What would be a good book for a 12-year old boy to read?
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"The Edge Chronicles" are also another fantastic series about sky pirates. There are nine books in the series at this time, and every child I know that has read them, couldn't put them down.
Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book" is a great book for both boys and girls around that age, about a little boy who is raised in a cemetery by the ghosts.
There is also the "Septimus Heap" series, similar to Harry Potter, but possibly more age appropriate, about a seventh son of a seventh son who discovers he is meant to be a magic user.
"Artemis Fowl" is also really popular among the boys in that age group. It features a boy genius who also happens to be a criminal mastermind.
The "Alex Rider Adventures" are about a little boy spy. The main character has been compared to James Bond, only on a youth scale.
"The Starcatchers" Trilogy is a prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan books, full of action and adventure.
All of those, except for the Gaiman book, are full series, which might be a good place to start. Once he is interested in the first book, he'll want to go on and find out what awaits in the next. Good luck!
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M$I can't answer this question unless I know more about your child than his age and sex. What does he like to do? What is he interested in? You want to find a book that he is interested in, if you want him to enjoy reading. When I had reading time at school, I didn't care what the students read--it could be a magazine, as long as they were READING. Get them to enjoy reading, then worry about the quality. If you try to reverse it, they'll end up hating to read.
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M$He said that it greatly depicts the struggle of fitting in. It shows the negativity of being stereotyped and the way people react to being pressured into a certain group or gang. He told me that once he picked the book up and starting reading, he found it hard to put down.
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Catcher in the Rye
A Tale of Two Cities
The Hobbit
Ender's Game
Animal Farm
Perhaps those are a little more 13/14 years old?
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Yes, for the little bit older. The boy recently got the reading bug. Have to keep him going before we hit him with the 'classics'
no. no. no. Enders Game, maybe. Tale of Two Cities was a book in my AP English Literature class in the 11th grade. That would put him off reading forever. It is a great book, but not for a child, and especially one who doesn't read a lot. It is best to start with something like the Olympians, or even something as simple as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or Harry Potter. At this stage, it is best to get kids interested in reading itself, they can get to the more advanced stuff once they are ready and realize how great reading is :)
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