My son just finished reading The Red Badge of Courage. He mentions it several times a day, even tried to get me to read it. I grumbled that it was indeed good but I was familiar with it.
Regroup here: this is what I've wanted for several years, but he's not interested in my choices. So I'm halfway through, it's a quick read after all.
Does anybody have a suggestion for his next book? He (currently) says he likes war stories.
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The Lemony Snickets series of books. My kids loved them.
suppose johnny got his gun won't work.
there's alway heinlein, most of sf, it seems
Not a war story, but any of the various Sherlock Holmes stories seem like a good read for teens.
I agree with Yobro: Johnny Got His Gun
Also
All Quiet on the Western Front
War and Peace
Rifles for Watie (Newbery winner)
Heinlein - Star Ship Trooper
Rand - The Virtue of Selfishness.
Steinbeck - The Pearl
Orwell - Animal Farm
Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea
He's in high school, right, Ken? Those should all go down well.
If you're going the sci-fi route but still with war theme--
Ender's Game and sequels. (this was big with teen boys here about 2 or 3 years ago).
Dune
Foundation (used to be trilogy, but I'm not sure how many there are now).
Much more recent-and totally freaky (I'd recommend you read this, Ken) is FEED.
On the slightly sweet, but still YA, ecology route--Hoot. (by Hiaasen)
Any thing by Chris Crutcher (sports themes, but very edgy).
"Pebbles in the sky" by Heinlein. I think the library has it. Sort of neat, combines young kids in a teleportation field trip gone wrong. Plenty of rough stuff, but with a lesson.
I'm starting the lad on "the secret history of Ghengis Khan" as my ambition for him is to be absolute ruler of a good slice of the known world.
I probably should have mentioned he's in the sixth grade, so some of the books are too adult for him. My bad. (Johnny Got His Gun is too adult for me.)
A lot of good suggestions, tho. Given my track record, I'll have him look them over.
Thanks, and if you think of others...
OH, 6th grade huh...then I suggest The Joy of Sex and a subscription to Playboy if you want to stay ahead of the learning curve. (:-))
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