My 8 year old son has loved the frank lampard books about

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Frankish magic football. He reads these to himself at bedtime and it's really helping his reading. He also enjoys David Williams and Ronald Dahl but prefers me to read them to him.
Could anyone recommend some more books he may enjoy reading by himself? Especially if they are football ones!

Another vote for. Chris Hoy's Flying Fergus series, and Beast Quest. Also Horrid Henry, Dirty Bertie, and Captain Underpants.

This thread has cost me a fortune! We've loved Jamie Johnstone on CBBC so those books are coming then I discover Chris Hoy's series and my bike mad DS now has enough books to last him the summer!

My DS 9 loved all of the Tom Gates books. He enjoyed the David Walliams ones and is now on the Harry Potters- will have a look to see what others he read before those (I know there's a whole series I'm forgetting). DD7 is into Rainbow Magic Fairies and rescue princesses...not sure they'd appeal to an 8 yr old boy!

I find Michael Morpugo a bit lachrymose.

We had tears when DS read the Michael Morpurgo books!

How to train your Dragon books? David Baddiel books? I would also have a look at the Booktrust website which gives reading age and interest age.

Just remembered the Ricky Ricotta series (Ricky is a mouse with a giant robot friend. They battle various baddies in each book). The books are funny with great illustrations.