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Novels for a 12-year-old obsessed with planes/flying

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spiderlight · 07/06/2019 10:57

DS is 12 and a very able but reluctant reader. He's recently developed an obsession with planes and decided he wants to be a pilot. I've found plenty of factual books about planes but I'd like him to be reading more proper chapter books as well to help with his attention span. Any ideas? He's read 'Grandpa's Great Escape' and loved it, but is a bit old for David Walliams now.

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GeorgeTheBleeder · 07/06/2019 14:51

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Flight to Arras

John Buchan - Mr Standfast (The third Richard Hannay novel.)

Kenneth Oppel - Airborn (I admit I haven’t read this, but it’s on the shelves and I wasn’t going to stop at a meagre two books. Blush)