JVA Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 My son is a voracious reader and I've about come to the end of my knowledge of good reading..... Walking through the shelves of YA - young adult- reading at the library on Tuesday, I was struck by how MUCH of it is oriented towards girls, vampires and death. It was pretty depressing.. If you have suggestions for action stories - with decent characters, please, mysteries, biographies, I'd all ears. :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) I'm going to assume he's read Ender's Game, Artemis Fowl etc. I know my boys liked Call of the Wild, and my oldest went through a period of grisly historical fiction. The Killer Angels (American Civil War) comes to mind, and I remember several WWII novels. I will ask him, as I only remember Schindler's List and The Book Theif. My younger ds liked The Last Mission (you might want to preread that one...) Has he read Jurassic Park and the like? That's a surprsingly good book. ;) War of the Worlds? The Lost World? Animal Farm? 1984? Chaim Potak novels? To Kill a Mockingbird? Edited May 26, 2011 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggirl Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Lori D posts some FABULOUS reading lists there. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) Hunger Games series - my 13ds who I have to make read keeps picking these up on his own. I loved them, too. ETA: There is death in them. Edited May 26, 2011 by True Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Is he up for classics? I kow some kids won't give them the time of day, but hey- you could try :) Twain is wonderful, if he hasn't already read him (Connecticut Yankee, Huckleberry Finn, etc) and my 13 yo son's favorite author. What about James Fenimore Cooper? Frekles by Stratton-Porter is also excellent. Oh! Rudyard Kipling,,, Kim is great... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMomof4 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I'm going to assume he's read Ender's Game, Artemis Fowl etc. I know my boys liked Call of the Wild, and my oldest went through a period of grisly historical fiction. The Killer Angels (American Civil War) comes to mind, and I remember several WWII novels. I will ask him, as I only remember Schindler's List and The Book Theif. My younger ds liked The Last Mission (you might want to preread that one...) Has he read Jurassic Park and the like? That's a surprsingly good book. ;) War of the Worlds? The Lost World? Animal Farm? 1984? Chaim Potak novels? To Kill a Mockingbird? If he likes historical fiction - Jeff Shaara has several really good books. I really enjoyed his WWII series. They weren't too graphic but you got a really good feel for the times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 If he likes Star Wars--the original trilogy, not the new stuff--he might enjoy the follow-up Thrawn Trilogy written by Timothy Zahn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jen3kids Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flanagan The EarthSea Cycle by Ursula K LeGuin Dragon Riders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey Discworld by Terry Pratchett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazakaal Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 My 13yo really enjoys Sherlock Holmes books right now. He's downloaded all of them on Kindle for free. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Hunger Games, Pendragon series by D.J. McHale, The Book Thief and I am Messenger by Mark Zusak, Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr (true faeries-a bit violent but really good strong characters), Artemis Fowl series (definitely boy oriented), Eragon series, Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. These are some of my YA favorites. My 11yo loved the Artemis Fowl series. I don't have any problems with sci-fi, paranormal stuff though. If you have moral objections to some of these issues, please preview before getting them for your ds. I Am Messenger and The Book Thief are absolutely brilliant, IMHO. They present strong characters with moral dilemas. The characters struggle and fight for what is right in an ambiguous world. I can't say enough good things about these books and their author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I'll add the Lost Years of Merlin series by T. A. Barron. Here's a link to the first book. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margo out of lurking Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Echoing Pendragon and Ranger's Apprentice series. How about Percy Jackson, and the other two new series by Rick Riordan? Chris D'Lacey's Last Dragon Chronicles series Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz Redwall series by Brian Jacques Secrets of the Immortal Flamel by Michael Scott And the series by Brandon Mull, and Bryan Davis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 How about.... Dracula Terry Pratchett's books (Discworld) -- already mentioned by a PP Thor Heyerdahl's books Walter Moers' books Into Thin Air (& other books on Nat'l Geographic's list of 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time) Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Everyone here has made wonderful suggestions. Has your son read the Little Britches series? My teen boys have been reading through those. jAlso, I recently found a good book review site for kids/teens: ratedreads.com and another one that is more geared to a Christian viewpoint: teenlitreviewblog.com HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandymom Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 My ds's love the Percy Jackson series and the Leven Thumps series. I also highly recommend Madeline L'Engle books. Where the Red Fern Grows is a great story too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 These may feel a bit young in reading level, but they're excellent plots and interesting characters: the Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale. Here's the first: http://www.amazon.com/Montmorency-Thief-Gentleman-Eleanor-Updale/dp/0439580358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306465779&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 How about.... Into Thin Air (& other books on Nat'l Geographic's list of 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time) I was going to mention # 53, The Long Walk. Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking up how to spell the author's name. :-) 53. The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz (1956) The author, a Polish cavalry officer, and six other men escaped from a Siberian prison camp in 1941, walked across Mongolia and the Gobi, through Tibet and the Himalaya, enduring incredible hardship all the way. Four of them made it to India and safety. It is a 3,000-mile (4,830-kilometer) epic, truly grand. Lyons Press, 1997. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooh bear Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 The Ascent of Rum Doodle It's about a group of bumbling British mountaineers trying to climb the slightly higher neighbor of Everest. Think of it as the written version of Monty Python's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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