Quests, expeditions, runaways and rescues. Books that pull a reader out the door and into somewhere bigger.
41 adventure books for 11-year-olds
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Some kids love a hero who saves the day. I was a Matilda-OBSESSED as a kid. The one who loved watching a clever child run rings round the grown-ups while they didn’t even know what was happening. That’s the same itch Artemis Fowl scratches. Matilda runs rings round her parents and the Trunchbull. Artemis does […]
Camp Half-Blood. Riptide (the pen that turns into a sword). The lift up to the 600th floor of the Empire State Building. Annabeth, Grover (the satyr with serious anger issues). If you’re here looking for what to read after Percy Jackson, your child has probably torn through the five originals, maybe Heroes of Olympus too, […]
Raise your hand if you’ve got a comfort show (I’m proud to say I could probably recite seasons 1-10 of Friends off by heart). Or a meal you return to when your brain has left the chat (tuna jacket potato with cheese). Your child re-reading the same book over and over is the equivalent of […]
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