DS is in Y6 and has just turned 11.
He’s been a very very slow and reluctant reader and has finally this year started a habit of more or less regular reading at home. He’s only just ventured onto ‘real’ books with proper vocabulary and sentence structure expected at his age. Before that he was only very sporadically reading jokey books like Treehouse series. Also Mr Gum, Tom Gates and Secret Diary of Pig. A bit of Kid Normal. Some David Walliams (Slime etc). He’s always been wiling to dip into non-fiction on favoured topics like space, coding, climate change.
He didn’t like Artemis Fowl at all or a historical book I just got him for his birthday.
In proper books he’s loved so far are Jennifer Bell’s Legendarium and Wonderscape and David Badiel Future Friend. These are the only traditional chapter books he has read independently.
Does anyone have any suggestions about what next after Jennifer Bell and Baddiel’s Future Friend? It seems like his favoured genre is non-scary sci fi with a time travel or computer gaming element! I want him to keep reading as he is loving it so much but also because I’m conscious the level of books they will come on to in secondary will require some reading stamina!