DragonFaerie Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I'm looking for a good reading list for my DD, who just turned 9 last week. She is in 3rd grade but can read on about a 6th grade reading level. However, she does not really enjoy reading so up until now, I've let her read just about whatever she wanted (Goosebumps were a favorite :tongue_smilie:) just to try and instill of a love of reading. She liked Percy Jackson and the first Guardians of Ga'Hoole book and she's just finished Wolves of the Beyond. She'll be starting Hoot this week. I'd like to start choosing a little better for her "school" reading (rather than letting her choose) but I don't really know what to give her. She tried Anne of Green Gables and liked the beginning but it's too long a book for her at this point. We'll have to try that one again later. She read Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie but was a little bored by them. Can anyone recommend a reading list that is appropriate for both her age and her advanced reading level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Here are some of the books my dd has enjoyed from the last year and that are on her current school reading list (in no particular order): Finn Family Moomintroll (series) The Saturdays (Enright -- first of a series) The Moffats (Estes -- series) Shadrach (deJong -- this is a wonderful read-aloud, though my dd didn't enjoy reading it on her own as much) Castaways in Lilliput (good to read a children's retelling of the Lilliput portion of Gulliver's Travels first -- I chose Gulliver in Lilliput by Margaret Hodges) The Sisters Grim (series -- great fun if she has some familiarity with fairy tales) The Wizard of Oz Ramona books (Beverly Cleary -- also her Henry books) Detectives in Togas Anne of Green Gables All of the Harry Potter books The Chronicles of Narnia The Cat Who Went to Heaven The Dragon of Lonely Island A Little Princess The Secret Garden The Tale of Despereaux The Wheel on the School Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks Because of Winn-Dixie Amos Fortune, Free Man Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Caddie Woodlawn A Wrinkle in Time At the Sign of the Sugared Plum The Tarantula in My Purse Homer Price Calico Captive The Witch of Blackbird Pond The Jungle Book Just-So Stories In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Peter Pan Mr. Revere and I Ben and Me Stowaway (Hesse) Island of the Aunts (and others by Eva Ibbotson -- she also wrote some young adult romances, tame as these are, you'll want to stick to her *children's* books) Ella Enchanted (and others by Gail Carson Levine) The Twenty-One Balloons Swallows and Amazons (series) The Phantom Tollbooth The Cricket in Times Square Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, and others by Roald Dahl Redwall (series) The Penderwicks Five Children and It (series by E. Nesbit -- also Railway Children and others by the same author) Half-Magic (Eager -- inspired in part by E. Nesbit's series above) All-of-a-Kind Family Harriet the Spy Pollyanna Mary Poppins 101 Dalmations The Giants and the Joneses Her Majesty, Grace Jones The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet The Girl Who Could Fly The Borrowers (series) Gregor the Overlander (series) For some additional lists, try: Logos School Elementary Literature List http://logosprincipalspage.com/?cat=37 Great Books Academy curriculum book list http://www.greatbooksacademy.org/curriculum/curriculum-book-list/ Highlands Latin School summer reading list http://thelatinschool.org/summerreading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 You might find my Amazon lists useful. I'm having a hard time making the link - I'm not on my own computer - but if you Google Laura in China you will find them. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonFaerie Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 Thank you!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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