Books for a 12 year old boy

chorlton

I'd recommend The Skullduggery Pleasant books by Derek Landy - and the Edge Chronicles series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.

Mela322

badmemory wrote: »

When you have selected a book or series, it may well be worth checking if it uses American spelling (colour/color etc) and also that the grammar used is good. This obviously isn't an issue for adults but for a youngster could be important if they go on to read a really long series, because at that age they are like sponges & you wouldn't want them soaking up that stuff.

The American spellings at this age won't matter. We are American and moved here back in 2007. My son, at the time was told at school they would accept both British and American spellings. It's not a very huge list of commonly used words.

Mrs_Soup

If he enjoyed Hunger games I would go with Maze runner and or Divergent series - I would say the former is more violent than hunger games and the latter is more romantic but are on similar lines. Has he read How to Tame your dragon- there are 12 of those, pitched at a slightly younger level than the dystopian stuff mentioned, but the humour is good and they are illustrated.

Robisere

Totally agree about American spelling. It's a living, evolving language that is used for international communication and business all over the planet. (despite President Macron's interventions) What does a little difference of one consonant matter?

Look at how many far-flung nations use it as a First Language. Listen to it spoken by Australians, Indians, New Zealanders, Canadians (who do use it differently to Americans) any African country with English as a first language. There are very few amongst that selection, who cannot understand each other. Except some English people, apparently...;)