What are some good books for a smart 10 year old?

Question

She can read at a 12th grade level. What books would you recommend for her?

She likes any genre of books.

Answer 1

I suggest reading the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.  They are about six kids. The oldest is called Max. She is around fourteen and is the leader. Fang is also fourteen but he is four months younger than Max and is her best friend. The third oldest is Iggy. He is blind due to an experiment. Iggy is fourteen and is six months younger than Max. Bomb making is one of his favorite hobbies. The eleven year old is Nudge. She is a very talkative kid. Very talkative. Next is eight year old Gasman(Gazzy for short) best friends with Iggy and although he doesn't have as many powers as his sister, Angel, his are awesome. Last is Angel. She is a very cute six year old, but sometimes her powers give me the creeps. She has more powers than anyone else, but not all of them are useful. Some are so huge its scary. Her and Gazzy are the only blood siblings in the group. Every kid listed above had been kidnapped or given from their parents to a place called the School as infants. There they had bird DNA grafted into them by scientists, or as they refer to them, whitecoats. Each one of those kids are 98% human and 2% bird. Because of that 2%, they have super acute hearing and vision(except for Iggy). And not to mention wings. At the School, the whitecoats did many cruel and abusive experiments on them, and the one they did on Iggy's eyes blinded him. While they weren't being experimented on, they lived in dog crates. When Max was ten, a whitecoat named Jeb felt sympathy towards the flock and kidnapped them away from there and took them to his home in Colorado with his son Ari. Two years later Jeb vanished and the flock assumed he was dead. Then they lived on their own. That is where the story starts. Its a very bad and sketchy summary type thing for such an awesome series but I hope it helps.  

Answer 2

There are several recent YA titles I'd recommend that are still clean enough for her age:

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Magic in Manhatten series by Sarah Mylnowski

Answer 3

Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe; oldies but goldies.

Answer 4

She should read:

Wuthering Heights

The Illiad

& The Odyssy

Answer 5

Ender's Shadow/Ender's Game by orson scott card.

Artemis Fowl Series.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Answer 6

Well, I would say the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale or the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. They are reading for middle school students, but I still really enjoyed them, and there isn't anything too explicit in them. Another book series would be Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathon Stroud.

Answer 7

Harry potter. Twilight. Anne Rices' vampire chronicals. it starts at interview with the vampire. the princess diarys? humm eragon OH! try the song of the lioness quartet by tamora pierce. any of her books really

Answer 8

Eh, anything.  12th grade is basically adult.  At that age, I was reading at basically adult level, and read:

Harry Potter (although I read the first one at age 5, and read the last one at the current time when I was 9)

Lemony Snicket

Jodi Picoult

Melvin Burgess

But just let her read what she wants, feels comfortable with, and understands.  xxxxx

Answer 9

Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are great.  I read at that level at that age, and loved them.

Those, and 'Lord of the Flies.'  That's a bit tougher, but if she's into allegory and can realize symbolism, then it's perfect.

Some more good ones are 'Ender's Game,' 'The Five People You Meet In Heaven,' and even some Ted Dekker, is she's a Christian.

Answer 10

Get Twilight, The Host.