What books would you give to an 11 year old boy?I liked Animorphs and A Wrinkle in Time when I was around that age. What do you guys recommend?
>>25233329Hatchet is a decent book. The sequels aren't bad eitherSolidly masculine and sensitive all at once
>>25233329i read don quixote when i was 12
>>25233329>>25233333I got real into Gary Paulsen in elementary school. He 2 sequels to Hatchet and also a fuiuristic dystope where commie Ruskies take over America, and one freedom-loving teenager has to lead the American revolution against them. Very Red Dawn, very based. Anyway, he lived in Alaska and raised dogs for the Iditarod, and was a vegan because his dogs taught him that animals are people too.
>>25233329>Animorphsin retrospect this was just woke globohomo feminist dyke vegan proaganda
>>25233329>book cover I'll see all throughout grade school without ever reading award
>>25233329Redwall
Where a red fern growsWhen legends dieEnder's Game I could probably list 1000.
>>25233357>never read hatchetGet off my board thirdie
>>25233382I read Ender's Game but not the other two
>>25233329Heinlein was my main at that age. Also the hatchet squeals are shit, Paulsen could have written new stories with a similar theme and told both stories instead we get bullshit hatchet retreads that are less engaging than marvel multiverse. My kids endlessly derided both sequels premises. Also eating an 800lb moose in a few days is beyond stupid no matter how much meat you leave on your wings.
lol the dude on the cover looks like thats balding british dude who does those bad skits wtf is his name quentin something
>>25233329I loved the Name of the Rose at that age, but I was a bit of a dweeb. The Count of Monte Cristo was another book I loved, and that one has a more universal appeal. Also get him fantasy+sci-fi. Tolkien, Herbert, Sanderson, boys love that shit.
White Fang Call of the Wild
>>25233329when I was 8-9 I liked Harry Potter, Narnia and Jules Verne.
Blood Meridian
>>25234174Kek.
>>25233329The Darkangel, by Meredith Ann PierceBelow the Root, by Zilpha SnyderSilmarillion, by Tolkien
>>25233329Depends upon his linguistic ability.For absolute entry level reading, something like Bionicle or Animorphs would be ideal. Most books written at this level would be a chore for a 10-year-old boy, not because of the language, but rather the content (Magic Tree House and the like).If he's more linguistically advanced, if he's able to decipher longer sentences already, there are a lot of good fantasy novels he can read straight-away. The Hobbit, Chronicles of Prydain, Earthsea, Redwall; he might even be receptive to some shorter heroic poems like Beowulf.
>>25233329The Chronicles of Prydain. All of my friends and I loved those books when we were that age. Depending on his reading level and attention span, you could also try shorter stories like the Hardy Boys books or Hank the Cowdog books.
>>25233329I liked the first and last book of this as a kid. Didn't really care for the middle books.
This book was really kino and is the real one I would recommend.
This book has an anti-racism theme that feels outdated now that we know the left went full mask off about not wanting colorblindness, but I do think it instills the importance of owning property, and I appreciated the old-timey work our protagonist engages in to try and purchase land.
>>25233329My Side of the Mountain changed my life and my view of books at a young age
>>25234699i liked this one a lot
>>25233329He's gonna love this
>>25233388I skipped YA, midwit.
>>25233329I read as many Goosebumps books as I could when I was youngerFear StreetChoose Your Own Adventure and the Goosebumps CYOAsTreasure IslandHatchetTransall SagaThe HobbitBig Friendly GiantThe Hardy BoysThinking about it now, I read a fuckton more books then than I do now.
>>25233329Harris and Me is another Paulsen book, and it's fucking hilarious. It's about this kid whose drunkard parents die or abandon him, I forget, and he ends up going to live with relatives who are rural farmers. their son, Harris, is a wild little redneck bastard and they get into all kinds of shit. I read it in the 4th grade and it's always been a favorite of my childhood.there's also the "yesterday's classics" series that has a lot of based stuff for young boys.
>>25234970I second Treasure Island and the Hobbit, too.I loved Goosebumps, and Fear Street, too. Fear Street tried too hard, though, part of Stein's charm in Goosebumps was the goofiness and absurdity of it all.
>>25234705Looking back, every book I was forced to read in elementary school up until high school was basically negro, feminist or Jewish propaganda. Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold, Night by Elie Wiesel, The Cay by Theodore Taylor, Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman..
>>25233353Here's a (you)
>>25234995>Fear Street tried too hard, thoughIt was obviously an attempt to make a kind of pulp horror that would appeal to girls more though. It made perfect sense from a marketing perspective.
>>25235067I'm unironically right though. There's a scene when Tobias' mom throws a softball in front of Ax's older brother (Tobias' father), and it goes on for like a page about how impressive the athleticism of this softball dyke is to the alien, because andalites have weak, almost vestigial arms. Also, Cassie is a black woman and Tobias is a jew and when they all went back in time they saw Hitler and Rachel wanted to kill him. There are many, many other examples. Animorphs was proto-wokeslop and your beloved childhook book fairs were just another jewish psyop.
Cover is lame, but we read this in school and I enjoyed the cool lumberjack setting. It was probably 4th grade we read this, so maybe it is a bit young for an 11 year old.
>>25235465>getting filtered by millennial children's booksZoomie plz
>>25234793Move over lads, we've got a true intellectual here. The first book he ever read was Ulysses.
>>25233333Quints
>>25233329I remember reading this at school in 6th grade - it was my first taste of magical realism. I don't remember a lot of what I read around that time but I still remember Skellig so it must have had something going for it.
>>25233329Might be too /co/ but may as well. Any of them really, I think the geopolitical intrigue is just enough that I'd edge it in the /lit/ direction. This one just happens to be a favorite
>>25233329Go Ask Alice
