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pollyanna24 wrote: »I second the Gone series by Michael Grant where kids under the age of 15 are stuck in a "bubble" in their home town and anyone over that age disappears.
One of the best books I've ever read (even though I'm 23!) and has a male protagonist, unlike Hunger Games and Divergent.
It's easy to read but deals with some excellent issues.
It's a series of 6 books and I found it addictive!0 -
at that age I was reading the lord of the rings- still at or near the top of my booklistproud gran to 4 lovely boys and one little girl0
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Also not SF but I would have loved it at that age - Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane'. Like Mieville's 'Railsea' it has a real aura of other-worldliness and is very well written. Some of the layers an adult will pick up might be missed by a younger reader but all the best books are read more than once, revealing more each time.0
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As a 30 something, I love teenage fiction...
I too love the Gone series - and will not let my 10 year old son near it yet! Too gory in places.
H.I.V.E. is a good series - imagine the school where Blofeld trained to be the baddie he is, and you have the main premise.
Young Sherlock Holmes and Young James Bond are pretty good too.
Conspiracy 365 series is gripping.
Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan are very good.
And if he liked Harry Potter, then the Charlie Bone series is of a similar style.Who made hogs and dogs and frogs?
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My son is no reader and he loved the Alex Ryder Books. He also loved Harry Potter and the His Dark Materials series.The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best0
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On the recommendation someone made earlier I got a copy of how to train your dragon on a audio book... have David Tennants lovely voice filling my car on the drive to work... made my morning
Please note I have a cognitive disability - as such my wording can be a bit off, muddled, misspelt or in some cases i can miss out some words totally...0 -
Can you recommand any teenage boys book to do with sport that would be fiction. My DS12 doesn't care at all for any fantasy books or even detective but love sport. We have already done the Jamie Johnson series, most which are read much too quickly for my bank balance liking, and I am now at lost as to what else is available. Any idea?0
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