Need shortish and pacy books for for 9 year old DS

Mr Gum!

What about some David Walliams? The World's worst... My DC like the rude humour and the individual stories are short.

Same issue. Struck gold with ‘The Secret Zoo’ recently which was a surprise hit. It’s a series too.
I find books with short chapters are better received.

Oh God I'd forgotten those too - they were a BIG hit in our house! And sort of quite funny, in a very American teen way.

Second How to Train your Dragon
Nothing to See Here series
Dave Pigeon
Chicken Mission
Space Penguins

I purchased the first in the 'last kids on earth' series last week and my son has loved reading that. I've already had to buy the rest in the series. It's not that short but it's got pictures in a the font is big so it's easy and quick to read.

So i think what i'm saying is don't force it! Reading comes in many guises - give him plenty of opportunity to read and maybe he will find something he enjoys reading along the way.

Alex Rider. My ds loved it at this age. My dh was less impressed, describing it as unrealistic

i have 5 sons. Eldest Ds (20) has ADHD didn't touch books other than the ones he was made to read at school and now reads motivational books and books related to his job. Ds(18) is dyslexic and autistic didn't read at home until he was 11 and is now an absolutely avid reader or anything he's into. atm he's mainly reading factual history and chess books. Ds (16) hates reading anything in a book but reads everything on the internet regards football - male, female, international, players. He needs to become a pundit! Ds9 is autistic and VERY dyslexic but loves being read to - he loves the Percy Jackson books and Harry Potter and factual animal books that he can access himself now. Ds (6) isn't into books but loves films, which is how ds 18 got into books so maybe he will when he's older.

My DS (8) is the same - really struggle to get him to read anything! However recently he has started to enjoy reading Roald Dahl's Matilda, and really likes it. He loves audio-books (uses his Yoto player for these), and loves listening to Roald Dahl, and Enid Blyton. He also liked Toms Midnight Garden and Horrible Histories as audio-books. I'm hoping his love of Matlida will transfer to reading more! We've tried a few of the suggestions above, but will look at the Barrington Stoke published books - not heard of these.

Try factual books and thinks like Guinness World Records or Ripley Believe it or not, it's not reading reading but many children enjoy them and they were a big hit at the school I worked at, the grosser facts the better in a lot of cases. Public libraries will have them save you buying them too.

Goosebumps
Unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket

Shinyandnew2022 I am actually speaking from experience of having a DD who basically taught herself to read at 2 1/2 and always has loved reading right through to adulthood. My DS, my 2nd child didn't struggle to read but never did for pleasure and I remember a parent evening when he was about 7 or 8 telling the teacher he only read The Beano. She replied that 'At least he was reading' Apart from any texts for school, he had probably read less than half a dozen fiction books for pleasure before he was about 18. It is surprising how much vocabulary they can pick up through reading books about football and extend their knowledge of countries around the world! I will admit I have never enjoyed fiction and never read books whereas my husband reads all the time. So like you my children have taken after each of us. It doesn't affect anything in the end we both went on to higher education and my DS ended up with a Ist degree! ( I'll also admit I was a primary teacher and still took a while to realise it didn't matter!) It's just important to realise they are different individual children and learn in different ways.

Oh God, Beast Quest 😱 my son was obsessed with those for a (mercifully short) while.

The Jack Stalwart ones are quite short - complete rubbish really, but quite short and pacy! And they do like a series at that age.

My 9-yr old also struggled with Amari and the Night Brothers but he loved the Dragon Mountain series (Katie and Kevin Tsang I think), the Wimpy Kid ones and the How to Train Your Dragon series (he ADORES these). He's also loved reading The Hobbit and Treasure Island together, one of those might be worth a try?

The wild robot books have been a massive hit with my almost 9yo - following on from loving the iron man at school.

Pugs of the frozen north & others by the same authors.

adventures on trains series

Tom gates

Have 2 Ds - one just under 11 and one 8 1/2. Noth like dogman and cat kid comic club books, and the 13 storey treehouse books. Also like Tom fletcher and David baddiel - not long chapters. And beast quest and sea quest books. Found a couple of choose your own adventure books set in the beast quest world - those are quite popular at the moment. The older DS will read longer books too - harry potter, marriage series. Although currently on diary of a surfer villager series of books (minecraft characters) on the kindle. I'd there a series or game that your ds likes? Maybe see if any books themed around that. It is amazing what you might be able to find. There are star wars junior novels that were also a hit here.

Mine really liked Tom Fletcher and Warrior Cats at that age

Comic series - Asterix, Usagi Yojimbo, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales (history told in comic format, but with an American slant)

Others - Varjak Paw, The boy at the back of the class/ the lion above the door (same author), Armistice Runner.

The incorrigible children of ashdon place series is excellent and really gripping, but we listen to it on audiobook so I'm not sure what the print version looks like in terms of pictures etc, which might make a difference

The Goosebumps books are excellent. Quickish reads too.

13 Storey Treehouse, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, anything by Jeremy Strong are easy reads and funny, a big hit in my house.