Book suggestions for 13 year old DS and DH to read together

[Anonymous]

Try non fiction. My 11 yr old DS really likes the Freakonomics books.

[Anonymous]

I think there's a God biography of Jackie Robinson.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, good biography, not God.

[Anonymous]

My Side of the Mountain

[Anonymous]

bill bryson, a walk in the woods

I think the idea of reading books then comparing with the movie sounds fun, how about Michael Lewis, Moneyball and Bissinger, Friday Night Lights?

[Anonymous]

Check out the John R. Tunis books. I think they're all baseball focused.

[Anonymous]

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, and sequels.

[Anonymous]

Wonder

[Anonymous]

Here are some good nonfiction books that could connect.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/encouraging-teenagers-to-read-by-choosing-books-from-the-non-y-a-shelves/


http://www.jessicalahey.com/comingofageinthemiddle/yabooklist

[Anonymous]

Also consider:

Into the woods or anything by Kraukaur

MausI The Graphic Novel

World War Z is an interesting mixture of sci-fi written in a nonfiction like style.

[Anonymous]

This is from DeMatha's summer reading list but there are some good suggestions here

Freshmen
Black Ice (novel) Andrew Lane
White Fang (novel) Jack London
Luka and the Fire of Life (novel) Salman Rushdie
Maus, Vol. 1 & 2: A Survivor’s Tale (graphic) Art Spiegelman
The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Sophomores
Shoeless Joe (novel) W.P. Kinsella
*Black Like Me (non-fiction) John Griffin
The Real All Americans (non-fiction) Sally Jenkins
This Boy’s Life (memoir) Tobias Wolff
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (graphic) Lila Quintero Weaver

Juniors
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience Laura Hillenbrand
and Redemption (non-fiction)
How Soccer Explains the World (non-fiction) Franklin Foer
The Boys in the Boat (non-fiction) Daniel James Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (novel) Mark Haddon
Defending Jacob (novel) William Landay

Seniors
**Great Expectations (novel) Charles Dickens
Game of Thrones (novel) George R.R. Martin
The Way Home (novel) George Pelecanos
Just Mercy (non-fiction) Bryan Stevenson
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (non-fiction) Mike Brown
Red Rising Pierce Brown

[Anonymous]

Howard Bryant Legend series on sports

[Anonymous]

Where the Red Fern Grows
Watership Down
Old Man and the Sea

[Anonymous]

To Build a Fire

[Anonymous]

There's a YA version of the book Unbroken by L. Hillenbrand that my 7th grader loved. I think the adult book is pretty brutal in parts. Maybe your DH could read the original and your DS the YA version? My teen also loves anything by Bill Bryson.

Other books that have gone over well here:

The Da Vinci Code
The Only Game in Town:Sportswriting from the New Yorker
Leviathan by S. Westerfeld
Trash by A. Mulligan
Bomb by S. Sheinkin
Tangerine by E. Bloor
Hoot by C. Hiaasen