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At that age, there's a lot of good books. If you don't mind Canadiana... The MacDonald Hall (aka Bruno and Boots) series from Gordon Korman are fun reads about school life for kids - Korman started the series when he was only a preteen, so they're relatable to young readers in a way that's missed by older authors. Farley Mowat has two "adventure" type books, Lost in the Barrens and The Curse of the Viking Grave, which are good quick reads even for adults, and The Dog Who Wouldn't Be and Owls in the Family are great for animal lovers. Moving on from CanCon, Choose Your Own Adventure books are a great time killers, and while the writing can be a bit uneven, the novelty of flipping pages shouldn't be underestimated in this digital age. If your son is more advanced, the Fighting Fantasy series are a light intro to RPGs - the Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone authored books are fun. Segue to the fantasy genre: Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series gets a lot of half-remembered thoughts due to the Disney Black Cauldron movie, but the books are much better and a "light" intro to heavier classic fantasy like Tolkien. It's Alexander's lesser-known books, from the Westmark series (think adventures in a fictional French Revolutionary setting), to stand-alones like The First Two Lives of Lukas Kasha that are hidden gems, often out of print. For historical fiction novels, the Magic Treehouse is a more recent series, maybe a little young for a 10 year old, but highly enjoyable. For a much older classic, the Eagle of the Ninth from Rosemary Sutcliff that was a book that got me hooked on Roman history. If you really want to get esoteric and your son can handle it, see if you can find any of the GA Henty books - they generally reflect the British Colonial attitudes and mores of the time, but they do bring history to life in a way that no other books can. And while guys tend to think the Black Stallion series is for girls... You think cowboys didn't bond with their steeds? Good reads and well written.
I almost forgot - comic books. You can deride them and poo poo them, but the more modern and non-North American graphic novels offer interesting and oft fascinating insights when you consider their origins. From stuff like Bone to Mouse Guard to Girl Genius, these offer awesome stories that should engage the imagination. If your kid can take it, Maus offers some sobering food for thought as a good intro to the Holocaust. And even older European comics like Tintin are great for reflecting on prevailing attitudes of the time (the Potemkin villages seen by Tintin in Soviet Russia, or the colonial attitudes of Tintin in the Congo, or even the international settlement in 1920's Shanghai in the Blue Lotus - bonus if your kid is learning a foreign language and is reading them in the original French). In this vein, it's super fascinating to read Lucky Luke or "Les Tunique Bleues" (The Bluecoats) - classic French Bande Dessinées that offer a Euro-viewpoint of the American Wild West and the American Civil War.
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Around that age I loved the redwall series
Ohh, I did too. Forgot about that one.
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I think maybe the brothers name was tom. It was written in the first person
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I’d recommend the Great Brain series. The main character is really likable and clever. Takes place a long time ago but it still holds up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain
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You’re thinking of the Willard Price series