cindydanleo Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Hi, My son has had a late start in reading and I would like to get him interested in chapter books on the easy side. I am going to try Nate the Great and Magic Tree House. Does anyone else have any recommendations? He wants to try Diary of a Wimpy Kid but I think the humor will be over his head. I'm so desperate that I showed him Captain Underpants...but he said it has too much "potty talk". (Huh??? Surprised me. I didn't know that was such a concern for him. LOL) He loves adventure and light peril...with clear heros. Any ideas? Thanks Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenieReighn Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Check out the Blaze series by CW Anderson. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Magic School Bus chapter books Arthur chapter books Jigsaw Jones series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 It was a Dark and Stormy Night Tashi (get the 990+ page compilation one, he will be so proud of reading a huge book) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 If he likes fantasy, The Kingdom of Wrenly series. Or some of the Scholastic Branches series? My DD likes Dragon Masters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassafraz Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Another vote for the scholastic branches books. They are specifically designed for emerging readers. My ds was not ready to jump into chapter books even though he could. He has eaten up the Looniverse and Notebook of Doom books. They are series so once they start they want to finish. And Tashi is great too. We bought the Enormous book of Tashi mentioned above, and my boy has started it, but it is still intimidating. It will be a huge deal for him when he completes it. It has many short stories in it and I like that the stories get progressively longer and a little harder. The scaffolding is great for new readers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Horrid Henry Dragon Slayers Academy Maybe some books in graphic form Calvin and Hobbes counts as a chapter book, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Bunny Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 My ds8 did enjoy the Wimpy Kid books, FWIW. How about Geronimo Stilton? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Flat Stanley? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 These books (mostly series) are more or less the same "reading level" as Magic Treehouse. The Clubhouse Mysteries by Sharon M. Draper The Stories Justin Tells Bobby vs. Girls Melvin Beederman Superhero Sorry it's such a short list :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 The 1000 Good Books list. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Big list below! :) Similar in length and humor to Nate the Great (but not mysteries) is the Commander Toad series (Yolen). ANIMALS (real) 2nd grade reading level - Billy and Blaze series (Anderson) - Buddy, the First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore) - Barry, the Bravest St. Bernard (Hall) - The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford) - Balto and the Great Race (Kimmel) - Five True Dog Stories (Davidson) - Seven True Horse Stories (Davidson) - Nine True Dolphin Stories (Davidson) - Stone Fox (Gardiner) -- warning! dog dies! 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Animals Do The Strangest Things (Hornblow) - Birds Do The Strangest Things (Hornblow) - Insects Do The Strangest Things (Hornblow - Fish Do The Strangest Things (Hornblow) - Reptiles Do The Strangest Things (Hornblow) - Follow My Leader (Garfield) - Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure (Grover) - Horse Heroes (Petty) - Man O'War: The Best Racehorse Ever (Mckerly) - Horse Named Seabiscuit (Duvowski) - Jumbo (Worth) -- famous PT Barnum circus elephant 3rd grade reading level - Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure (Grover) - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Dalgliesh) - Christian Liberty Nature Readers - Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure; Dolphins and Me (Grover) ANIMALS (talking) 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Catwings (series) (LeGuin) 3rd grade reading level - My Father's Dragon (Gannett) - Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) - The Cricket in Times Square (Selden) - Chester Cricket series (Selden) 3rd/4th grade reading level - Charlotte's Web (White) - Trumpet of the Swan (White) - The Mouse and the Motorcycle (McCleary) FANTASY 2nd grade reading level - Magic Tree House (series) (Osborne) - Toots and the Upside Down House (Hughes) - The Littles series (Peterson) - Catwings series (LeGuin) 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Moongobble and Me (series) (Coville) - Dragonslayer Academy (series) (McMullan) 3rd grade reading level - Magic Rainbow Fairy (series) (Meadows) - Flower Fairies Friends (series) (Barker) - Fairy Realm (series) (Rodda) - The Unicorn's Secret (series) (Duey) - The Borrowers (series) (Norton) - My Father's Dragon (and sequels) (Gannett) - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Great Glass Elevator (Dahl) REAL LIFE 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Billy and Blaze series (Anderson) - Light at Tern Rock (Sauer) - Follow My Leader (Garfield) 3rd grade reading level - Understood Betsy (Fisher) - B is for Betsy (Haywood) - Betsy and Tacy series (Lovelace) - The Moffats series (Estes) - Grandma's Attic series (Richardson) - The Robinson Crusoe Reader (Cowles) -- our DSs loved this one - The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill) - Henry Huggins (series) (McCleary) DETECTIVE 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Jigsaw Jones series (Prellar) - Cam Jansen series (Adler) - Third Grade Detective series (Stanley) - A to Z Mysteries(Roy) - High Rise Private Eyes series (Rylant) 3rd grade reading level - Invisible Inc. series (Levy) - Einstein Anderson series (Simon) - Encyclopedia Brown series (Sobol) - Boxcar Children series (Warner) MYTH / FAIRYTALE 2nd/3rd grade reading level - The Blind Men and the Elephant (Backstein/Mitra) - Sim-Chung and the River Dragon (Schecter) - The Warrior Maiden (Schecter) - A Grain of Rice (Pittman) - Aladdin (Mistry) 3rd grade reading level - Tales of Robin Hood (Claybourne) 3rd/4th grade reading level - Mermaid Tales from Around the World (Osborne) - Beauty and the Beast (Osborne) - Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights (Tenggren) - Tales from the Ballet (Barber) - The Tall Book of Christmas (Smith) - Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury (Brett) - The World's Best Fairy Tales (Sideman) -- a Reader's Digest Anthology FUN TALL TALE 2nd grade reading level - riddle series by Eisenberg and Hall (Ribbit Riddles, Bunny Riddles, Puppy Riddles…) 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Flat Stanley series (Brown) - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Dalgliesh) - The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) - McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm (Fleischman) 3rd grade reading level - Pippi Longstockings; Pippi in the South Seas (Astrid) - Ben and Me; Mr. Revere and I (Lawson) HISTORY ADVENTURE 2nd/3rd grade reading level - Viking Adventure (Bulla) - The Sword in the Tree (Bulla) -- Medieval England - The Minstrel in the Tower (Skurzynski) -- Medieval England - A Lion to Guard Us (Bulla) -- Colonial US - Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) --American Revolution - true story - The Secret Valley (Bulla) -- Gold Rush/pioneers - Riding the Pony Express (Bulla) -- Pony Express, 1861 3rd grade reading level - Robin Hood: Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero (Bull) - Robinson Crusoe Reader (Cowles) -- adaptation of the classic story - Marco Polo (Graves) - The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial US - Sarah Plain and Tall; Skylark; Caleb's Story (MacLachlan) -- US - pioneer times - Hannah (Whelan) -- blind pioneer girl - Silver (Whelan) -- daughter of an Alaskan "musher" gets a sled dog puppy - Pioneer Cat (Hooks) -- pioneer girl and her cat travel west in a wagon train - The Little Riders (Shemin) -- WWII occupied Europe 3rd/4th grade reading level - The Kite Fighters (Park) -- 1400s Korea - The Cabin Faced West (Fritz) -- pioneer times US - Twenty and Ten (Bishop) -- WWII French children hide Jewish children BIOGRAPHY 2nd/3rd grade reading level - The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (Davidson) - Helen Keller (Davidson) - Helen Keller's Teacher (Davidson) - Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark (Hurwitz) - Louis Braille (Davidson) - Brendan the Navigator (Fritz) 3rd grade reading level - Joan of Arc (Corey) - Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky - The Secret Soldier: The Story Of Deborah Sampson (McGovern) - The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore) - The Wright Brothers (Reynolds) - Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman (Henry) - Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin) - The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician (Kulling) 3rd/4th grade reading level - Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz) - What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz) - And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz) - Paul Revere's Ride (Corey) - Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride (Amstel) - Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Kulling) HISTORICAL FICTION 2nd/3rd grade reading level - The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Little) - The Trojan Horse: The World's Greatest Adventure (Davies) - The Arrow and the Apple (Buff) - Minstrel in the Tower (Skurzynski) - Brendan the Navigator (Fritz) 3rd grade reading level - Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky - Tales of Robin Hood (Claybourne) - Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles (Maynard) - Pirates: Raiders of the High Seas (Maynard) - Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent (Martin) - The Wright Brothers (Reynolds) 3rd/4th grade reading level - Archimedes and the Door of Science (Bendick) - Along Came Galileo (Bendick) - Escape North! Story of Harriet Tubman (Kulling) NON-FICTION - Pompeii... Buried Alive! (Davis) - Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski) - The Titanic: Lost and Found (Donnelly) - Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly) - To The Top! Climbing the World's Highest Mountain (Kramer) - Mountain Climbing: Scaling the World's Highest Peaks (Martin) - Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome) - USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson) - Race Into Space (Arnold) - Moonwalk (Donnelly) - Finding the Titanic (Ballard) SCIENCE - Magic School Bus chapter book series - Greg's Microscope (Selsam) - Hill of Fire (Lewis) - The Animal Rescue Club (Himmelman) - Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin) -- 1880s dino hunters - Dinosaur Hunters (McMullan) -- modern day - Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling) - Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid (Redmond) - True Tales, chapter book series on non-fiction science/animals 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Secrets of Droon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nart Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Ricky Ricotta -about a boy and his robot. It is a series and is a great first chapter book. Lots of pictures along with chapters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 My almost 8 year old loves Geronimo Stilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The Henry Huggins series The Ralph S. Mouse series Stuart Little Carolyn Haywood's Eddie series Matt Christopher's Soccer Cats series Bob and Anthony (http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Anthony-Gail-C-Atlas/dp/1502821559/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1430050820&sr=8-3&keywords=Bob+and+anthony -- written by a former homeschooling mom, mildly Christian but not preachy) My now 10yo son loved all of the above between the ages of 7 and 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitterpatter Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Scholastic Branches for 6-8-year-olds. http://www.scholastic.com/branches/ Also, http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/02/first-chapter-books-boys.html http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/02/early-chapter-books-about-boys.html http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/10/books-for-8-year-old-boys.html http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/books-for-kids - List index. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindydanleo Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Wow...thank you everyone! I will look into all those. That will keep me busy for awhile. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAttachedMama Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 My child is a late reading 8 year old boy. He really likes the high noon Ricky and Bobby mysteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 My nearly 6 year old is reading Hey Jack, Zac Power test drive and spy camp, animal crackers books by orchard, fancy Nancy and some other stuff. They are mostly early chapter books but just below magic treehouse, magic school bus, boxcar kids and A to Z mysteries. The calendar mysteries by the A to Z author may be in between though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 DS8 is reading the Roscoe Riley series. I am excited to look through all of these suggestions. A lot of the books I suggest he will only read a chapter or two or won't try at all. It's good to have lots of ideas! ETA: typo, my phone hates me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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