My son is a very good reader but he needs some encouragement to step out of his reading comfort zone as he is very much a creature of habit!
He loves the captain underpants/wimpy kid series but if really like him to start reading some stuff with slightly more mature storylines – he has a box set of Sherlock Holmes which he likes a lot and had enjoyed the impossible creatures book.
I’m pretty out of touch with young literature and I think most of the things I read at his age he’d find too girly and/or old fashioned so please spam me with your suggestions!!
He starts secondary school in the autumn so I’d love to get him in the habit of reading some deeper texts!
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For some fun, modern, fantasy for that age range, check out **Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians** by Brandon Sanderson.
If you think he might enjoy a classic, check out **The Hobbit** by JRR Tolkien. A beautifully-written adventure, with great characters, lots of humor, action, and creative world building. It holds up super well! I’d say it *does* start off a little slow, but that’s really only for like the first chapter, once you’re past that and they’ve set out on the journey, it really doesn’t let up!