after Magic Tree House? What is fun, but also teaches about history, science etc.?

[Pen]

What books are at a higher reading level/interest level than the Magic Tree House series, but would similarly lead to learning about different places, times, historical figures, science, etc.?

 

If your child liked the Magic Tree House series including the fact trackers, but has grown out of it, what else did he or she like next?

[cjgrubbs]

:bigear:

[Melissa B]

American Girl

Magic School Bus

Miss Pickerell

Time Warp Trio

Childhood of Famous Americans

Edited March 24, 2012 by Melissa B

[stripe]

Ron Roy's Capital Mysteries might promote some vague knowledge of DC and the government.

[joyfulhomeschooler]

what about adventures in odyssey? Don't know much about these but someone recommended them to us when I asked the same question.

[Homemama2]

I don't know about immediately after Magic Tree house, but my 4th grader is loving the 39 Clues series. These are different in that the kids are looking for clues for this treasure hunt (of sorts), and while they are, they find out the Cahill family has all of these famous relatives from the past (I 'think' I'm remembering this right.) Anyway, they talk about famous people, and for my ds, it had sparked an interest in learning more about them. For example, the Medici family was mentioned (the wealthy Italian family who were patrons for famous artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo,) and when we came to them in our history this year he wanted to know all about them (meanwhile I was thinking that I had never learned about them in any history class I had ever taken, :lol:). These would be for slightly older kids, because the other relatives involved in the treasure hunt are pretty evil and mean to the main kids, so I'd preread one and see if it was appropriate for your dc.

[PIE!]

American Girl

[NittanyJen]

My DS8 has moved on from Magic Treehouse into everything written by Clive Bulla, and he likes the "You Wouldn't Want to Be A . . ." series very much. Those are two very different options!

 

So far he has loved pretty much everything recommended in the History Odyssey reading list (we finished Ancients and are now in Medieval).

 

But he still remembers all of his "Jack and Annie" facts-- a little walking encyclopedia :).

[lauracolumbus]

For a little bit older, the Roman Mysteries stories. The first one is a bit brutal. I'm going to skip it w/my youngest, but my ds learned a lot about Roman history from them.

He also really enjoyed the Time Warp Trio series.

Laura

[Lizzie in Ma]

Horrible books?