Looking to build a list of recommendations for my 12-year-old son. Adventure, fantasy, realism - anything you think is truly worth reading. flag. All Votes Add Books To This List. 1. Isle of Winds (The Changeling, #1) by. James Fahy. 4.26 avg rating — 1,422 ratings. We have come to your final pick of the best graphic novels for 10-12 year olds, Northern Lights. It’s the first volume in Philip Pullman ’s award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy, but this graphic novel adaptation was first published in French. The other books I have picked were all graphic novels to start with. Martins describes Strider’s 12 Sport as a “well-known, quality bike” with adjustability options and an extra-long seat post that allows it to fit kids between about 18 months and 4 years old 9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Your kids won’t know that this book teaches them colors, counting, the days of the week, healthy eating and the process of metamorphosis. They’ll Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This story of suffering and overcoming is beautiful, moving, and life-changing. 12-year old Willow is a genius with limited social skills whose adopted parents die in a car crash leaving her both confused, grieving, and without any support to make sense of the world. Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (2007 – 2014): These books are a lot of fun. Landy hybridizes elements from so many genres, including the Lovecraftian Weird, his books are impossible to summarize in a sentence. Skulduggery Pleasant opens when a twelve-year-old girl is saved by a fire-ball throwing detective, who is also a skeleton. Best books for 12-14 year olds We've put together a list of the 100 best books for children from the last 100 years. The books below are ones suitable for older children aged 12 to 14. Ages 11+. When brilliant young prodigy Christie Holmes is left in the care of servants upon her parents' departure for India, she decides to follow in the footsteps of her eminent uncle Sherlock Holmes and use her gifts for logic to solve mysteries. Note: Mild violence. Possibly distressing images. Bky67f.