Books please for DS 10 yrs - great reader but find it boring

[marioncole]

He is currently reading the 'Would I Lie To You?' TV programme tie in book, which is clearly not aimed at children! He loves humour, I think David Mitchell and Lee Mack are his heroes. Oh and Greg Davies because Taskmaster is his favourite TV programme (he'll even leave his PlayStation if that one comes on).

I'm struggling to find him things to read. He starts loads but he finds them boring and usually gives up. He likes Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates books but he reads them in about 2 hours and acknowledges they're too easy for him. I want to try and find him some teen/adult humour books that are appropriate, which is a struggle. He would love the new Robert Webb book, and I would love him to read it for all the positive messages it sends, but it's not really appropriate with all its talk of sex and wanking

I've tried him on David Walliams and David Baddiel kids books but they don't engage him.

Anyone comes across and funny but not inappropriate books he might like? I'm not concerned about bad language.

Wonder; A Wrinkle in Time; Michael Morpurgo; Beanos; How It Works magazine (amazing); DS (11) just read The Martian and loved it; Guinness annuals; Rick Riordan; Dark Lord series; Harry Potter of course; Simon Mayo's YA books are great; Young James Bond; Alex Rider...

My nearly 10 year old DS is similar. He really likes the Bear Grylls books, and the Percy Jackson ones. Constant, constant re-reading of the blasted Wimpy Kid!
He also loved Boy and Going Solo.

He's recently got into the Asterix books too, and is reading the Philip Pullman Grimm Tales but could not get into Northern Lights at all - too old for him yet I think.

My 11 year old reads the Cherub books. He's totally gripped by them. He's DS2 and I don't worry too much about the themes in them.
His friends all play COD and GTA which I don't allow, but he's a sensible kid. I think the benefit of him gaining a love of reading outweighs possible inappropriateness, which doesn't seem to come out.

Neil gaiman only you can save mankind it's great

Again, none of it will come as a surprise to any 10 year old who goes to school.

And our primary school library has two full sets of the books.

The Sea of Trolls Trilogy is excellent and very funny (so my 10yr old reports).

My boy has also really enjoyed the Eragon series and is a step up, reading wise from the likes of How to Train Your Dragon, which he still enjoys but is not a challenge for him. I bought him Mort by Prattchet for Xmas and he chuckled his way through it (his read the younger ones - Truckers/Jonny series and enjoyed them).

The Phoinex is an excellent comic and my boys love it.

He will love The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1)by Rick Riordan. My 10 year old nephew just loves it. Thats his best pick out of the lot to reread. Also he was telling me that
The Map to Everywhere Hardcover by Carrie Ryan
The Boundless Hardcover by Kenneth Oppel
The Black Stallion Paperback by Walter Farley
were his favs. So you can try them also for your son.

I second The Dark Lord. Ds found them hilarious!

Yes. DS2 absolutely loved the dark lord books.

He's really liking mortal engines at the moment. And also the septimus heap books, which he finds funny.

Will he read factual books? Or factual based books like Little House on the Prairie or When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit?

I'd try graphic novels as well, something like the Amulet Series is wonderful.