Hyacinth Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 We just finished The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (loved it), and I don't have anything lined up. (I'm holding off on Huck Finn until next year.) The boys will listen to nearly anything, but they have a special affinity for adventure stories about boys. The Narnia series, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, and My Side of the Mountain were all hits. Any suggestions? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyacinth Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 If you want to interest them in a series you can read the first book in the Ranger's Apprentice series, "The Ruins of Gorlan". Ah, the Ranger's Apprentice. My oldest read that series on his own. He loved it so much that he had a cloak made for himself :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Swallows and Amazons & sequelsMy Family & Other Animals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Fantasy adventures like Narnia - Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) - The Never Ending Story (Ende) - The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Lord of the Rings trilogy (Tolkien) - Farmer Giles of Ham (Tolkien) - Smith of Wooton Major (Tolkien) - Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson) - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien) - Watership Down (Adams) - Book of Dragons (Nesbit) -- short story collection - Five Children and It; The Phoenix and the Carpet (Nesbit) - Knight's Castle (Eager) -- and Half Magic, Magic By the Lake, Time Garden, Seven Day Magic Survival/realistic adventures like My Side of the Mountain - The Incredible Journey (Burnford) - The Black Stallion (Farley) - The Cay (Taylor) - Call It Courage (Armstrong) - Born in the Year of Courage (Crofford) - Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) - Kildee House (Montgomery) - Little Britches (Moody) - The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill) Historical setting adventure like Mr. Bowditch - Shadow Hawk (Norton) -- ancient Egypt - Hittite Warrior (Williamson) -- ancient Egypt/Israel/Hittite - Ben Hur (Wallace) -- ancient Israel/Rome - The Great and Terrible Quest (Lovett) -- medieval - Adam of the Road (Gray) -- medieval - The King's Fifth (O'Dell) -- 16th century conquistadors - Walk The World's Rim (Baker) -- 16th century conquistadors - The Master Puppeteer (Paterson) -- 1700s Japan - Sign of the Beaver (Speare) -- colonial US Native American - Diary of an Early American Boy (Sloane) -- colonial US - The Journeyman (Caldwell) -- colonial US - Midshipman Quinn series (Styles) -- British navy, Napoleonic Wars - Johnny Tremain (Forbes) -- Revolutionary War - Guns for General Washington (Reit) - Across Five Aprils (Hunt) -- Civil War - Rifles for Watie (Keith) -- Civil War - The Twenty-One Balloons (du Bois) -- 1800s Jules Verne-like adventure - The Great Wheel (Lawson) -- turn of century first ferris wheel - Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Newman) -- late 1800s Sherlock Holmes Older classics like Tom Sawyer - Treasure Island (Stevenson) - Oliver Twist (Dickens) - The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) - Around the World in 80 Days (Verne) - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) - Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne) - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (and others by Howard Pyle) - Call of the Wild; White Fang (London) - Tanglewood Tales; The Wonder Book (Hawthorne) - The Lost World (Doyle) - Ivanhoe (Scott) Non-fiction adventures - Kon Tiki (Heyersdahl) -- 1940s crossing of the Pacific on a log raft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduemeche Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 The unabridged Lord of the Rings cycle narrated by Rob Inglis is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingHope Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 My husband thinks that Kipling's Captains Courageous (about developing a good work ethic) is one of the best read alouds. We also enjoyed it again as an audiobook read by George Guidall (audible.com). The others that come to mind instantly are Shackleton's South, Stevenson's Kidnapped, and Ralph Moody's Little Britches (and every book in the series...these are must reads). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyacinth Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Wow! There are so many here we haven't read yet. Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions. I really appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWillSoar Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 We loved The Mysterious Benedict Society! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rose Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 For a fun book, how about Swiss Family Robinson. My boy is re-reading it right now and laughs every now and then about how magical the island is. It would drive me crazy because it's so impossible but my boy loves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaLisa Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Swiss Family Robinson is all adventure! Also: The Hobbit, Tolkien Watership Down, Richard Adams The Yearling, Marjorie Kinan Rawlings Freckles, Gene Stratton Porter The Hound of Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (we all loved this) The Scarlet Pimpernel (a great twist at the end!), Baronness Orczy Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I love these threads. Thanks OP. I post this question often so here is my last thread in case it helps at all. I am also perusing the read-aloud threads again because we've been on a streak of (excellent) girl books...Flora, Calpurnia, Pollyanna. Need to read a boy book next though I'm itching to read Hitty, her first 100 years with him. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/512627-care-to-share-your-favorite-read-aloud-for-4th5th6th-grade/?hl=%2Bread%26%238208aloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 These are pretty easy readalouds, but they're fun and a little different from the usual historic fiction out there, plus there's so,e suspense and mystery involved: The 68 Rooms series (four books, although each adventure is a complete adventure, unlike the Percy Jackson series) by Marianne Malone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I second (for your own personal enjoyment while reading to your boys): Phantom Tollbooth Five Children and It Johnny Tremain Lots of other great ones have been mentioned, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In2why Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 White Fang My son who is not excited about reading or being read to is really enjoying White Fang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Swallows and Amazons & sequels My Family & Other Animals We are in the middle of My Family... and LOVING it!! Also reading Boy by Roald Dahl and really enjoying that as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 We are in the middle of My Family... and LOVING it!! btw, when you're done, the 2005 dvd with Imelda Staunton is excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 We are reading and loving "the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi. Awesome book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 We loved: Sign of the Beaver Crispin Cross of Lead Gifted Hands - The Ben Carson Story (the audio was terrific!) Courage to Run Amos Fortune, Free Man The Golden Goblet God King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Nick of Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momee Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Book of Three Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Ooh great thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Tumtum and Nutmeg Paddington books The Wind in the Willows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 We loved: Sign of the Beaver Crispin Cross of Lead Gifted Hands - The Ben Carson Story (the audio was terrific!) Courage to Run Amos Fortune, Free Man The Golden Goblet God King GIfted Hands is such a rewarding read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 GIfted Hands is such a rewarding read. For what ages is it appropriate? Too much for K, as in, I should have the 9 and 12 yo's read it themselves, or is it appropriate for the whole family? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 what a great thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippymom Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Tucket's Travels by Gary Paulsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thank you for starting this OP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 For what ages is it appropriate? Too much for K, as in, I should have the 9 and 12 yo's read it themselves, or is it appropriate for the whole family? I think the K'er would be bored more than anything. It's a classical American self-improvement narrative. The movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kimberly Elise might be better suited for a whole family experience than reading the book aloud. The 9/12yos might want to pick up the book and read it for themselves after seeing the movie. (Carson has some other books as well, less memoir-specific and I think increasingly libertarian in political bent.) Possible content issues: Ben Carson has episodes in high school where he gets in fights and associates with a somewhat unsavory element. His mother has bouts with mental illness for which she needs to be (secretly) hospitalized. Once he becomes a doctor/surgeon there are sick child patients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest memoni687 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 We just finished reading The White House. It is book 2 of the I.Q. Series by Roland Smith. It's about kids who's parents are involved with spy missions, it is realistic without too much gory detail, and it's themes are very current, terrorist threats and plots against the president etc.... with some nice plot twists. It is told from the perspective of some very adventurous and resilient kids and my 11 year old son loved it. (This is a secular book) Also, two books that are faith building and amazing true adventure stories that all 5 of my kids loved were: God's Adventurer: Hudson Taylor by Phyllis Thompson and Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a lifetime by Janet and Geoff Benge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinaJ Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thank you all! My 10.5 is hard to get interested in anything for longer than 10minutes.... Unless he really really really likes it (He just finished "how to steal a dog" in couple hours because he was so intrigued if you can really profit from it... :huh: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Tharp Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thanks for this. Busily scribbling down titles now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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