Can anyone recommend any good books for 11 year old boys?

Question

Can anyone recommend any good books for 11 year old boys?

Answer 1

Justine by the Marquis de Sade.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

Answer 2

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Answer 3

Mark Twain Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn,  Defoe Robinson Crusoe, Alexandre Dumas The three musketeers

Answer 4

Lord of the Rings!!

Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Lad & The Lion, John Carter of Mars series, the early Tarzan books (not the ones at the end where he's going around with ant people and mess, Burroughs was writing those for profit and they aren't that good.  The first 5 books are all he wrote because he wanted to, and those are the best), and The Moon Men and The Moon Maid.  Yes, Burroughs wrote a long time ago but he was a modern writer as far as the language goes, one of the first truly modern novelists, so it won't be like trying to get him to plow through H. Rider Haggard, who wrote excellent stories (Allan Quartermain series) but not in completely modern language.

A lot of the classics are good for this age - Treasure Island, Three Musketeers, for example - but don't get the illustrated, heavily edited versions.  Just go ahead and get the real, unabridged book - I find them all the time for less than $1 in paperback.  These books are classics because the stories stand up.

The Hardy Boys series

Lemony Snicket series, nice and dark with lovely sarcasm. :)

My brother used to devour "Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Gallery" which was a lot of short stories about monsters, but I don't know if you can find that in print even any more.  Also anything by Jack London - Call of the Wild, yes, but also his short stories and such.

Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon was actually written for his child, and it's a good story with plenty of action, intrigue, and magic.  11 is much, much too young for anything else of his though the story does tie in actually with some of his others later, the Gunslinger series and the Stand in particular.

Library card is great for a kid this age, they are old enough to be reasonably responsible about checkout and returns.

However, you should keep an eye on your children's book selections.  Although an advanced reader can handle the vocabulary of many adult books, sometimes the concepts can still be scary or confusing.

Answer 5

My son just turned 12, and in the past year has really started reading all the time,

He has been reading Piers Anthony, just be aware that there is some adult content, sexual innuendos in many of the books. I think they're perfect though for introducting the subject. He loves the immortality series by PA. He also loves Heinlein books, nearly all of the old scifi books, but they do tend to have sexual content, implications and outdated chauvinism.

He has of course read, Eragon and the Harry Potter books, he also loves Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy. Roald Dahl is nearly always good for a 'short snack' of humorous reading, and there's always a lesson to be learned.

The City of Ember, People of Ember and The Prophet of Yonwood by Duprau are really great, and so is the Redwall series (something like ten books, all great) by Brian Jacques. Inkspell and Inkheart by Funke is good too. Chronicles of Narnia series, and Series of Unfortunate Events.

For more classics, Josh has read Red Badge of Courage, Bridge to Terebithia, Little Men, and Through the Looking Glass (if you get the original it is quite cool, he just read that a few months ago). White's original Sword in the Stone, Treasure Island, Stoker's Dracula, Dicken's Oliver Twist, and the original Frankenstein. He's read Wells, and Verne, The Time Machine is one of his favorites.

Answer 6

there is an author named Darren Shan. he has a written a series of books about vampires , the first one being called Cirque Du Freak, it is written in a simplistic style but includes all the elements required to maintain interest, horror, relationships, action, i read with my class of students each year, and they all love the story and many go on to borrow or buy the complete series (11 books)  so they can find out what happens to the main character. this author has also written a new series i think about werewolves or demons, i havent read but students have reviewed very favourably

Answer 7

Brat Farar.

Answer 8

Why not take them to the library and let them choose their own. At 11 they will have their own taste and preferences.

Answer 9

Try the Xanth series by piers anthony. Start with the first ones, they're great, and perfect for a 11y/o boy.

Answer 10

My son liked Monkey by Jeff Stone. It's the first of five books, and it is full of action. He liked Eragon, and Eldefest, the second book.. both written by Christopher Paolini {he wrote this book when he graduated from high school at the age of 15} and then of course all the Harry Potter books. The best way to find the most popular or best selling books for young kids,is to log on to Barnes and Noble, Powell Books, B Dalton, Amazon.com etc. {they all have .com web addresses }and see what the Large book stores across  the U.S. are all consistently selling both in paper and I'd look at the audio books for the young adults to, it is increasing in popularity.

Answer 11

The new Young Bond books by Charlie Higson are supposed to be good. Silverfin is one of them. Also the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz.

Answer 12

Playboy

Escort

Men Only

Razzle

Answer 13

"Where the red fern grows"

"old yeller"

"strong but stiff"

Answer 14

the harry potter series by joanne kathleen rowling. i've been reading this series for five years now, done a lot of research on jk rowling, and am an avid fan even at the age of 19. this series has gotten me to read more, even write more. a lot of debate has even been going on surrounding the series, questioning if the books promote witchcraft. they do not. the series is purely fictional, and promotes great values including the war over good vs evil. the great thing about these books is that children can grow up with the books, as harry and his friends grow up as well. anyone who says the series is awful and should be pulled from all bookshelves needs to do their research. i can give you my word that these books are amazing. they inspire children to use their imaginations along with their heads.

if you have any further questions, please email me. i would love to give you more information if you would like.

Answer 15

Amazon.com has 142,000+ titles for kids ages 9-12!

Have a look: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_837...

I used amazon.com to start a library for my kids. Thier recommendations are good, they have great sales, and often times they ship for FREE.

On a more personal note, we love the Harry Potter books. Any book that gets kids interested in reading 700+ pages is great! We know our kids are smart enough to realize it's fiction and we're not worried about their wanting to dabble in the dark arts because of a series of books. I read them first and they were fantastic. Most adults don't read 700+ page books, but with this series your kids will. Following the series in order starting with book one is what we did, and I bought them one at a time.

Best of luck to you!

Answer 16

try THE BATTLE OF JERICHO its a very good book that will teach all kids not just boys that you should follow your first mind an its really good for boys because its dealing with a group of boys trying to prove themselves of being worthy to be apart of another group but the ways they must prove this is wrong but they find out too late. Its a great book I'll recommend this for anybody i think he'll learn a lot from it while reading a good book!!!



here's the book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/06898423...

Answer 17

My son is 11 and he love's the horrible science books.  You also get Horrible history books and there is quite alot of them.  Try ebay for second hand ones.

Answer 18

Harry Potter.Iused to read The 3 investigators +the Secret Seven