal. Who knew?0 -
Huck FInn0
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I also say anything Roald Dahl. Just finished "George's Marvelous Medicine" with my son (he's 6 but reading on almost a 3rd grade level) and he LOVED it.0
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Another good one is Sounder0
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"The Old Man and the Sea" is what started it for my son. I gave him a copy when he was 10. He's 25 now and if you ever see him without a book in his hand you can assume the world is coming to an end sooner than later. He reads everything now though. From classics to modern to sci-fi. The only thing he doesn't enjoy reading is Shakespeare but of course he had to do it for his degree.0
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Peter and the Starcatchers series, its a Peter Pan series that starts from when Peter was an orphan boy. I'm currently reading it right now lol.0
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It's good to go with the classics, because they'll have to know it come high school. Son is currently reading For Whom the Bells Toll.
Last summer he read "The Book Thief" which was VERY good. Highly recommend it.0 -
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Frendle
Huck Finn
The Giver
My Side of the Mountain
The Chronicles of Narnia0 -
OH Wow! THANK YOU ALL!!!
Some of these we have read. Old Yeller, Sounder,The oldman and the sea (dbevisjr, my youngest liked this one) Huck Finn, Diary of a Wimpy Kid... And all are super recommendations. There are so many responses that I'd be hard pressed to acknowledge them all. My Side of the Mountain was one of my favorites and it's next in line. I am really surprised at how many of these I do not recognize. Some I have googled and want to read my self. We don't have T.V. so reading is a hugh thing in our home. Again, I really, really appreciate every book title on this page.0 -
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The Giver.0
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Charlotte's Web0
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How about Harry Potter?0
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The Hunger Games
Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
Catcher in the Rye
The Alchemist
As I Lay Dying.... It's a real dark comedy and difficult language but it's so good! Not for 10yo's
Of Mice and Men
Big Fish
Fifty Shades of Grey.. kidding. Lol.0 -
The Chronicles of Narnia (I esp liked "The Magician's Nephew"--funny, imaginative, and you learn how the lightpost came to be in the middle of Narnia)
Call it Courage
White Fang
Hardy Boys series
Three Detectives Series
Encyclopedia Brown
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (about an ADHD boy)0 -
Little Britches and Little Britches Grows Up. I read those with my son at that age and we both loved it. They are OLD books, so you may have to check e-bay, 2nd hand book stores, etc. We got them in the library but that was 10-12 years ago and they were old then. Some libraries do still keep the old books, but ours throws them out.
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It's good to go with the classics, because they'll have to know it come high school. Son is currently reading For Whom the Bells Toll.
Last summer he read "The Book Thief" which was VERY good. Highly recommend it.
I teach 7th and 8th grade. I can't imagine what kind of 10 year old would be ready for Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. There is plenty of time for classics, age-appropriate ones when the time comes. Youth is the time for wide and varied reading. . there is a wealth of well-written middle grade and young adult lit out there now. Gary Paulsen, Will Hobbs, Rick Riordan. . . all extremely popular with my boys. For a great read for both genders, try Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It will change your life. The author was interviewed a few months ago on NPR. You can listen to the clip on line.0 -
The Virginian by Owen Wister. I think the main character sets a great example of a manly man. It has a lot of funny and adventurous scenarios that boys would like, but you may enjoy it even more. I fell in love with the Virginian when I was a teenager and read the book three times.
Now, I'm married to a manly man and loving it. 0 -
I could make a more complete list if I were standing in my classroom right now where I have 1000 books for kids to check out. Here are some of my popular titles among the boys:
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
The Maze Runner
Rot & Ruin
The Hunger Games
Bluefish
Blood Red Road
Hoot
Heart of a Samurai
Rules
Divergent
The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda
Peak
The Wednesday Wars
Cosmic
The Things a Brother Knows
The London Eye Mystery
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Across the Universe
No More Dead Dogs
Schooled
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
The City of Ember
The Uglies
The Loser List
The Eleventh Plague
The Juvie Three0 -
I googled this one. It's diffrent, huh? Did you read it and if so, how old?The Giver.0 -
The Chronicles of Narnia (I esp liked "The Magician's Nephew"--funny, imaginative, and you learn how the lightpost came to be in the middle of Narnia)
Call it Courage
White Fang
Hardy Boys series
Three Detectives Series
Encyclopedia Brown
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (about an ADHD boy)
White Fang was one of their favorites! Thank you for the suggestions!0 -
The Virginian by Owen Wister. I think the main character sets a great example of a manly man. It has a lot of funny and adventurous scenarios that boys would like, but you may enjoy it even more. I fell in love with the Virginian when I was a teenager and read the book three times. Now, I'm married to a manly man and loving it.
I am so with you here. I started reading Louis Lamore when I was around 12? I still read them occasionally. I joked that they were my romance novels. William Tell Sackett * SIGH*
My boys like them o.k. Not big on them though. Thank you for the reminder on the Virginian. Oh.... And I'm now married to a manly man 0
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