fdrinca Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I tried searching the archives but you know how that goes... My son loves to read. He prefers books about "real" kids, people, situations - he adored Wonder, for example, but disliked Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. Other recent hits include Pax and When I Reach You. He also does swift business in graphic novels, the I Survived series, and comics. What are your favorite books for this age? I'm also drafting our literature list for the year, so feel free to add all sorts of hits. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Hm. Try these: Kinda Like Brothers Flipped Dash (and the other two books in that series, Dogs of WWII) The War That Saved My Life Pickle by Kim Baker The Great Greene Heist The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher Mission Mumbai The Boys Start the War Swindle Dragonwings The Way Home Looks Now As Brave as You Bud, Not Buddy and also The Mighty Miss Malone (don't know how he feels about "girl" books) Dave at Night Save Me a Seat One Crazy Summer The Wednesday Wars If I Ever Get Out of Here (geared very slightly older) The Crossover The Lightning Queen Echo Salt All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook Ruby on the Outside Al Capone Does My Shirts City of Orphans The King of Mulberry Street Summer of the Gypsy Moths Frindle (and any book by this author) Hitler's Canary Year of the Dog Ticket to India Brendan Buckley's Unvierse and Everything In It The Birchbark House Tracks by Diane Lee Wilson The Wig in the Window How Lamar's Bad Prank Earned Him a Bubba-Sized Trophy (again, geared slightly older, lots of talk about having a crush) Bo at Ballard Creek The Toothpaste Millionaire The Thing About Luck Ghost by Jason Reynolds American Ace The Harlem Charade The Year of the Dog Marco Impossible The Lemonade War Indian Shoes How Tia Lola Came to Stay The Long Pitch Home Talking Leaves Armstrong and Charlie The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora The Detention Club The Only Road The Other Boy Some of these books are light reads. Others are a little intense. Some are historical. Others are contemporary. You must do the sorting yourself, I'm afraid - but I can assure you they're all 100% realistic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Hatchet (does mention divorce in a way that you may want to preview to see if appropriate for your child) My Side of the Mountain Where the Red Fern Grows Lost on a Mountain in Maine My 9 year old has no interest in Percy Jackson or Harry Potter but he did really enjoy The Hobbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Oooh, I don't know how I could've forgotten My Side of the Mountain. Yes, do that one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyGF Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 My ten year old loved the Piet Prins books. The younger appropriate are about a dog around the time of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. The older appropriate ones take place during the same time but go into the resistance movement more. FWIW, Piet Prins actually was part of the Dutch resistance and was in a concentration camp (one of the western ones) during part of WWII, so he wrote from true experience. That said, Prins is Dutch reformed, and though the books aren't preachy, I think, you might want to peruse one before handing it over to your kiddo. These were the series that took DS10 from slow reader to medium speed reader. He would read them aloud to me on car rides because he loved them so much. Emily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 (edited) My boys also like "real kid" books more than fantasy overall. Seconding some of these, like My Side of the Mountain (and if he likes that survival stuff, then Hatchet, obviously) and some of Tanaqui's great ideas, like The Lemonade War series, which is a nice, light read at this age but has a lot of good messages and little side academic stuff. This is really the right age for Andrew Clements, and nearly all of his stuff is "everyday kid" genre and most are "boy books." We were especially fond of A Week in the Woods and Lunch Money, but he has a million. Also an okay age to start in on Jerry Spinelli. Crash and Maniac McGee would be good ones. If he'll do books with girls as the protagonist, then Wendy Mass is another great master of the "everyday kid" book. The birthdays series is good for this age (there's just a touch of magic in them). Or Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and that one has a boy protagonist. She has many others though. My boys really like the Winston Breen books - they also have puzzles. Also, the adored the I, Funny books, which are really, really easy reads. For historical books, The Great Brain is a good "boy" everyday kid series. Tanaqui's list had some good ones in that vein, like Al Capone Does My Shirts and Bud, Not Buddy. And I'll add in that if he likes funny, Dead End in Norvelt is another great title in the everyday kid in history genre. Edited August 17, 2017 by Farrar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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