Loved Michael Morpurgo - what next?

[welliewarmer]

DS11 has read all of his books and loved every one. He wants to find a similar author but I can't think of anyone else of that ilk.

I think he likes a really gripping story, which is also realistic. Anyone who's got an older child who loved MM when younger, what are they reading now?

Just to clarify - I have an eleven year old and not 11 sons...

Given that it was over a decade ago, I can't quite remember the ages mine liked the books, but they did like the Percy Jackson series and the young James Bond ones.

The Roman Mysteries - Caroline Lawrence
Sally Lockhart mysteries - Philip Pullman
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Young Samauri
The dog hunters
Infinity Drake

Watership Down

Goodnight Mr Tom and several others by Michelle Magorian
The Explorer
Journey To The River Sea
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Journey to Jo’Berg
When The War Came Home
Letters From The Lighthouse
Oranges in No Man’s Land

The voyage of the sparrow hawk
Northern lights

YY to Michelle Magorian. Goodnight mr Tom is great but Back Home is my favourite book of all time

I would get him a library card and weekly library time.If he's able to read MM, he's old enough to choose his own leisure reading.

Emma Carroll
Gill Lewis
Tom Palmer

Thanks so much for all the recommendations. I absolutely loved Goodnight Mister Tom, that is very like Michael Morpurgo. Our local library is crap for this age bracket. So I tend to fill the bookshelf up and let him choose. Also have a DD (9) who loves reading so what he passes on she often picks up.

Katherine Rundell

@Ceara

Emma Carroll Gill Lewis Tom Palmer

Just sat down to look these up - thank you so much, they seem to be exactly what I was after. I've ordered one book by each of the three authors.

@welliewarmer I have a Michael Morpurgo fan and those are three other authors whose books he's enjoyed :-) Hope yours likes them.

Library card time.