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Is there a way to get ds to stretch himself with his reading?

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JumpandScore · 29/11/2015 18:14

He's always enjoyed reading but doesn't seem to have progressed much since he was 8yo, now 14. He knows what he likes and reads the same books over and over. What he likes is Harry Potter, Olympus, Cherub, Skulduggery Crescent. He can read more difficult books, has read Lord of the Rings etc but by preference he always returns to his favourite children's books. What might catch him?

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JumpandScore · 29/11/2015 19:16

Oh he's read all the Hunger Games and Maze Runner ones, are they a bit more advanced?

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Roseformeplease · 29/11/2015 19:14

Try easy adult books - Lee Child, Jack Reacher books. David Gemmell for fantasy, or the Ann Rice vampire ones. They are for adults and he will become absorbed in the plots but the stories are a bit more grown up.

yeOldeTrout · 29/11/2015 19:14

Hunger Games, Darren Shan, CurseWorkers series. The Book Thief, My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece.

Teen fiction tends to be the heaving bosom stuff (vampires) or crazy action adventure (Chris Ryan). Hard to get outside those formulae.

ThomasRichard · 29/11/2015 19:08

Hmm ok, a tough customer :o If he's into fantasy stuff, how about the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series? There's a special edition of the first book aimed at teenager readers (the same as the usual one, just with a different intro).

Or The Golden Compass?

PartyCityGhoul · 29/11/2015 19:06

Terry Pratchett Diskworld? Not sure is 14 is old enough to really get them but he might like them

My non-reading brother adored the Darren Shan cirque du freak books at that age too.

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JumpandScore · 29/11/2015 19:03

That sounded great Thomas as he's read some Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl books, but he's justctold me he didn't enjoy either

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ThomasRichard · 29/11/2015 18:59

How about some of the book series that increase in complexity as they go along? The Alex Rider books do this, as do Eoin Colfer's books, particularly in the jump from the Artemis Fowl books to Airman and his books aimed at adults.

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