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I feel like I am repeating myself but I can’t help it. Before you explore this list, check out the previous age categories first because those lists contain a lot of books for this age group but perhaps they could be enjoyed by a 9- or 10-year-old already so the book is there and not here. Check out Books My Daughter Read in 6th Grade because I no longer list them here if she read them.

The View from Saturday

A Wizard of Earthsea For a list of books in The Earthsea Cycle series click here.

A Spell for Chameleon Click here for a list of books in the Xanth series.

Tarzan of the Apes

Inkheart For a list of books in the Inkworld Trilogy click here.

A Year Down Yonder

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Princess Bride

The Cabinet of Wonders For reviews and a list of books in The Kronos Chronicles series click here.

The Westing Game I read the book to my kids when they were in 4th and 6th grade.

Yellow Star

Peter and the Starcatchers For a list of books in this series click here.

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Old Yeller

Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

Forge (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry For a list of books in this series click here.

The Door in the Wall This book has mixed reviews but so many people loved it that it is worth mentioning here.

Harris and Me

Things Not Seen

The Egypt Game I read it with my kids when they were in 5th and 3rd grade.

One Came Home

Kira-Kira

The Unwanteds For a list of books in the Unwanteds series click here. My son read this series in 2nd or 3rd grade.

The Girl Who Owned a City

Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four For a list of books in The Sports Beat series click here.

How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

Will in Scarlet (a retelling of Robin Hood)

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer For a list of books in this series click here.

The Outcasts For a list of books in the Brotherband Chronicles click here.

The Limit

Dragon’s Keep For other books in the Wilde Island Chronicles click here.

Travel Team (also Summer Ball and Travel Team & The Big Field)

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers

Olive’s Ocean

Alanna: The First Adventure For a list of books in The Song of the Lioness series click here.

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree Click here for the sequel.

The Silent Boy

The Land

Time Stops for No Mouse For a list of books in the Hermux Tantamoq Adventures series click here.

The Diamond in the Window For a list of books in The Hall Family Chronicles series click here.

The Midwife’s Apprentice

I Capture the Castle

The Glass Sentence For a list of books in The Mapmakers Trilogy click here.

Brown Girl Dreaming

The Secret Hum of a Daisy

Ordinary Jack (Bagthorpes) For a list of books in this series click here.

The Summer of the Swans Not everybody loved it but I’ve seen it recommended several times.

Airborn

Mary, Bloody Mary For a list of books in the Young Royals series click here.

The Great Wide Sea

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

The Bronze Bow

Treasure Island

Around the World in Eighty Days

Tiger For a list of books in The Five Ancestors series click here.

Tesla’s Attic For a list of books in The Accelerati Trilogy click here.

Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) For a list of books in this series click here.

Chasing Secrets

Mark of the Thief For a list of books in this series click here.

The Grimm Legacy For a list of books in this series click here.

11 or 12?

Terrier For a list of books in The Legend of Beka Cooper series click here.

The Apothecary Check out the sequel here.

Airman

The Upstairs Room

Hold Fast

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

Heart of a Samurai We listened to the audio book when my kids were in 3rd and 5th grade.

Wild Magic For other books in The Immortals Quartet click here.

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (graphic novel) For a list of books in this series click here.

The Alchemyst For a list of books in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series click here.

The Mystery of the Third Lucretia For a list of books in this series click here.

East

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear Read more about this book here. It is not just a children’s book, it is for all ages. Recommended age was not not clear to me, some say 12 but a lot of people read it to their younger kids, try it and see.