Books for a 12 yr old boy

[AuntieMaryHadACanary]

Hi
Can anyone suggest any books for a 12 year old boy? He has enjoyed the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore, The Bear Grylls mission survive series, the Tom Gates books, the How to Train Your Dragon series. He is a good reader, has always loved books but has hit a bit of a wall recently.
Any other ideas gratefully received! Thanks

[freshprincess]

Marking place so I can pinch some idea. Since DS has started high school and no longer has to fill in his 'reading diary' anymore, he hardly reads anything.
The last set he read was the Charlie Higson Zombie series. I'm struggling to get him interested in anything else.

[Sadik]

DD liked the Insignia trilogy (SJ Kincaid)

[marceline]

My 12 yo has just started getting the R L Stine 'Goosebumps' series and seems quite gripped.

[AuntieMaryHadACanary]

It is a bit of a tricky age isn't it, freshprincess?
Thanks for the suggestion sadik I'll take a look.

[AuntieMaryHadACanary]

Thanks marceline I'll have a look at that too.

[Allalonenow]

Holes, or anything by Louis Sachar
Millions, or anything by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Knight's Fee or anything by Rosemary Sutcliff
Anything by Ursula Le Guin
Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth

Older classics, Ivanhoe, The Thirtynine Steps....

[AuntieMaryHadACanary]

Ooh super suggestions Allalonenow thank you!

[PotatosMum]

Anything by Darren Shann

[sunnydayinmay]

I have just upgraded ds1's library card and let him loose in the teenage section (12-16's). Loads of books I hadn't heard of.

[AntiquityUbiquity]

Ds12 has recently loved

Rot and Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry
The Knife of Never Letting Go trilogy by Patrick Ness
Re-creating all the Percy Jackson books
Hunger Games books

[AuntieMaryHadACanary]

Thanks everyone loads of suggestions, you lot are fab!

[mrsmortis]

The Stoneheart trilogy by Charlie Fletcher, especially if you live in London or he is familiar with it. It's based in London in the present day so everything is recognisable but it's a fantasy too and it makes you look at all the monuments and statues you see completely differently.

[BlueChampagne]

Complete Sherlock Holmes?
Alan Garner?
Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy?

Second Ursula Le Guin

[bumblingbovine49]

Ds like the maze runner set of books by James Dashner. Also he has been reading "The Gone Series by Michael Grant He seems to like them a lot

[bumblingbovine49]

DS (11) like the maze runner set of books by James Dashner

Also he has been reading "The Gone Series by Michael Grant He seems to like them a lot

[Allalonenow]

Oh, glad someone mentioned The Hunger Games and Alan Garner. There's also The Dark is Rising series (Susan Cooper IIRC) DS used to read them around Christmas time.
And don't forget The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings if he's not already read them.

[Doyouthinktheysaurus]

The Roman Mysteries
Cirque du freak by Darren Shan
Ds1 is 13 but started reading Discworld at 12. He absolutely loves them.
Swallows and Amazons; the full series

[BlueChampagne]

Second The Dark is Rising and Tolkein
Swallows and Amazons great for the right child (I loved them as a kid)
Leon Garfield?
Jack London?
Even Robert Graves's "I, Claudius" perhaps

[MeDented]

The Spooks series too

[Nicknamegrief]

The Redwall books by Brian Jacques.
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit.
Terry Pratchett.
Miss Pettergrew's something something peculiar children.
The Marvels- by the guy who wrote Hugo, I think.
Lord of the Flies
1984
Phillip Pullman's books!

[AntiquityUbiquity]

Heartland Trilogy by Chuck Wendig

It's all zombies & dystopia here!

[BlueChampagne]

Has he read Mortal Engines?

[iseenodust]

Dark Lord (actually humorous)
Skullduggery Pleasant
Phantom Tollbooth
The Roman Mysteries by C Lawrence
Percy Jackson

[deepdarkwood]

Marking place to add/nick later :-)

[Soupswoop]

Did he go on to read the Henderson's Boys (Spin-off series) after Cherub?

Also suggest Trouble Twisters series by Garth Nix and Unicorne Files series by Chris D'Lacey.