What are your 12/13 year old boys reading?

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DS, who is in second year at high school, has to do an hour of private reading at home and log the details for his English class. However he's not much of a reader and when I ask him what other kids his age are reading, he really can't answer me.

Anyone have any suggestions of what boys of this age are into book-wise? Thanks!

DS is in Y8. He has really enjoyed these recently:

the Alex Rider series
Katherine Rundell’s books
the Hunger Games triology
Goodnight Mr Tom

13-year-old DS loves Terry Pratchett (start with "The light fantastic" or "The colour of magic"). He also likes books by Christopher Paolini (eg "Eragon") and a couple of years ago read "Lord of the Rings".

Younger DS likes Lemony Snickett and books by Pittacus Lore (there are many). Also "the diary of Adrian Mole" and "mortal Engines".

Asterix
Dog Man
Amulet
books like this one from DK
What is he interested in? Does it specify it has to be fiction?

DS is 10 but advanced reader. He's reading

The Hunger Games
Percy Jackson / Trials of Apollo / other spin offs
Eragon trilogy

Thanks everyone. He's not really interested in reading overall, but used to like the Wimpy Kid books up until he started high school. He likes model trains, football, planes so maybe stories involving these, or nonfiction, might be good?

Train to impossible places series
Biggles
Silver Arrow
JimmButton
Highland Falcon
Pretty sure they'd do a train/plane/football version of that DK book I linked above.

My son has just turned 14, so hopefully that's OK.
He likes pokemon series
Tree house series
Just gotten into some Roald Dahl books
Also, I like the bad guys' books
And diary of a wimpy kid and goosebumps and Harry potter.

My 13 year old boy also read only Wimpy Kid books and anime until the summer holidays began when his interest just suddenly exploded.

He is reading;

• the Hunger Games
• The Hate you Give
• Agatha Christie (read Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express)
• The Hobbit (just started)
• Harry Potter

He has ADHD and so is reading several books at once. he will do a chapter here or there and put down then pick back up again. But he seems to get through them eventually. And cal talk about the storylines so it's going in.

I am a big reader and his lack of interest did worry me. But I did not push it just let him read what he wanted (which for ages was anime in all forms- mainly Demon Slayer) the he just spontaneously branched out. He also was required to read for Year 8 (He's Y9 now) and would read anime for that.

But yes I think let him read anything he is interested in- so if that is sports related or whatever (or even magazines! DS reads alot of magazines related to animals and keeping pets). Anything is great!

I have to say though- is it meant to be an hour of private reading daily? Because that's a big ask really for Y8. I'm not sure I could do that in one go- there are other things going on!

He might like the Railhead series by Philip Reeve, it's science fiction with trains that travel through space.

No it's an hour a week. An hour a day would be torture (for me!)

Holes by Louis Sachar - American and about boys. It's funny but has a great plot.

Tom Palmer is another author worth a try. He writes fiction which combines sport and history.

aaah! That's better. Otherwise it would be a guaranteed method to put children off for life! (I adore reading, but the bookclub i belong to is also a bit shaky on putting people off for life).

My 12 year old loves the following:

-How to Train your dragon
-Diary of a wimpy kid
-Artemis Fowl
-Alex Rider
-Dragonbreath
-Dogman (great as they are comic form style so can be read quickly)

I would recommend bringing him to a decent bookstore and letting him loose.

My 15 year old prefers factual historical books. He also started Stephen King, and a few graphic novels.

You could also let him loose in the library, linked with a hot choc and it could be acceptable 😜

For school - Macbeth.

Personal - Batman books.

i have twin boys just starting year nine, and one is a bit of reluctant reader, also likes trains and football funnily enough, he has worked his way through the ultimate football heroes books over the years and then started on his dads football biographies (I think he just finished the Peter Crouch one) he also liked the highland falcon series. He read Terry pratchetts Dodger as they were doing Oliver twist at school and I thought he might like it.

his brother loves reading but he has a tendency to give up if he’s not gripped within the first chapter, he’s currently reading the hunger games, before that he did Terry pratchett (I started him on the guards series and then the wizards) has also read the Percy Jackson series, got bored of Phillip Pullman and quite liked the murders most unladylike.

Did the teacher not give them a list of suggestions? English teachers usually know loads of more thought-provoking, better written books than the standard crowd pleasers (although our Yr 7 teacher has put a fair few crowd pleasers on the list as well!)