Cora Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Any ideas? He enjoys fiction but doesn't get the point of reading books for facts?! Call me old fashioned....Thanks... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
edanna Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Hi Cora, has he ever had one of the Ripley?s believe it or not books? There is some mind boggling stuff in there. https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/10369874696762231600?lsf=seller:2839496,store:1472536690526970026&prds=oid:12658829227644589180&q=ripley%27s+annual+2018&hl=en-gb&ei=rGRqWrnhB-XegAa1y5HACQ&lsft=gclid:EAIaIQobChMI_tmS9Z702AIVBLvtCh3yDASjEAQYAiABEgJc0_D_BwE Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edanna Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Or a Brian Cox book? Have no personal experience of these but good reviews https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonders-Universe-Brian-Cox/dp/0007395825 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
poch Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Is he too old for the Horrible History series? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjam Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Tim Peake has just recently published a book called Ask an Astronaut which is not specifically aimed at kids though there's a lot in it that kids would enjoy (including the perennial favourite: 'how do you go to the loo in space?'). I'm not particularly sciencey but I thought it was fascinating and very easy to dip in and out of. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Guinness book of records?? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cora Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 Thank you :) Might go for the Astronaut one...if he doesn't read it, I'd like to know about peeing in space!..oh dear just realised it's not just peeing is it!!! Will look at the Brian Cox ones too....Any good memoirs out there suitable? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 What about the Gerald Durrell books? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjam Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Gerald Durrell is a great idea. Also I loved James Herriott at that age.As for memoirs - what is he into? Loads of sports star/comedian/musician autobiographies out there. For history maybe something like one of the Forgotten Voices series about the first and second world wars - lots of moving personal stories to dip in and out of. For general inspirational memoir how about something like Malala Yousafzai's I Am Malala, Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, or Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom? On a completely different note, This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay is a recent bestseller that gives an insight into life as a junior doctor - very funny and quite rude! And for a fascinating overview of the whole of human civilisation, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is brilliant and not hard (though it makes you feel intelligent if you read it!). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cora Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/180813-wtd-recommendations-for-non-fiction-books-for-13yr-old-boys/#findComment-1215539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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