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