Suitable books for a 12/13 yr old boy with 16 reading age.

stashmycash

Thanks for all your suggestions.

He should surely be able to find something he likes out of all that lot.:beer:

roversbabe

Artemis Fowl books - they're brilliant. I know that they're for kids but I've just read the 1st one and its superb. Also, Terry Pratchett does some great kids books, Wee Free Men, Wintersmith and a few others.

bunty109

stashmycash wrote:

He's interested in facts , but his school want him to read more novels.Trouble is our local library is rubbish and he can't find anything he likes at school.He has out grown the books we have at home or they are too old for him.

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Your local library might not have what you want but they should be able to order stuff in for him from their larger branches (if he's a teenager they might not charge for this).

If he finds an author he likes, then I'd suggest if they have a reference copy of a book called something like "Who else writes like....". All you do is look up the author you like, and it tells you other authors who write similar stuff. It's very good and I use it a lot at work (in a library!!)

I work in a very small library, but we can order from all over the county so it's possible to get all sorts sent. In Herts juniors aren't charged for reserving junior fiction so it's worth popping into your local library and asking!

littlescarlet

Try the Lyra books The Subtle Knife etc. These will be approved of by school, plus they are a good read. Also try some of the 'hard' sci-fi meant for teenagers if he likes facts. I loved Robert Heinlein's Space Cadets at that age its an oldie but goodie with lots of science at just about the right level.

carol9uk

my son who is almost 13 loves lemony snicket a series of unfortunate events books

anguk

I can recommend the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore. The author posts on another forum that I visit and his books are excellent.

You can read a few pages of the first book in the series here.

lewt

yeah adrain mole. or dave courtney's stop the ride

ohreally

I take it we're talking litrature "books" rather than reading material?

Lord Of The Flies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
The Catcher In The Rye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
Animal Farm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

It's very difficult to recommend due to the diversity of both books, personalities and abilities.When my youngest was that age, he would think nothing of picking up books that i would think twice about and then write an essay about the book just read.

RufusFrog_2

I wouldn't force too much 'literature' on a young teenager (especially 'catcher in the rye' which I read at 15 and didn't really 'get'). At that age I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy (pretty well covered already but special mention to Sylvia Engdahl's 'Children of the Star') but also plenty of trashy action thriller type stuff (and it never did me any harm!). I read everything that Alistair Maclean ever wrote, plenty of Wilbur Smith and dipped into older authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Robert E. Howard, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And I just loved the Leslie Charteris 'Saint' books (much more entertaining than the lamentable TV series and film). One of the few thrillers whose plots I can still recall is 'Kolymsky Heights' - unbelievable! - but I was a bit older when I read it.

I also recently enjoyed 'Fly by Night' by Frances Hardinge (although it does have a heroine which some boys just won't be doing with). And likewise the 'Uncle Albert' series by Russell Stannard, relativity and quantum physics made comprehensible!

JULIE

Hi, my 13yr old also likes Darren Shan, also Christopher Paolini books, if you want something more advanced my hubby reads books by Clive Cussler... no sex but very James Bondy..lots of espionage, action etc