Books for 14 year old boys

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Need help! We've done the usual suspects (Muchamore, Earle etc) and are now out of ideas. Something urban and "real" would be great!

What do you mean by "real"? I can suggest quite a few with urban settings but they have fantastic/sci-fi elements or are post-apocalyptic/dystopian...

Yes - has he tried Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy? Deals with some thought-provoking issues but is basically dystopian fiction.

DS is a bit younger but has been really enjoying the Hunger Games. I haven't read them so don't know whether they'd be any good for older ones too.

YY to Hunger Games. Also Bloodtide/Bloodsong by Melvin Burgess - does have sex, but is written for YA (so target audience 14+). Any Melvin Burgess TBH.

Another vote for Hunger Games trilogy, DS2, 12, devoured these in a week. Maybe try Thirty Nine Steps, Kidnapped and other classics, I started reading Wilbur Smith around 13 they're very good action adventure tales.

The Hunger Games is fab.

iBoy by Kevin Brooks
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perrera
Charlie Higson writes for teens
Andy McNab writes for teens too I think - very actiony.
Stone Cold - Robert Swindells
Andrew Lane - Young Sherlock Holmes series
When I Was Joe and Almost True by Keren David
Boys Don't Cry - Malorie Blackman - or anything by her is great. (Not like Muchamore I realise).

No real suggestions but will be watching: looking for any ideas for this age that are set in current times, not fantasy, not scifi.

Jeffrey Archer books, and Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (amazing book!)

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not nowadays, WW2, very "real".

Jim Carrington's 'In the Bag' is brilliant. Also try Peter Cocks 'The Long Reach' - both are thrillers. My personal favourite for teen boys at the moment though is 'Swim the Fly' - funny and irreverent and just not enough of it's type on the shelves!

My son enjoyed the Cherub series and the Stormcatcher series, but has lost interest in reading again. Anyone got any suggestions as to books in a similar vein?

Percy Jackson maybe Vicki - they're similar, or the "Timeriders" series (I think that's the right name, will check when I get chance)
Skullduggery Pleasant series is good too, and along those lines.
Ingo and The Tide Knot are good - they're fantasy novels, with merpeople in them, and a teenage boy and his sister as the main protagonists.