A book for an 11 year old boy?

Question

I need to find a book for my brother. He hates reading, but I love it, so my parents have put it up to me to change his mind. I think the problem is he hasn't found a book he likes, so I need one that would be good.

Answer 1

When our son was 12, he made a book list on my computer for me to share with the mom of another 12 year old. I never delete anything. He recommended:



Jacques, Brian: Redwall series. Animals that aren’t cute but are believable soldiers fighting for a cause, in one adventure after another. Very popular with boys of the right age. He’s read and reread every one.



Bakker, Robert T.: Raptor Red. A fictionalization of the life of a dinosaur. I read it aloud to my kids; we all liked it.



Paulsen, Gary: Hatchet; Brian’s Winter; The River. Three survivalist books about an urban boy struggling alone in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. The more able he becomes, the less interesting the story, but still worthwhile.



Beginning Sci-Fi:

Asimov, Isaac: Fantastic Voyage; I, Robot

Clarke, Arthur C.: 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey 2; 2061; 3001

Zahn, Timothy (Star Wars series is multi-authored, but my son only likes Zahn’s): Heir to the Empire; Dark Force Rising; The Last Command

Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Answer 2

Artemis Fowl

Harry Potter

Crispin

Warriors Series

Haddix Books

Answer 3

Sunrise Over Fallujah and Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers



Also The Sea of Monsters and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Answer 4

A good book i read is called Touching Spirit Bear. Check it out. It is really good. Another good book is Sparrow Hawk Red

Answer 5

What about Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson? That would be a fun book for him to read!

Answer 6

warriors is the series that got my brother to like reading

and percy Jackson is amazing.

for less fantasy, more mystery, try the authors Peg Kerhet( the stranger next door is one of the best) or Willo Roberts( try the kidnappers' or 'the Absolutely true story....'

Answer 7

OMG!! easiest question ever!1

He would love the Diray of a Wimpy Kid books!!

I <3 them too!!

Answer mine??

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Answer 8

Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddle

The Edge Chronicles Books:



Edge Chronicles Book 1:



Beyond the Deepwoods 13-year-old Twig’s wood troll mother tells Twig he isn’t really a wood troll and that she found him as a baby. Twig begins an adventurous and mysterious trek to discover who he really is and where he came from, taking him far beyond the deepwoods to discover his ultimate destiny.



Edge Chronicles Book 2:



Stormchaser picks up a few years after Twig’s adventures in Deepwoods. Forbidden to accompany his recently-discovered sky-pirate father on an adventure to save the famed sky city Sanctaphrax from breaking it’s mooring and taking off forever, Twig stows away aboard the skyship “Stormchaser” on a quest for more stormphrax and discovers the secret of phraxdust.



Edge Chronicles Book 3:



In Midnight Over Sanctaphrax, young sky-pirate Captain Twig has been sent on an important mission (by his father Cloud Wolf) to save his world the Edge by severing the Anchor Chain of the floating city Sanctaphrax before the Mother Storm arrives. The aftermath of the storm leaves Twig’s ship blown apart and his crew scattered, leading Twig on a quest to find his crew members and save his homeland, accompanied by a loser named Cowlquape.



Edge Chronicles Book 4



The Curse of the Gloamglozer goes back in time to tell the story of Twig’s parents, Quint and Maris. Quint is the teenage son of a sky pirate and apprentice to Maris’ father, Linius Pallitax, who is the Most High Academe of the floating city of Sanctaphrax. Quint and Maris must brave the mysteries and horrors of the stonecomb to learn the terrible secret that Linius has been hiding that may put Sanctaphrax at serious risk and set out to save the city.



Edge Chronicles Book 5



The Last of the Sky Pirates follows the adventures and dangerous mission of young Rook Barkwater, a young under-librarian who is destined to become a Librarian Knight, doing research on the secret gatherings of banderbears. Rook meets Captain Twig during his exciting adventures, beginning a whole new adventure to rescue Cowlquape from the prisons of the villainous Most High Guardian of Night.



Edge Chronicles Book 6



In Vox , the young knight librarian, Rook Barkwater, attempts to stop the dark might of the Most High Academe but is taken prisoner and held captive as a slave at the Palace of the Statues by tyrant Vox Verlix, after losing his Stormhornet sky-craft while on patrol. Here he meets Speegspeel the goblin servant, Amberfuce the ghost-waif, and Flambusia, Amberfuce’s nurse. Fans of Harry Potter will thoroughly enjoy the quick-changing storyline found in The Edge Chronicles books.



Edge Chronicles Book 7



Freeglader Undertown is destroyed by a massive storm, while the residents flee for their lives during a perilous trek to the Free Glades in hopes of building themselves a new home, which is threatened by Master of the Foundry Glades, Hemuel Spume. Rook temporarily loses his memory, Rook’s friend Xanth faces trial for previous crimes as a former Night Guardian, culminating into one of the most spectacular battle scenes so far seen in The Edge Chronicles.



Edge Chronicles Book 8



The Winter Knights In the great city floating on a rock called Sanctaphrax, Quintinius Verginix (AKA Quint or Cloud Wolf) enters the prestigious Knights Academy as the protégé of the Professor of Light during a time of great turmoil. Quint and his friends (the so-called “White Knights“) set off in their ships to save the great city of Sanctaphrax by retrieving precious stormphrax, without which the great rock would break loose of its moorings and be lost forever, in the most gripping, action-packed cliff-hanger so far in the edge series.



Edge Chronicles Book 9



Clash of the Sky Galleons As the last book of the Quint Saga, Quint and his father Wind Jackal are Sky Pirates in command of the sky ship The Galerider. Their adventures take them from The Edge to the Deepwoods fighting the weather, carnivorous Bloodoak trees, vicious Shryke warriors or various other mortal enemies, as they endeavor to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Wind Jackal’s judgment is flawed by his vengeful desire to capture Smeal, endangering the lives of his crew and his son Quint.



Edge Chronicles Book 10



Edge Chronicles Book 10 The Immortals The Immortals is the new Edge Chronicles book 10 and can now be ordered for its release on March 24, 2009. It’s sure to be just as exciting and chilling as each of The Edge Chronicles books have been thus far. off of this site :

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