Congrats, Audrey on your reading accomplishment!

I didn't know Alex had been pulled into a higher reading group either till he came home and told me he was reading a play with some other students: Rumpelstiltskin.

What are our other moppets/children accomplishing?

Nick is reading Box Car Children #2. He came back to it after reading joke books and Flat Stanley. Let's see what he comes home with today after media center time!

Alex read a Pokemon level book to me last night and has been re-reading favorites.

Kate's reading Harry Potter #3. She's almost done (She's read #2 & 3 in about a week.) and asked me to pick up #4 for her.

Anyone have any suggestions where I should point her after she's done with this series? She loved Lemony Snickett and she likes Harry Potter. She read some Lloyd Alexander and liked some stuff and didn't like other stuff. She's so tough to find books that are challenging enough, while having topics age-appropriate...and interesting enough for her. She usually (left to her own devices) picks books that are way too easy, probably because they ARE easy and the topics are more appropriate and interesting to her. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Has she read the Sammy Keyes series? They are probably easier to read than Harry Potter (at least the later HP books) but I think they are at about a 5th grade reading level. They are mysteries. Kayleigh loves them (even though they are way below her reading level.) She says that even though they are easy pretty quick reads for her, there are little clues in there that aren't necessarily easy to find so she likes figuring those out.

I'm running out of books for Matt as well. He likes to read series books, but not into the fantasy type stuff that is popular right now or the Diary of a Wimpy kid kind of stuff. I was at the library looking for books for him yesterday and it just seemed like so many of the "new" books are just stuff I'd really rather have him not read...kind of disrespectful talk/topics/character, I guess. Hard to explain.


ETA: Forgot to post what my kids are reading. LOL

Kayleigh is finishing up the 5th Harry Potter book. Matt is finishing up his last Shredderman book. I think "The (Worst) Best School Year Ever" (by the author of the (Worst) Best Christmas Pageant Ever) is up next on his pile, I believe.

thanks Peggy! and Kristina, ITA. Ellen's books . . . the subjects she likes (and are appropriate) she blows through. the books at her level not always ok.

she's reading a book about a group of high school friends right now that she picked up at the library book sale this weekend. level is good for her, but I had to really check it out for appropriateness (it's pretty benign luckily)

I was thinking about trying the 39 clue series, anyone's kid tried that yet? sounds fun.

Audrey for her part is getting up and reading on her own, this is new! :-)

How about some of the classics like Sarah Plain and Tall, Anne of Green Gables, Wizard of Oz, etc. That's the direction we sent Kayleigh when we got to this point.

She also just gave me the recommendation: The Invention of Hugo Caberet (it's a huge book, but half of it is pictures, I think.)

I can look at some of those classics...the problem we've had when I encouraged them in the past is that the chapters are very, very long. Kate has trouble sitting for long unbroken periods of time, and when there are 50-page chapters, she gets discouraged quickly. I will check them out.

The Hugo Caberet book is a very quick read, I believe, even though it looks huge. Lots of pictures and stuff. Kayleigh loved it and still reads it some times!

I thought of one more series Kayleigh had started reading and that was the Sisters Grimm series.

Francesca recently read "Blubber" by Judy Blume and she loved it.