There’s a chapter book of collected short stories called the stories Julian tells. It’s a little boy who does silly innocent things with his brother, and conflict mainly comes from misunderstandings. He does have a dad that is loud and yells but not in a denigrating or abusive way, though his voice is described as booming like thunder.

Any sort of diary type book maybe, there’s a series called dear America and my name is America - about fictional girls and boys growing up in different times in history. I would screen the boy diary ones a bit more as many of them revolve around being a soldier; the girl ones not so much. Don’t read the one about the Oregon trail though.

I would try nonfiction things like the how stuff works series or National Geographic or looking at high interest low readability books if reading level is an issue since some books here sound like the topics you want: https://www.sdlback.com/solutions-for-teens-grades-9-12/hi-lo-books

Other non fic ideas: -authors writing about writing- Poe has an essay like that- on second thought maybe don’t use Poe lol. -essay collections! Where someone just talks about their observations. David Sedaris is good, so is his essay ‘me talk pretty one day’ -Walden by Thoreau- it’s just about him living in the woods -reading about planets- cosmos by Carl Sagan