Children books: from 10 to 14 years old

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer lives with his brother Sid and Aunt Polly in St Petersburg, Missouri. He is a great friend of Huckleberry Finn and this is an account of their adventures....

My Family and other Animals

The teenage years of an English boy, living on the Greek island of Corfu, written in autobiographical style. As the book title suggests, the there are two possible...

Letter for the King

Tiuri is a 16 year old boy who, the night before his appointment as knight, while watching the weapons in a chapel, is called from outside. Breaking the rules of not...

Ender's Game

Set in the future, mankind is at war with insect-like aliens called, rather unfortunately, the buggers, who want to wipe out the humans. A sensitive young boy called...

The Secrets of the Wild Wood

Ristridin is called by the king to confirm the rumors about the Wild Forest. For that reason, he leaves in company of the knight Arwaut and of a score of warriors......

The Little Prince

"The Little Prince" is the most famous book by the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900- 1944). It is a contemporary classic of world literature....

Captains Courageous

Harvey is a ten year old boy who falls by accident into the sea during a boat trip, and is saved by a fishing boat. He has to spend a season on board before he can...

The Boy in the striped pyjamas

It is hard for the reader not to remember the basic features of this novel; its reading will not be to discover Bruno's innocence. He is a nine-year-old boy, the son...

The Neverending Story

This unique book contains two seemingly parallel stories (each written in a different color): the first, in the real world, begins when Bastian finds a book called "...

Die Scanner

A thriller about the future of the digital age and a critique of our times. In 2035 there are no printed books, newspapers or magazines. Rob has grown up in an...

The Puppet Boy of Warsaw

1942, Warsaw. Mika, a young Polish boy, inherits from his grandfather, a university professor killed in the Warsaw ghetto, his puppets and a large coat full of...

Five on a treasure island

Julian, Dick and Anna are going to spend the holidays with their uncles Quintin and Fanny, and their cousin Georgina, who likes to be called George. Although George...