Chapter books for young readers?

[Guest tjsmama]

Hi, I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone could suggest some chapter books for my 5 year old. Right now she's devouring all the Magic Treehouse books and Scooby Doo books. Since she's five, I'd like to keep her books age appropriate even though she's such an advanced reader. Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

[Kirch]

Hello and welcome! :001_smile:

 

I have a bunch of lists copied/pasted from previous threads here and other lists on the web, so I'll put a couple of those up for you later--I only have a few minutes right now. Off the top of my head, here are some my ds has enjoyed:

 

My Father's Dragon series (wonderful--you don't want to miss these!)

Capyboppy

Dolphin Adventure

Flat Stanley series

Nate the Great series

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

Chocolate Fever

Dragonslayer Academy series

A to Z mystery series

 

 

A few good authors who are safe (or at least have been so far!):

Clyde Robert Bulla

Dick King-Smith

Alice Dalgliesh

Cynthia Rylant

 

You might also find good suggestions from the emerging readers list from Heart of Dakota.

[Crafty Mathy Mom]

We enjoyed these:

 

Little House Series

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Babe: The Gallant Pig

anything by E. B. White

 

I may think of more later.

[Sophia]

Lighthouse Family books by Cynthia Rylant.

[Kristin in NE]

We like the Bailey School kids, American Girls, Cam Jansen, Encylopedia Brown, and Boxcar Children, off the top of my head.

[Guest tjsmama]

I really appreciate it!

[celticmom]

Another thought that I did not see listed is the Bobsey twins books. I enjoyed those as a child and my dd may be ready to start them soon.

[Kirch]

Okay, here's the list I mentioned earlier (someone else posted these here a while ago, but I don't remember who!):

 

DETECTIVE SERIES

Detective Dinosaur (and sequel) (Skofield) -- easy reader

Inspector Hopper (Cushman) -- easy reader

Aunt Eater Detective series (Cushman) -- easy reader

A to Z Mysteries

Jigsaw Jones (boy detective series) (Prellar)

Third Grade Detective series (Stanley)

Invisible Inc. series (Levy)

Casebook of Seymour Sleuth series (Cushman)

Boxcar Children series (Warner)

mystery books by Wayne Madsen

Incredible Journey books (Berry)

 

OTHER SERIES

Commander Toad series (Yolan) -- high on humor

Moongobble and me series (Coville)

Riddle series (Eisenberg & Hall) -- book after book of riddles, each on a related topic (i.e., puppies; rabbits; etc.)

Flat Stanley Worldwide Adventures series (Brown)

Billy and Blaze series (Anderson)

Dragonslayer Academy series (McMullan)

Thornton Burgess series

Great Illustrated Classics series

Magic School Bus chapter book series -- science

True Tales chapter book series -- non-fiction science/animals

 

BOOKS BY MARGARET DAVIDSON (biographies)

Thomas Edison

Louis Braille

Helen Keller

Five True Dog Stories

Five True Horse Stories

Nine True Dolphin Stories

 

BOOKS BY CLYDE BULLA (historical adventures)

Riding the Pony Express

Viking Adventures

The Sword in the Tree

The Secret Valley

A Lion to Guard Us

 

INDIVIDUAL TITLES

A Grain of Rice (Pittman)

Light at Tern Rock (Sauer)

Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure; Dolphins and Me (Grover)

 

Also, consider looking at the upper level "stepped" readers -- there are some really great titles in there that our DSs enjoyed immensely at that age:

 

The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Little)

The Trojan Horse: The World's Greatest Adventure (Davies)

Robin Hood: Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero (Bull)

Gargoyles (Dussling)

Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles (Maynard)

Pirates: Raiders of the High Seas (Maynard)

Fly on the Ceiling (Glass) -- very fun!

Titanic: Lost and Found (Donnelly)

Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly)

Spies! (Pratt)

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Murphy/Walz) -- very fun!

The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore)

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (Coerr)

Jumbo: World's Biggest Elephant (Worth)

The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician (Kulling)

Little Sure Shot: Annie Oakley (Spinner)

Man O'War: The Best Racehorse Ever (Mckerly)

The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford)

Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore)

Horse Named Seabiscuit (Duvowski)

Moonwalk (Donnelly)

Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski)

Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome)

USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson)

Finding the Titanic (Ballard)

Mountain Climbing: Scaling the World's Highest Peaks (Martin)

Greg's Microscope (Selsam)

Hill of Fire (Lewis)

Pompeii... Buried Alive! (Davis)

Race Into Space (Arnold)

Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin)

Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling)

Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid (Redmond)

Aladdin (Kerven)

 

 

Sonlight also has great reading choices. For that level, I'd check the Grade 2 readers (lots of overlap w/HOD's "emerging reader" set I mentioned before) and Grade 3 readers.

[In the Rain]

I second (or third) the idea of looking at a Sonlight catalog. We've found great titles there.

 

All of the series I was thinking of have already been listed above. I see lots of new titles too. I'm off to look through these great lists more carefully!