My little cousin who I adore loves stories but struggles to get into a book. With the holidays coming up, I want to get him a book as one of his presents – which I’m gonna read beforehand and slip little notes into the end of each chapter so it’s something we can to “together” even tho we only see each other in person once or twice a year.
Anything appropriate for a middle school reading level (or slightly above) would be hella appreciated, thank y’all so much!
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Here’s a little more about my cousin so we can help find the right book(s) for him:
He loves history, video games, soccer, & stories that make him laugh and/or where the stakes are high. He has ADHD (me too lol), he’s Sudanese and hella proud of it, and he loves action movies
by double_puntendre
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The Trapped in a Video Game series of books is really fun, especially for kids who love video games!
Also, some kids who have trouble getting into books and also have ADHD really enjoy graphic novels. If he’s into action movies, I’d try looking for some graphic novels novels around the characters he already enjoys. Lots of graphic novels now are long books with chapters.
*Holes* by Louis Sachar. I don’t know if you have seen the movie – it’s good but the book is so much better!
“Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.”
*New Kid* by Jerry Craft. It’s a comic book and I only read it after it was discussed on This American Life but I really enjoyed it.
“Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.
As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds—and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?”