Tree House Academy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just thought this might be fun. My 9 year old is making his way through the Charlie Bone series. He is enjoying them immensely. Next on his list (once the series is finished) is Eragon (which I am reading right now LOL), Inkheart, and The Thief Lord. My 5 year old is making a dent in the Dr, Seuss books. LOL What are your kids reading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avila Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My 9 (almost 10) yo DD is reading through the Anne of Green Gables series. I think she is on the second from the last right now. She has also read all the Little House and Little Women books this year. My 7 yo DD is not a fiction fan. She read mostly library books about animals and Zoo Books. My 5 yo DD is listening to A.A. Milne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary in KS Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Ds 13 - Men of Iron. Ds 8- Calvin and Hobbes books. :) He is getting into the longer beginner books: Nate the Great, Marvin Redpost, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdie Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 DS 12 - Ranger's Apprentice series-I think he is on book #5. DD 10 - Pipi Longstocking DS 9 - tyring to find my copy of Stone Fox for him to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runninmommy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Lets see..for history they are reading various books about India, Islam, Hinduism. For fun Lex is reading the Left behind series Brandon is reading The Jack Stalwart series Cody is reading Dr. Seuss; I Am Not Going To Get Up Today and The Cat In The Hat Comes Back (by himself, yaa!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My son is a little more than halfway through The Fellowship of the Ring. For school, he's reading The Children's Homer and The Well of Sacrifice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 The ten year old is reading The Serial Garden: The complete Armitage Family Stories, and a number of Hank the Cow Dog books. The fourteen year old is working his way through The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Good Earth trilogy, and a stack of science fiction titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeathenMom Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 my 12 yods is finally on the last book of the Harry Potter series my 5 yodd and 4 yods are listening to 'Little House in the Big Woods' and are loving it. i'm reading 'Eifelheim' by Michael Flynn. so far it's wonderful! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Mac is reading All Creatures Great and Small, The Road Home, and the Good Master. For fun Getting the Girl. Fi just finished Swordbird, Sisters Grim 6, and Protecting Mary. She said she wants to read a bk called Listen next. She will be starting SL 4 next week. First up is By the Great Horn Spoon and Moccasin Trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisychics Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Ds: Tale of Despereaux (night time) MTH the Penguin one and (during the day) MTH the Wizard one dd: 100EZ lessons and Bob books, she on #7 (yay) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Elliot Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I love seeing these kinds of lists. Great idea for a thread! 3yod (not reading on her own yet) - just discovered Curious George and loves him. I read "Curious George Goes to the Zoo" five times in a row the other night. 5yos (still reading easy readers) - enjoying having Little House in the Big Woods read to him 8yod - Ginger Pye. And, this child keeps getting caught reading ahead in our read aloud, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. 10yod - the Ivan series (about Christians in the Soviet Union) 12yod - just finished the Ivan series, trying to decide what to start next 13yos - Crispin at the Edge of the World 14yos - Reading Between the Lines, The 5000 Year Leap 16yos - When I asked him what he was reading for fun he said, "Bruchko, the sequel, and Morphology of Biblical Greek." :lol: He was serious. 18yos - Orthodoxy 18yos - Peace Like a River Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 17yo- Annals of the Western Shore series by Ursula LeGuin for fun; Catcher in the Rye for school 15yo- Just finished Stardust for fun. Just starting The Great Gatsby for literature. Reading Long Road from Home by Kherdian and The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedmanfor history. 6yo- umm, Does his CLE Reading count? Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I love these threads too! It's hard to keep up with because all of us have several books going at once. 14yo dd - Just finished Tom Sawyer, now reading The Bronze Bow, and others I can't remember. 8yo dd - any and all chapter books with dogs & puppies 4yodd - As many picture books as possible. Favorites are "We're Going on a Bear Hunt," and anything by William Steig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Dd aged 13: The Warden by Anthony Trollope and Switchers Trilogy by Kate Thompson Ds aged 11: The London Eye Mystery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaLisa Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 2 yo: One Yellow Lion remains her favorite. 4 yo: Current favorites: Dora and Diego books, The Year of Wonder 9 yo: Fighting with Whales, Michael McHugh (a CLP book) 12 yo: Another in his current like for original Hardy Boys: Hunting for Hidden Gold (Appelwood Books) 14 yo: Lord of the Rings (again?) and Watership Down, Richard Adams 15 yo: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmond Morris, and Watership Down 17 yo: War in Heaven, Charles Williams 16yos - When I asked him what he was reading for fun he said, "Bruchko, the sequel, and Morphology of Biblical Greek." :lol: He was serious. Luanne, Is this a sequel to Bruchko or is Bruckho the sequel (and, if so, to what)? My kids have enjoyed that one. And, more questions :D, who is the author for for the Ivan series? Would they appeal to boys? Thanks! Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcjlkplus3 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 my dd7.5 is making her way through Namcy Drew and the Clue Crew books, with a time-out at the moment for Sam Samurai (Time Warp Trio). dd5.5 is working on the first set of Bob Books. Both girls 7.5 and 5.5 are listening to Little House in the Big Woods (7.5yo is also listening to Pippi Longstocking) All three dd7.5, dd5.5 and ds4(next week) all love listening to Magic Tree House. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWSJ Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 ds7.5 - Pippi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Elliot Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 (edited) Luanne, Is this a sequel to Bruchko or is Bruckho the sequel (and, if so, to what)? My kids have enjoyed that one. And, more questions :D, who is the author for for the Ivan series? Would they appeal to boys? Thanks! Lisa It's a sequel to Bruchko. The title is Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle copyright 2006. The Ivan series, by Myrna Grant, would definitely appeal to boys as the main character is a boy. I bought the whole series for dd's birthday last September. Timberdoodle carries them http://www.timberdoodle.com/Ivan_Books_Set_of_6_p/870-435.htm Edited February 5, 2009 by Luann in ID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Robinson Crusoe. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peek a Boo Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 14yods: Pilgrims Progress, Once and Future King, and a ton of extra reading. 11yods: Wrinkle in Time; other books [drawing, science, Bionicle mostly] 7yods: shorter chapter books and longer picture books. 4yodd [5yo next week]: Bob books :) 2yods [3yo in a couple weeks]: he likes to carry around and look at Spiderman, Batman, or Bob the Builder books. typical baby/ animal/ machine picture books are great too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Katia Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 16yo dd just finished comparing/contrasting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story (the novel not the musical, although they are very similar) and she loved them. She is now falling in love with Chaim Potok's The Chosen and will then move on to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which I believe she will like just as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 DS 9 - tyring to find my copy of Stone Fox for him to read. My dd read that at the beginning of the school year. I don't know if you've ever read it, but the ending is pretty sad. I don't know how sensitive your son is, but my daughter lost it at the end. She cried and cried. Just wanted to let you know. Here's what mine are reading: DD 8- Winnie the Horse Gentler series, book 2 DD5- BOB books :001_smile: I am reading The Little Princess aloud to them. They don't like it as much as The Indian in the Cupboard. Go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddhabelly Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 (edited) Ds 9 just finished "Tucket's Ride" by Gary Paulsen, and before that he read the Bartimeaus Trilogy. We are studying the 1830's - 1850's (straddling SOTW 3 and 4 right now). "Tucket's Ride" is set during the Mexican-American War, and ds really liked it. We also have "Josefina's World - 1824" (set in New Mexico when it was still part of Mexico), but he just reads that in short spurts. I guess I didn't realize that it's not a story-type book. It's more like a DK book. Fun thread! Julie Edited February 6, 2009 by buddhabelly misspelled the name of the book! duh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 11 yo dd just finished up Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (a favorite author). She's doing a newspaper as a book report right now. I'm not sure what's next. I'm looking for historical fiction 600-400 BC (Babylonian Captivity of Israel, Daniel, Ezekiel, Ancient China as well). 5 yo ds is reading a variety of books. He is really enjoying animals right now, so lots of animal books from the library. I just brought home a stack of books that were going to be discarded from a daycare room at church. They include: Are You My Mother; Father Bear Comes Home; some Clifford, Curious George, and Mercer Mayer books; and Why Do Cows Moo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melora in NC Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 10 yr old ds is reading Onion John (by Krumgold), 6 yr old dd is reading through the Fox (by James Marshall) books. I love seeing what other people's children are reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhudson Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My 10 year old is reading "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Naya Nuki" My 7yr old son is reading "Peter Pan" and my 7 yr old daughter is reading, "Twenty One Balloons" They are all reading books on George Washington and the Revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 17yo- Annals of the Western Shore series by Ursula LeGuin for fun; Catcher in the Rye for school 15yo- Just finished Stardust for fun. Just starting The Great Gatsby for literature. Reading Long Road from Home by Kherdian and The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedmanfor history. 6yo- umm, Does his CLE Reading count? Mandy Oh, Catcher in the Rye and Gatsby are two of my all time favorites. I just re-read Catcher while on vacation in the fall - after 25 or so years - and then passed it to my dad, who hasn't read it in as long. (I read neither for school, nor did my husband. More and more, I think our high schools were really lame, even 20-odd years ago.) My (newly)8 y.o. is reading Inkspell for pleasure and Frindle for book club. The boys (4) have been "reading" I-Spy and Where's Waldo books together when they go to bed (they all have 30 minutes to an hour to read before lights-out). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My kids' recent reading is in the side bar of my blog (in siggy). Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Just fun reading (not school stuff) DD 9.5yo - Island of the Blue Dolphins, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler DS 7yo (tomorrow is his 7th birthday!!) - AtoZ Mysteries, You wouldn't want to be.... (history titles), Magic School Bus books, just about any short chapter book that passes the Mommy radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 15 y.o.: Nothing right now. She's been trying to paint and draw more in her free time. 13 y.o.: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 8 y.o.: A Stranger at Green Knowe and Calvin and Hobbes 6 y.o. just finished reading Duck on a Bike and Five for a Little One to his little brother and has been reading Calvin and Hobbes in his spare time. 4 y.o. is looking at an Usborne lift-the-flaps science book because he likes to look at the pictures under the flaps. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Closeacademy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 older dd--Bumber Boy and the Loud Mountain (a graphic novel) younger dd--"reading" Niki (an American Girl of the year) Yeah, we are not reading classic literature but one day maybe we will. They have to learn to like to read first.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 (edited) January read a louds: Calico Captive - great! Sign of the Beaver - great! Matchlock Gun - great! many non-fiction picture books and short books, French & Indian War and Indians I'm starting Madeline Takes Command today. Readers this week so far: 7yo - Meet the North American Indians - Elizabeth Payne, If you Lived in the Time of the Cherokees, Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims - Clyde Bulla 9yo- Betrayal at Cross Creek (American Girl history mystery), Childhood of Famous Americans Betsy Ross, yesterday, and Martha Washington, today! Edited February 5, 2009 by LNC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 8 yo dd: At the moment (literally) she is reading Henry and the Clubhouse (Cleary). She reads books over and over again, so others I've seen in her hands the last few days are Ballet Shoes and a bunch of Roald Dahl books (The BFG is her favorite). 6 yo dd: Just starting to read through books on her own. Picked up a bunch of Level B Rookie Readers at the library yesterday and read three this morning. Current audiobook in the car: Pinky Pye (usually we have a Hank the Cowdog going but the library was out of them). Current read-alouds: almost done with Johnny Tremain and The Reb and the Redcoats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 (edited) This week as read alouds-- Danny the Champion of the World, and then blasted through The Tale of Desperaux ,finally. My 9 yr old read the third Gilda Joyce book, & Coraline this week. My older dd also read Coraline (at the insistance of her younger sister lol) as well. They are going with hsing friends to see the movie on Fri. Older dd also read Behind Enemy Lines (about Sarah Edmonds, a young woman from CN who was a spy for the Union during the American civil war). This week, I reread Troy, and a couple of Perri Klass books; A Sweater for My Father, and Other People's Children. I can see where our time goes. lol Edited February 6, 2009 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My 10yo ds is reading "The Hobbit" and "Aristotle Leads the Way". My almost 5yo is reading Bob books :D . Our current read aloud is "Monks and Mystics". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 DD8 Theatre Shoes, Mysterious Benedict Society DS6 Henry & Mudge books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellyndria Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 3yo DS (being read to) - Lots of dinosaur books, volcano books, dinosaur books, alligator and crocodile books, dinosaur books, occasional shark books, dinosaur books, picture storybooks of my choosing, and did I mention dinosaur books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 The Youngest Templar, Keeper of the Grail The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Tom Sawyer I'm less than thrilled with TS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My 7 year old is reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. My 9 year old is reading Little Women. We just finished The Hobbit as our read aloud and will be beginning The Lord of the Rings tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My dd10 is The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer. My ds8 is reading Long Shadows by Erin Hunter. My ds4 is reading Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel. And I am reading to Sea Bird by Holling C. Holling and a stack of picture books to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragons in the flower bed Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 This is really interesting. me: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman 8yo: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 6yo: Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow by James Crow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 The Youngest Templar, Keeper of the Grail The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Tom Sawyer I'm less than thrilled with TS. Ds9 just finished the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He liked it, but told me he *GASP* liked the movie better. :( What I have learned here...never, never, never let a kid see the movie before reading the book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenniferB Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My 10yo dd is reading through The Little House series. She REALLY loves them! She has 4 books to go in the Laura series. He also read Ballet Shoes and is finishing Theater Shoes. I just asked her what she wants to do for fun reading after Theater Shoes, since she'll be finished with that after today, and she said she wants to finish the Chronicles of Narnia series. She started it a couple of years ago, and didn't finish, so she wants to finish that next. She said after she's done with The Little House series she wants to read through the Anne of Green Gables series. My 5 & 4 yos aren't reading "real" books yet. I'm reading to them 50 Famous Stories, The Golden Children's Bible, Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans and A Child's Garden of Verses. Family Time Bible in pictures and Golden Children's Books for my 1yo and my day care 2yo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 :iagree: We watch the movies after the book;). Ds9 just finished the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He liked it, but told me he *GASP* liked the movie better. :( What I have learned here...never, never, never let a kid see the movie before reading the book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLynnTX Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 6yods--I'm reading Hank the Cowdog to him. He likes it a lot! 8yodd--The Boxcar children. She read the first one in 3 days, and is starting book 2. She loves this series! :-) 12yods--Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson 14yods--JUST FINISHED Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. Need to figure out what is next for him! 12 & 14 yo ds' and I just finished Christy, which, I should add, I loved!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBP Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 DS 11 has just today finished "Farmer Boy" as assigned reading for school and is reading "Inkheart" in his spare time. DD 9 also just finished "Farmer Boy" for school and is reading... something about a dog (can't remember the title) in her spare time. We're doing "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" as our current read-aloud. SBP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 DS 11 has just today finished "Farmer Boy" as assigned reading for school and is reading "Inkheart" in his spare time. DD 9 also just finished "Farmer Boy" for school and is reading... something about a dog (can't remember the title) in her spare time. We're doing "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" as our current read-aloud. SBP Does your ds11 like Inkheart? I am reading it right now (my son wants to see the movie and I told him he had to read the book first. Now I am reading it so I can see the movie with him. I don't like to watch movies based on books when I haven't read the book). Thus far, I am not enthused. I was just wondering if this is more appealing to a kid than it is to an adult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Dd 10 is reading the Betsy, Tacy & Tib books; These happy golden years. Ds 6 1/2 is reading whatever 'readers' I pick up from the libs. Dd 5 is reading Amelia Bedelia and the reader's version of Little House on the Prairie books. Dd 2 whatever board books she can find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kristiana Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 My 8yo is reading The Westing Game. He just finished Doctor Dolittle and has recently been devouring everything by Dick King-Smith and Roald Dahl. 5yo loves Poppleton books by Cynthia Rylant and Frog and Toad books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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