Books for a 9 year old boy who has done wimpy kid

[AnzoneioBanderas]

wont do harry plopper
likes adiran mole
liked horrid henry
have read together hitler and pink rabbit and good night mr tom
likes a bit of history
NOT dragons etc

[BudaisintheZONE]

Watching with interest! Have an almost nine year old who loved Wimpy Kid and is still into Horrid Henry. Bought him Good Night Mr Tom but it is unread. Will read it to him I think.

Tells me he is not ready for Harry Potter. Didn't think of Adrian Mole.

I bought him the first Beast Quest one but not interested as yet anyway.

[AnzoneioBanderas]

oh yes you deffo need to read to hiim - is rather tragic. we loved it
beast quest too small id think.
hitler pink rabbit is good.
he really WANTs a new book
he loved the glory gardens cricket oens

[AnzoneioBanderas]

this series - no idea on order read htem last summer.

Ds3 ( high reading age) is loving teh fergus crane book - has enough pics to break up text - he is 7

[AnzoneioBanderas]

Fergus crane

[Marjoriew]

Grandson loves Wimpy Kid.
Doing Goodnight Mr. Tom - watched the video for our WW2 project.

We're on Beast Quest at the moment - 3 for 2 in WHSmith.

[SolidGoldBrass]

I was going to recommend The Black Riders by Violet Needham, which is a wonderful book, but basically you'll have a hell of a job getting hold of it and I'm afraid I'm not prepared to sell or lend my copy...

[cornsilk]

My ds loves Paul Jennings books-alsoloved Wimpy Kid

[librarymice]

My DS (7) read Mr Gump and Grubtown Tales after Wimpy Kid.

[AnzoneioBanderas]

oh bum i typed a long reply saying that in the end we got a book callled Oi cave boy ( ds3 loved) and oen called the worlds biggest head
adn its not here!

[AnzoneioBanderas]

ds3 - 7 but vg readerread this in a day and ds2 thinks this is great here

[bobbiewickham]

Mr Gum books are fab - make me cry laughing.

My 9 yo loves World According to Humphrey series.

Also Michael Morpugo, though be choosy as older end can be a bit much.

David Walliams have been a hit. Loved them both equally, though Mr Stink a bit more mainstream.

Take it you've done Jeremy Strong?

[posieparker]

Inkheart?
this?

[AnzoneioBanderas]

mine only liked my brothers botom ones
think his are a bit hit and miss

hated the dragon taming one
hated all the animal ones
didnt like juggy mc whoever and woudlnt LOOK at ones abotu humphrey

[AnzoneioBanderas]

you see he is too cool for fantasy

ds3 he likes fnatasty

ds2 says that teh big head one i linked to is as funy as wimpy kid

[florenceuk]

There are three of these: Johnny and the Bomb

and two of these Solomon Snow

Also Cosmic recommended on here - DS loved it.

Did he like Percy Jackson - DS has gone on to read Rosemary Sutcliff's version of the Battle of Troy and Odysseus on the basis of these!

[posieparker]

Must be some stories about Vikings, not fantasy, or other historical adventures. Apparently there's a serious called "Roman Mysteries"..well that's what my Amazon search pulled up!!

[posieparker]

and look at this review!!
This review is from: The Enemies of Jupiter: Roman Mysteries 7 (The Roman Mysteries) (Paperback)
One of the best so far!Im nine years old and LOVED IT! The four detectives(Nubia,Lupus,Johnathon and Flavia)go to Rome because the Emperor Titus has a secret misson for them:to find who opened the Pandora's Box. But Johnathon is distracted by a secret mission of his own! He is trying to get his supposeingly 'Dead' mother to meet his father who is there to cure pationts with the fever.But then everything goes terribly wrong...

[bobbiewickham]

Oh yes, maybe a Pratchett fan if he likes history.

Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb are v good.

[Whippet]

Demon headmaster series - Gillian Cross?

Diamond Brothers series - Antony Horowitz?

(Is Alex Rider too difficult at the moment?)

[AnzoneioBanderas]

ds1 and I found roman mysteries dull.
ds3 will like i think.

yes funnily enough we bought percy jackson and it seems to be sarcy and cool enough for him to tolerate monsters

he READ ME OUT bits of the big head book i linked to today.
its utterly hilarious

[AnzoneioBanderas]

yes too young for A h i think.

jjohnny and bomb looks great.
ds1 liked cosmic and Millions - think d2 is too small

[Whippet]

AB - He might be too young for the Alex Rider series, but the Diamond Brother series are aimed at a younger target audience IIRC. DS started these at 9 and gravitated onto the 'older' AH books more recently (now 10.5)

[claudine9]

Try A Million Footsteps - it's a proper adventure story about two boys travelling across France to find their little sister - no monsters or dragons or wizards or witches, just good old fashioned stuff!

[liliputlady]

My D likes dipping in to the Roman Mysteries series, in between other reads. We got it from the Book People.
Has anyone mentioned a Series of unfortunate events?

[iheartdusty]

we are reading this and loving it