Moving on from Harry P/Lemony Snicket

[Pram1nTheHall]

Any suggestions for good follow-ups to the HP series and the Unfortunate Events series? DS is 8, fluent reader, doesn't mind scary/nasty stuff - in fact positively enjoys it.

He is currently reading an 800-page manual on Lua programming language help me

Philip Pullman trilogy- T'he Amber Spyglass' and the other two?

Wow! With that kind of reading ability how about Mortal Engines Philllip Reeve? Quite dark but nothing too nasty. Scifi/steampunk. Or Diana Wynne Jones? (big influence on JK Rowling). Witch Week and Charmed Life good.

Thanks jade80, think I will get Amber Spyglass out of the library and see how he goes with that

jongleuse - thanks Am hoping the computer programming will keep me in the style to which I intend to become accustomed, but am not sure it's ideal bedtime reading. Thanks for the suggestions too, will check them out.

Diana eJones is fab (far better than JKR)
Artemis Fowle
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Thanks Jux. DWJ definitely seems worth a try.

Definitely Diana Wynne Jones - she's written loads of good books. Artemis Fowl is also good.

Has he read the Percy Jackson series? And Charlie Bone (tho the latter is very like HP)?

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