Hi all!
So I'm trying to get my pre-teen unstuck from a reading rut.
He was a very avid reader, then he slowed down and now wants to start again but nothing sticks.
He recently read Hunger Games I and Maze Runner I and liked them and enjoyed them but the second book of each series was DNF.
I offered Cressida Cowell, Rick Riordan, Terry Pratchett but he says he's "not into fantasy" (my heart!!)
He also says he prefers teen characters at this moment.
So tomorrow we'll go to the library to get something else but if I can get some ideas here, it would be awesome!
Thanks!!
by nicesl
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Robert Heinleins ‘juveniles’. Science fiction classics. Especially ‘Have Space Suit, Will Travel’.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness though it is sci/fi Funny, teen oriented
The Martian by Andy Weir (there’s a classroom edition that has some of the language cleaned up and replaced with milder wording).
the chocolate war-cormier
house of the scorpion-farmer
going bovine-bray
Holes by Louis Sachar. So good.
Ender’s Game
*My Side of the Mountain* by Jean Craighead George
*Empire of the Sun* by JG Ballard (despite the author, this is not science fiction — it’s a YA coming of age story based somewhat on Ballard’s experiences as a kid in China during WWII)
*The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian* by Sherman Alexie
Scythe, by Neal Shusterman
The dark elf trilogy and related books were a great series I enjoyed around then, by RA Salvatore. High adventure, high fantasy in D&D setting
Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines series. It’s far future steampunk sci-fi, with teenage protagonists, well-drawn characters, and really cool world building.
Mark Oshiro’s books.
Neal Shusterman writes science fiction.
Charlie Jane Anders’s Victories Greater Than Death.
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Homeland, and For the Win.
Also consider The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Technically adult, but nothing too much for a 13 year old.