A book that grips the imagination

It’s by Suzanne Collins who wrote Hunger Games. On Amazon £5.

My experience with my three AC is all three had access to books , visits to the library and I always read stories to them , I am an avid reader. Only one of our children devoured books as a child and still does! The other two don't read , although one will read nonfiction. I feel very sad about this. All three achieved good GCSEs in eng. Language and eng. literature. I have come to the conclusion that people either read or don't! If they don't they are missing so much, I now accept that two of my AC are just not readers ! I tried !!!!!

The ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ books by Rick Reardon are very popular with young teenagers. A popular modern take on Greek myth but action packed and very exciting. My GS read them all and enjoyed them, as he did Harry Potter. The ‘Alex Rider’ books are very good for teens too. I run a catch up group for Year 4 readers at a local school and personally wouldn’t recommend Diary of a Wimpy Kid or graphic novels (pictures with speech bubbles) if you want to improve his grasp of language. It may be a good idea, if you have a library near you, to talk to the librarian who may have recommendations.

Crikey I was always such an avid reader. Eating breakfast as a mid junior schooler I would read the words on the HP sauce bottle at the table. Me too! As it was printed then in French as well as English, also an opportunity to learn a foreign language😂!

Try the sports pages. A teacher working with an extremely reluctant writer found the only thing that interested him was football; he brought in the sports pages from his dad's newspaper, and they were concise, clear, well-written and engaged his attention.

‘Young Samurai’ by Chris Bradford full of adventure, excitement and martial arts. Set in Japan in the 17th century. Seven books in the series. Was Runner Up in The Red House Book Awards.

My granddaughter is 13 and is loving The Hunger Games