Children's book lists go from Snuggle Puppy to The Stand. That's fine, but as an auntie, it's hard to know where in the spectrum a particular child might fall. So this list is of books you or children you know loved at around age ten.

As part of this series:
Books for one-year-olds
Books for two-year-olds
Books for three-year-olds
Books for four-year-olds
Books for five-year-olds
Books for six-year-olds
Books for seven-year-olds
Books for eight-year-olds
Books for nine-year-olds
Books for ten-year-olds
Books for eleven-year-olds
Books for twelve-year-olds
Books for thirteen-year-olds
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790 books · 408 voters · list created March 12th, 2009 by Emily (votes) .
Tags: 10, age, best, children, ten
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message 1: by Sarah (new)

Sarah I've noticed in this list that books/stories were more catered to the interests for females than males.


message 2: by Christiana (new)

Christiana Only because we give girls plenty of books with boy protagonists but somehow assume we can't possibly do the opposite.


message 3: by Arya (new)

Arya I don't really agree with the list since when I was 10 I read books like Paper Towns, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games, and Uglies.


message 4: by Amellia (new)

Amellia Arya wrote: "I don't really agree with the list since when I was 10 I read books like Paper Towns, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games, and Uglies."

i agree


message 5: by Ska Ⓥ (last edited Mar 21, 2021 07:06PM) (new)

Ska Ⓥ Lee wrote: "What is going on when someone called 'Judy Mooring' is recommending anti-vaxxing books to ten year olds? All of this person's recommendations should be removed as they are clearly not concerned abo..."

I've removed the anti-vaxx book from this list (since it clearly does not belong), but it's a fight against windmills. Finding and removing wrong books is an agonizingly slow process (I've been trying to remove another book from another list for 15 minutes.) whereas it takes a few seconds to add a book to a list.

It might be helpful to report the offending account or ask a super librarian for help.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
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