what are your nearly 12 year old and 9 yr old boys reading?

[mimsum]

my mum wants to get my boys a book each as a little pre-xmas present - what are your boys reading and enjoying? both mine are voracious readers and when I was in Waterstones yesterday I was struggling to find something they hadn't read and would enjoy

recent hits for the nearly 12 year old have been Dark Materials, both Skullduggery Pleasant, all Artemis Fowl, all Wolf Brother, everything by Cornelia Funke (Dragonrider, Inkspell trilogy etc), Eragon trilogy, Spartan warrior series

9 year old has also read most of the above except I think Phillip Pullman's a bit old for him

any good recommendations? neither likes horror so no vampires or anything remotely girly

Yes, E B is the 'Charlotte's Web' chap who also wrote 'Stuart Little'. DS2 is very keen on anthropomorphised animals. But we do have my copy of 'The Sword in the Stone' waiting for evening reading time. ( We enjoyed an audiotape of Roger Lancelyn Green's retellings of the Arthurian legends repeatedly in France this summer).

'Truckers' is T Pratchett and it's been being read for weeks; he's only read one other, 'Maurice and his Amazing Educated Rodents', but he found that really funny.

He has 11+ interviews coming up next week so I want him to be able to remember what's happening in the book he's currently reading! I keep telling him to give it up....