Books that your boys enjoy reading

My boys like the Chuck Black series and the Redwall books as well.  Also “Little Britches” by Ralph Moody was one of our favorite read-alouds.  He has written many other books also. 

One of our current favorite authors is Piet Prins.  We haven’t found any of his books at the library, but we have been able to purchase them inexpensively on-line.  Mostly we do these as read-alouds because the whole family loves them, including our 6 and 7 yo dd.  He has a series set in The Netherlands during WWII, another series set in Australia, another series about a dog…  We have just finished a book about an Eskimo boy.  I cannot recommend this author highly enough! 

Right now we’re reading “Hittite Warrior” by Joanne Williamson and my boys (13, 12 and 10) are loving that one as well! 

Just wanted to chime in to say my boys LOVED the Redwall books, too 🙂

Can someone comment on the Ralph Moody series?  I’ve heard that it’s a bit rough.  But what does that mean?  I want to listen to it for our read aloud (audio car) literature.  Would it be ok? 

I have one son, who loved the Jules Vernes books.  He is into science and science fiction.  My other son who loves natures and animals loved Where The Red Fern Grows.  I enjoyed that book myself.  When my second son who loves nature was about 12 he wasn’t much for reading other than Hunting magazines.  Then I started buying him the D.J. Dillon Adventure Series by Lee Roddy.  He anticipated each year the next 3 or 4 books I would buy him.  He really took to reading with these books.  These books are about a boy and his adventures with animals.  They also have good moral lessons.  I guess that is another reason I was glad he enjoyed these books.  There are 10 books in the series so far.

Great suggestions here!

TinaB, I had to chime about the D.J. Dillon Adventures series – I had never heard of these before; My 11yo would absolutely love these. Thanks for sharing. 

We loved Sign of the Beaver too! And DH reads the Little Britches series aloud, and everyone enjoys it.

My son is only 9, but a few of his favorites are Stone Fox, My Father’s Dragon, and he just finished Brighty of the Grand Canyon, and won’t stop talking about it…wants me to get it on audio so his 7 yr old brother can hear it (there’s also a movie, we learned through our audio search).

I didn’t read all the suggestions…but did anyone mention Narnia? 12 would probably be a great age for those.

I asked my son what were some of his favorite books and he was glad to give me a list. He is currently reading “Diary of a Wimpy kids series”  I was a little worried at first to let them read some of the things at the library. However, it has helped him read better. I ask the librarian about some of the details of the books. sometimes they are good at telling me if they are worthy of a “G” rating. 🙂 I noticed that he was drawlin’ into reading comic strip type of books. This was a good idea because he had to read sequencal. 🙂  There were books that he suggested. Starting with his favorite hero Batman. He loves Hank the cowdog series. Magic School buses, Lego magazines and books,(go to lego.com call and get the number to become a member. They will send you a free magazine every month.) he loves these magazines.  The 39 clues, The magic treehouse,  My other son likes Scooby-Doo, and How to train your dragon series. He also likes the Magic Treehouse series. I would say that they are reading above their level. I was worried that they wouldn’t ever like getting into reading as much as I like it. After he spent sometime in the older childrens section he picked out books that I thought he would have a hard time reading. However, he just asked me more questions. What the words meant or what they were. This was great because he was increasing his vocabulary without even knowing it. 🙂 He got to read the books he wanted to and he has learned so much. Just let him loose in the library. LOL Who would have thought of this idea! Bahaha.