Anonymous wrote:My 10 year old is currently on book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

+1. My oldest really liked that series.

My 10 year old is currently on book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

My 10 year old son has enjoyed:

Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Being Mr. Terupt by Scott Buyea
Mr. Terupt Falls Again by Buyea
The Best Man, by Richard Peck

He liked Pax last year. (Sad, though)
A "scary" ghost story called "Took" by Mary Downing Hahn
Shiloh
A Scholastic book called Crunch, about a gas shortage. It was really pretty cool.

He's got the Playbook (K. Alexander again) and The Girl Who Drank the Moon on his shelf to read next.

My 12 yr old DS is reading the teen version of Enrique's Journey. Puts a lot into perspective.

Lord of the Flies. He's crossing out the names and writing in his siblings.

Anonymous wrote:Joyce's Ulysses was a big hit and Infinite Jest. DC also loves anything Tolstoy, even the lesser translations in English.

my teen is reading his texts, but when he was a tween and still doing a lot of reading on his own, I would check out amazon for his age group and cull through recommendations. there's lots of great stuff for tweens now. he loved:

wonder
one and only ivan
out of my mind
inside out and back again
el deafo
pax
holes
hatchet
counting by 7s
when you reach me
escape from mr lemoncello's library
liar & spy
booked by Kwame alexander
crossover by same
because of mr terupt

Her current library haul:
The Miss Peregrine series
Something by rick Riordan that isn't Percy Jackson (she read all of those already).
Hunger Games trilogy (she borrowed them, but hasn't decided if she wants to read them or not).

9 yo - The Magisterium series, The Percy Jackson series, the My Life as a (Book, Stuntman, Cartoonist...) series.

Actual 9 year old - series of unfortunate events (loved the word play and young enough to still love the repetition), prydain books by Lloyd Alexander, Nancy drew series, revisiting Judy Blume fudge series.

Joyce's Ulysses was a big hit and Infinite Jest. DC also loves anything Tolstoy, even the lesser translations in English.

recent books besides a lot of graphic novels, Animal Farm, Sherlock Holmes, 1984, Tale of Two Cities, various philosophy books.

I don't ask. I take her to the library and she goes to the children's section and I go to the adult section. I know that a few times, I've seen her in the stacks talking with librarians so I think she gets suggestions from them sometimes.

DS is 12.
Some of his last books were:

Michael Strogoff.
Animal Farm.
A year in Provence and other Peter Mayle books.
Bill Bryson books.
The Children of the New Forest.
Foundation novels.

Last year:
The Lord of the Rings.
Isaac Asimov short stories.
My Family and other Animals.
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Other Sherlock Holmes short stories.

Looking for responses more geared towards kids who are readings non graphic novels, comics, too easy books, etc. I'm not dissing any of those choices...just not trying to get ideas from those areas. Preferably aged 9+