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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like he is a strong reader.  I would suggest Modesitt’s Magic of Recluse series.  My kids like them a great deal.  From a parent view:  No sex though the main characters do have love interests - they do not play a huge role in any of the books.  Food probably has the same level of importance.  No graphic violence either.  Lots of battles and fights but no gory details.  The book titled The Magic of Recluse is the first one, but then you can skip around a bit if he liked it.  The Magic Engineer and The Colors of White are good.  My boys like Modesitt and Sandersen.  God forbid they (and I) read The Wheel of Time series as well.  No parental concern issues with that series either though certainly repetitive.  It might be a required right of passage if he is going to read the alternative world sci-fi stuff.

I also push to good readers the Hornblower series.  Historical fiction.  Again no sex and the frequent battles do not emphasize gory details though enough there to keep a youngish reader interested.  Start with Midshipman Hornblower and then they run in order by time (throughly oddly they were not written in sequence with the character’s age).   If he likes it then as he gets older he can get into the Aubrey/Maturin books which also are pg-13 in content but much more dense and historically “accurate”.

You also might try some non-fiction.  The McCoullagh book on The Wright Brothers is great and I can say that I for one did not know much at all beyond the basics.  (And I’m not a big McCoullagh fan - his Truman book was painful.)  Also, Stephen Ambrose’s WWII books are good reading.  He could read Band of Brothers as a good intro.

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