>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>I remember I read this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_Famille in Russian when I was a kid. I would like to give this book to my son and may be re-read myself.
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>>>>Just curious, how should I search for it in the library (what title and name should I use) and is it popular here?
>>>>
>>>>What other good books for 10 year old can you recommend?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
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>>>10 years old boy:
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>>>(on top off my head)
>>>Treasure Island.
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>>>The Three Musketeers.
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>>I don't know why, but somehow English translation is not that interesting - or may be it was my impression. He didn't read it, I read it recently.
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>>>Robinson Crusoe (not sure about right spelling).
>>>Harry Potter :-)
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>>We read all of them, now we're reading a new series "Children of the Red King".
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>>>All Rafael Sabatini's books (most of them pirate ones :-))
>>>
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>>Interesting - need to check. Don't recall now that good.
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>>About a year ago my mom was trying to find books by Jule Vern (not checking the spelling now) here and couple of our childhood favorites are very hard to find in US - we didn't find them.
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>>I may search for them here in Milwaukee, though - may be I'll have better luck.
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>Jules Verne's books should be widely available, though most of them are printed here in cut-down variations, ditto for Dumas.
>Don't you like to try more serious book, like "Three Men in a Boat"?

ROFL
More "serious", good!!!

Jerome K. Jerome
P.G. Woodhouse
Terry Pratchet

I can't even think about them w/o laugh (and the ARE serious though).
But I am not sure about they are for 10 years old boy.