Read aloud for 11 and 13 year old boys

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Not that boys can’t like books with female main characters, but I’ve found it hard to find fiction with boy characters that’s not adventure/survival, sports, or fantasy. Both of these books were rare and great exceptions!

My boys really liked the Penderwicks series

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Look up on YouTube “The BEST classic books for kids and teenagers (7-16)” by Benjamin’s English.

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We had good success with Agatha Christie recently, though the books are somewhat formulaic, which means you probably wouldn't want to do one after another. But I highly recommend - the vocabulary is just challenging enough that I think it has some brain stretching effects.

Other options: The Westing Game, Enders Game, Return to Sender (better as an audio book than read-aloud). My kids loved Hitchhiker and we read all of the (so, so many) books.

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Anonymous wrote:We had good success with Agatha Christie recently, though the books are somewhat formulaic, which means you probably wouldn't want to do one after another. But I highly recommend - the vocabulary is just challenging enough that I think it has some brain stretching effects.

Other options: The Westing Game, Enders Game, Return to Sender (better as an audio book than read-aloud). My kids loved Hitchhiker and we read all of the (so, so many) books.

+1 Westing Game - fabulous book

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Anonymous wrote:Makes me happy that parents still read to their teens/tweens.

my almost 10 year old still likes being read to. I actually asked her last night when we could stop and said “ in a thousand years” … lol

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Echoing many of the ones mentioned, and would add A Walk in the Woods or Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson. Irreverent at times and there were a few swears, but caught both of their attention.

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Wait. You still read aloud to your kids? I’d love it if my boys would sit and listen but that stopped around 6 or 7.

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Has anyone mentioned Hatchet? Great story.

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Sherlock holmes is good but also other by Conan Doyle
Enders Game
I robot and Foundation series by Aasimov
Dune

Im a woman but devoured scifi when i was that age.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. You still read aloud to your kids? I’d love it if my boys would sit and listen but that stopped around 6 or 7.

My kids were read to nightly until about 9-10 when they didn't want it anymore. However, I recently started reading to my 16 year old DD to help with her insomnia - she was scrolling tic tok at night & it was affecting her mental health and ability to sleep. I'm shocked she accepted this solution but we are both loving it. The only downside is that she needs the book to be on the boring side.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. You still read aloud to your kids? I’d love it if my boys would sit and listen but that stopped around 6 or 7.

I read to my kids for years, but it wasn’t a question of them sitting still. Sometimes they would, but sometimes they’d play quietly while I read, or I’d read to them while they ate a snack or even supper.

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Watership Down, Hatchet.

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Taking notes.

My 11yo has recently loved listening to Hatchet, Ender's Game, Bud not Buddy, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Tuck Everlasting, Sign of the Beaver, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Bail E. Frankwiler, Where the Red Fern Grows, Holes and we're listening to Boys on the Boat now.

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Anonymous wrote:Taking notes.

My 11yo has recently loved listening to Hatchet, Ender's Game, Bud not Buddy, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Tuck Everlasting, Sign of the Beaver, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Bail E. Frankwiler, Where the Red Fern Grows, Holes and we're listening to Boys on the Boat now.

What do you mean listening?

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The Three Investigators books, sp. Green Ghost.
Homer Price
Old Yeller
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Robert Burch books
Encyclopedia Brown
The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden