Books about normal life for preteen boy, do they exist?

[formerbabe]

Looking for a book to try to encourage my ds12 to read more...but I'm not sure what I'm looking for even exists.

He's a bit old now for wimpy kid and read them all anyway so I want something a bit more grown up. He read Adrian Mole and loved it but it's a bit dated and lots of it was lost on him. He doesn't like fantasy or adventure books. He likes funny and realistic. So a diary format is good or just a good funny story that's believable about average kids.

Any ideas I'd be really grateful...hope that makes sense.

Goldfish Boy
A Boy Called Hope
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Check Mates
Boys Can’t Knit

Wonder

I use the Carnegie medal archive lists for inspiration.

https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive/

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and the rest of the "Fudge" series of books by Judy Blume. These were written a long time ago, I read them when I was younger, but they really haven't dated much at all and my DSs (10 and 12) absolutely loved them recently, they read the whole series