Your child is ten, or twelve, or thirteen, and still hasn't found the book that turns them into a reader. That gets harder, not easier, with age, because now the fast, friendly books look babyish and the grown-up-looking ones look like homework. Every book on this shelf solves both problems at once: it reads quick, it looks its age, and it earns its place on an older child's desk. Start with whichever cover, sport, or story your child can't say no to; any single one can be the one that finally breaks the dry spell.
Every book here had to clear the same bar: fast enough that an unwilling older child finishes it, and grown-up enough on the outside that they're not embarrassed to be seen with it. That's the whole trick with this age, they've aged out of the easy hooks and into the pride of not wanting anything that looks young. So the shelf leans on sports (Ghost, The Crossover), on comedy with a real story under it (Restart, Ungifted), on a graphic novel that reads like a breeze and hits like a truck (New Kid), on a secret-magical-world adventure for the Percy Jackson crowd (Amari), and on one genuine page-turner about children in real danger (Refugee). Pick by what your child actually likes, a sport, a laugh, a comic, a world, and hand them that one first.