Reading recommendations for kids in the 8-14 age range as of March 8, 2010

Everything in the Puffin series – all of the Newbery Medal and Honor books

After much thought, have decided the best writer for children I have encountered, both boys and girls in the 8-14 age range, is

Rosemary Sutcliff

others close in the mixed sex race include

- C. S. Lewis
- P. L. Travers
- Jean Craighead George
- Farley Mowat.

Writers/books recommended for boys in the 8-14 age range include:

- A. E. van Vogt
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bill Bryson
- Booth Tarkington (mainly the Penrod stories)
- Clarence E. Mulford
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Eric Knight
- G. A. Henty
- H. G. Wells
- H. H. Munro
- Harry Leon Wilson
- Henry Clay Lewis
- Herman Melville (mainly Typee and Omoo)
- Howard Pease
- Howard Pyle
- James Fennimore Cooper
- John Collier
- John D. MacDonald (mainly the Travis McGee series)
- John Myers Myers (both fiction and non-fiction)
- Joseph A. Altsheler
- Jules Verne
- Leslie Charteris
- Mark Twain
- Max Brand (and most of Frederick Faust’s other pseudonyms)
- Nathanial Hawthorne
- Nordhoff and Hall (mainly the Bounty trilogy)
- P. C. Wren
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Philip Wylie
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Robert Heinlein
- Somerset Maugham
- Thorne Smith
- Washington Irving
- Zane Gray