Books for a 9 year old boy who has done wimpy kid

[AnzoneioBanderas]

wont do harry plopper
likes adiran mole
liked horrid henry
have read together hitler and pink rabbit and good night mr tom
likes a bit of history
NOT dragons etc

My 9 year-old boy is reading "just Henry" by Michelle Magorian and is completely gripped.

I love it too

Mine went from Horrid Henry to Mr Gum.

This one is excellent for boys who liked wimpy kid

www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Case-Origami-Yoda/dp/0810984253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275921569&s r=8-1

Diana Wynne Jones is usually fun. Unless he totally hates any and all magic.

Kevin Crossley Holland - The Seeing Stone series.
Philip Pullman- Clockwork etc (he wrote quite a lot of good stuff before the Northern Lights trilogy - after which (imo) he lost the plot...)
T H WHite- The Sword in the Stone

If I were you I would get hold of the Ultimate Children's Book guide- very useful.

DS2 has read the first volume of the Twig trilogy of the Edge Chronicles and is now on the secon. He's also just read Skulduggery Pleasant which he thought was v. funny - but again, if yours hates fantasy and magic these will be non-starters.

I always seem to recommend Louis Sacher in these circumstances.... He's best known for Holes, which might be a bit too old; Marvin Redpost series is good, or the Wayside School series might be just right, or Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, or Someday Angeline.

DS also enjoyed lots of Antony Horowitz at that age, and the Joshua Doder series of books starting with A Dog Called Grk.

groosham grange by horowitz

holes deffo too old
are on i am david atm

ds 9 is reading "just Henry" by Michelle Magorian. I thought that it might be a bit beyond him but he is completely gripped. I read some of it out loud to him and I think it wonderful too.

I can highly recommend Young Sherlock Holmes - Death Cloud by Andrew Lane - it's about Sherlock when he was 14 and how he started solving mysteries and turned out the way he did - my son read it and wouldn't put it down!!

Apparently there are at least two more to come too.

Stephen Davies' Hacking Timbuktu - he's a friend of mine, but I don't think I'm biased, they are great adventure stories written for boys.