You want the boy to read? Try these.

There were two generations of Tom Swift. The ones above were the first. The ones below are part of the second generation.

My dad found my stack of these and threw them away as time-wasting junk. You know how good they must have been. He was too late. I’d already read them. All of them.

Smile. Certain you can find them out there on the interwebs. Do yourself and your kid a favor. Look for them.