My 10yr old LOVES these books! He does like reading often, and for the past couple years has been tied up in dogman and dork diaries and other similars of what I find to be poor character. I tend to agree with the responses to situations better in this Middle School series than the others mentioned, and boy loved the insight to what middle school may or may not offer for him next year. He’s read the series twice over already in the past 3 months, and are definitely his books of choice when we’re going out for a while and needs a distraction. We just ordered the Word of Mouse book that Patterson has opened the door to at the end of one of these books; he’s so excited to continue with Patterson’s writings!