Without knowing what your kid has read or likes, here’s some info about my kid:

My kid is currently reading:

• Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Zanib Mian’s Meet the Maliks series
• Zanib Mian’s Planet Omar series
• Marcus Rashford’s The Breakfast Club Adventures series

All of these have illustrations though. I feel Diary of a Wimpy kid has most of them, while rest have less, but they still have them. You should take a look to see if that’s acceptable.

Other books/series I have been recommended here, but haven’t started yet:

• R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps
• Brandon Sanderson’s Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians
• Eion Cofler’s Artemis Fowl
• B. B. Alston’s Supernatural Investigations

Beverly Cleary’s books, Roald Dahl’s books, Piers Anthony’s books, Stuart Little, the Redwall series, etc. I don’t remember what age I picked up Ray Bradbury’s books, but The Illustrated Man might be a place to start too.

Where the red Fern grows, Maus, Holes, series of unfortunate events, I think Bea Wolf looks good too but I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. Edit, Maus and Bea Wolf are both graphic novels so maybe not what you’re looking for. But Maus should definitely be required reading, especially now.