World Book Day panic

[EnglishHamlet]

Please help!
12 year old boy at secondary school.
School announced on Monday that they want kids to dress up as book characters for World Book Day.
I thought WBD was on Friday so I was planning to sort this out tomorrow, as I have the day off work.
To my horror, I've literally just found out they have to go in dressed up tomorrow!!! DS's school are doing WBD tomorrow!!!
Help!
What on earth can I dress DS as?
To make it more complicated, he now wants a 'cool' look, understated, low key, as he says he'd get laughed out of secondary school if he went in dressed as Harry Potter.
It's 8pm, I'm tired, and I'm really panicking!

@EnglishHamlet "generic teenage boy" would be any book that is contemporary set and the main character is a teenage boy.
So Alex Rider, Percy Jackson, Greg Heffley, Tom Gates (ok he's only 10) the kids from Cherub (when in their civvies) etc.

Heart stopper
Percy Jackson
Any number of David walliams/Ronald Dahl/
Adrian Mole
Phillip Pullman

Not character ideas but conceptual book titles to save the embarrassment of dressing up? Eg a red cut out A on a lapel (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne), ice-cream scoop in top pocket (Scoop by Evelyn Waugh), carrying a photo of a woman (Portrait of Lady by Henry James) or if you have happen to have a v large screw + washer / nut lying around that will be visible from a top pocket (Turn of the Screw) …

Eek I’d have been fuming to receive that email. DS can’t just leave you to think of something, it’s meant to be a book character that he likes. If he didn’t give me a clue he would be going as himself!!

Hikers!😬

Holes
Could get away with The hunger games or Divergent at a push.
Any sports kits? He could do one that’s got a biography.

Johnny Maxwell from only you can save mankind, Johnny and the bomb etc is another normal clothes one

Would he rock a dress ?
The boy in the dress ???

@EnglishHamlet as I said... Alex Ryder!

Newt from Maze runner...?
Or anyone from Maze runner

"So I don't actually know any book characters that he could say he is, whilst dressed in normal clothes!"

A muggle

My DS is in Year 8 and his school aren’t doing anything for it. We’re both so glad!

Wear all black and go as 'Jack' from Shadow Jumper - google for brief summary so he knows who he is!

I organise WBD and I withstand fierce pressure from staff who want to dress up/get the kids to dress up. Absolutely not on my watch!

Diary of a wimpy kid is a good one.

Or go for black jeans and a red/white t-shirt - black, white and read all over to be a newspaper!

in secondary??? jesus just send him in jeans and a hoody

I trot this out every time someone mentions World Book Day but one of my kids once just took an empty washing powder box and said he was Martin Launderette from the Mr Gum books. He much preferred that to the time (in Reception) that I covered him in blue facepaint and bandages and sent him in as Mr Bump.

If you don't have an orange tee shirt for Percy Jackson, go as Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All you need is a dressing gown and a hand towel to drape around your neck.

Extra points of course for taking Pan Galactic Gargleblaster lurid cocktails for the whole class! 🍹 🍹 🍹 🍹

Actually @EnglishHamlet you sound as though you could use a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster or two yourself! Open the blast doors! 🍹 🍹

He'd never in a million years go to school in a dress!! At his school, he'd probably get picked on till year 11 for going to school dressed like that.....

His normal clothes and say he’s Harry Potter in book 7

Jeans and t shirt and say he is a character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid eg Roderick

@Oceancreature I came on to suggest the same :)

Football kit. My year 7 son would not be seen dead dressing up for WBD, are you sure it's compulsory?

No idea but World Book Day is tomorrow. I have been caught out before and therefore look it up and put it in the diary in advance this year. I'd recommend it if your DS is likely to need to dress up again next year. I don't mean that as arsey as it sounds!

Do you have a printer? You could print out one of these masks?
Mega Robo Bros or Bunny Vs Monkey

https://thephoenixcomic.co.uk/world-book-day/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Last-minute%20World%20Book%20Day%20costume%20ideas%21&_kx=CK87GHM5CYuZ_1tSvf35tv2BjVRf0Yf8xVLR__V-PXiIDvdhdNi_PyBlwWkC12_B.RJzEJk

If not for tomorrow then you could think about these books for your son anyway? As they are comics they might be more stimlutaing for him is he has ADHD?

The guy from Percy Jackson - I'm blanking his name but my son went as him in normal clothes and cut out wings on his high top converse