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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 17, 2020 22:47:18 GMT
I am trying to find books that my boys will like, especially now that we are doing distance learning. My 3rd grader liked some of the "Who is" books (Who is Kobe Bryant, etc). He also likes graphic novels. I would like him to read some other chapter books. He is a good reader but sometimes gets overwhelmed when looking at a book that he thinks is too long. I am fine with reading it with him.
My 6th grader likes sports books but is open to other ideas. Again, if there is a series that we could all read together, that would work as well.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Post by pierkiss on Nov 17, 2020 22:52:17 GMT
For your 3rd grader: get, The Bad Guys series!!!! Not even kidding, it is wildly hysterical and he (and all of you!) will LOVE it. You should probably read them in order. Each book goes into the previous. These are the books that got my oldest son to love reading. He loves them so much that he preorders the next one when he gets amazon gift cards for his birthday and holidays.
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Post by mags243 on Nov 17, 2020 23:52:34 GMT
My 7 year old reads at a 3rd grade level and loves the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and 13-Story Treehouse books. His favorite is the Tom Gates series, but it's British and hard to find in the US.
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Post by paigepea on Nov 17, 2020 23:56:25 GMT
For gr 6 would be so any of the Haddix books : shadow children series, the missing series
What about school for good and evil series
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Post by ntsf on Nov 18, 2020 0:30:32 GMT
treehouse books.
for an good reader 6th grade.. hornblower books.
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Post by luckyjune on Nov 18, 2020 0:46:16 GMT
I second the Haddix books. I read the first one in the series to my 7th graders each year. They love it.
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Think teenage James Bond.
Lots of my 7th grade boys like the Rick Riordan books. He has at least 7 series. The Percy Jackson series is one of his.
Gary Paulson books are good survival/adventure stories. My favorite of his is not a survival story, but called Harris and Me.
Books by Gordon Korman are good too. No More Dead Dogs and Restart are great stories.
Mike Lupica books for kids who love sports.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 18, 2020 1:07:48 GMT
My DS really got into Bruce Coville’s books at that age. He really loved the Rod Albright series
Aliens ate my homework
I left my sneakers in Dimension X
The search for Snout
Alien’s stole my body
Also my teacher is an alien
After that he seemed to like the Percy Jackson books
Some of his friends like the Septimus Heap books but he never got into them I think I enjoyed them more
And then it was the wimpy kid books
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 18, 2020 1:46:19 GMT
luckyjune my 3rd grader brought home a Gordon Korman book (Hunting the Hunter) last week before they went to distance learning. He said he just grabbed it but didn't look at it. But now he thinks it looks like it is for older kids. Maybe the 6th grader will read it. Youngest DS also brought home two Amulet books and I got the first in the series from the public library today. I know he has read a few Bad Guys and Wimpy Kid books as well. Lots of great ideas in the thread!
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Post by paigepea on Nov 18, 2020 2:22:55 GMT
I second the Haddix books. I read the first one in the series to my 7th graders each year. They love it. The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Think teenage James Bond. Lots of my 7th grade boys like the Rick Riordan books. He has at least 7 series. The Percy Jackson series is one of his. Gary Paulson books are good survival/adventure stories. My favorite of his is not a survival story, but called Harris and Me. Books by Gordon Korman are good too. No More Dead Dogs and Restart are great stories. Mike Lupica books for kids who love sports. My dd also liked Gordon Korman in Gr 6. |
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Post by muggins on Nov 18, 2020 3:19:44 GMT
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins is the first in the Underland Chronicles. They are great adventure books suitable for your 3rd grader. I would also highly recommend anything by British comedian David Walliams. He is very Ronald Dahl in his style and illustrations, but tackles current topics very well. My local library here in MI has a few of his books, but you can probably order them from Amazon too. They’re very funny, and sometimes a bit gross which kids love.
My 9th grader just read the kid version of Born A Crime by Trevor Noah and loved it. I’d be happy to send it to you if you think your 6th grader would enjoy it.
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Post by lemondrop on Nov 18, 2020 4:23:12 GMT
My DS loved the Deltora Quest series (and actually, so did I!)
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 18, 2020 4:56:47 GMT
For your 3rd grader: get, The Bad Guys series!!!! Not even kidding, it is wildly hysterical and he (and all of you!) will LOVE it. You should probably read them in order. Each book goes into the previous. These are the books that got my oldest son to love reading. He loves them so much that he preorders the next one when he gets amazon gift cards for his birthday and holidays. Thank you for the suggestion! I just ordered the first five book box set for my ds for Christmas. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 18, 2020 5:27:18 GMT
I second the Haddix books. I read the first one in the series to my 7th graders each year. They love it. The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Think teenage James Bond. Lots of my 7th grade boys like the Rick Riordan books. He has at least 7 series. The Percy Jackson series is one of his. Gary Paulson books are good survival/adventure stories. My favorite of his is not a survival story, but called Harris and Me. Books by Gordon Korman are good too. No More Dead Dogs and Restart are great stories. Mike Lupica books for kids who love sports. My dd also liked Gordon Korman in Gr 6. We have read several of his books between last year and this year (5th, but she reads above grade level) and my DD liked them. All of the ones we’ve read have been mysteries if your kids like that. I will heartily second the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, both kids might like them because they’re so funny. My kid still loves getting those and I bought them all because she has read every one of them multiple times. We picked up some through Scholastic, got some from a used bookstore, some from Amazon and others at Costco. In hindsight I should have just bought the whole set from Costco because it would have been much less expensive that way. They have most of them in a boxed set right now at Costco along with the newest book sold separately because it was just released. The 6th grader might also like The Guardians of Ga’Hoole, we burned through all (15?) of those books in record time because my kid loved them so much. We read the first three books of the followup series Wolves of the Beyond too, but the next books have been a little harder to get. Right now we’re working our way through The Children of the Lamp series and she is really liking those too. She checked the first book out from the school library on a whim and ended up liking it so much that I tracked down a set of the entire series on eBay for her birthday. The 3rd grader might really like the Fudge books by Judy Blume, starting with Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing. My kid read all of the books in that set last year but she probably could have easily handled reading them in 3rd. |
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Nov 18, 2020 5:38:09 GMT
My son is reading at the 3rd grade level and he's reading the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series. He also likes the Stink Moody series and Dog Man but those may be easier reading.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Nov 18, 2020 5:44:00 GMT
For your 3rd grader: get, The Bad Guys series!!!! Not even kidding, it is wildly hysterical and he (and all of you!) will LOVE it. You should probably read them in order. Each book goes into the previous. These are the books that got my oldest son to love reading. He loves them so much that he preorders the next one when he gets amazon gift cards for his birthday and holidays. Thanks for the suggestion, I had not heard of the series but it looks good. |
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Post by lucyg on Nov 18, 2020 5:52:34 GMT
I still read nightly to the 11yo when he’s here. It’s relaxing for both of us. We’ve read the entire Harry Potter series and we’re currently rereading book 7. We started reading the Percy Jackson books (by Rick Riordan) when he was in 3rd or 4th grade. There are a million Rick Riordan books and all the different series are tied back to Percy Jackson somehow or another. They are a lot of fun, not just for him but for me, too. He got tired of them eventually (after like a dozen books), but I kept reading.  (They are adventure books based on Greek mythology ... the kids are all the modern-day American children of gods/goddesses and humans.) Oh, this is a book that was recommended by his 3rd grade teacher that we both really loved: The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, by Leslie Connor. Also Holes by Louis Sachar (a Newbery winner) which I thought was the best kid’s book I’d ever read, at least until we read Mason Buttle.  |
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Post by candygurl on Nov 18, 2020 13:17:53 GMT
I have a third grader and he loved reading:
Mac B kid spy series by Mac Barnett
Last Kids on Earth series
Ben Braver series
A book series by Neil Patrick Harris about magic (can’t remember name)
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Post by lucyg on Nov 18, 2020 23:43:19 GMT
I thought of another series we liked. The Home Team series by Mike Lupica (the sportscaster) ... I think the first one was called The Only Game. They’re about a group of four friends and four different sports (plus life lessons). We read the first three books last year in 5th grade and he really enjoyed them. We haven’t read book 4 yet because the fourth friend is (lord help us) a girl. So he isn’t interested. Dork. Mike Lupica has a bunch more sports-themed books for kids, but these are the only ones we’ve read. ETA I’ll be happy to send these Home Team books to you if you like. I don’t think we’ll reread them. iamkristinl16 |
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Nov 19, 2020 4:18:40 GMT
For your 3rd grader: get, The Bad Guys series!!!! Not even kidding, it is wildly hysterical and he (and all of you!) will LOVE it. You should probably read them in order. Each book goes into the previous. These are the books that got my oldest son to love reading. He loves them so much that he preorders the next one when he gets amazon gift cards for his birthday and holidays. Thanks!! I ordered the first few for my third grader and me to read. We’ve read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and a similar series called Big Nate. We’ve been looking for another series to read before bedtime. He likes the Magic Treehouse books but he likes to read those at school during free reading time. His second grade teacher started the Boxcar Children with his class but he hasn’t gotten too in to those at home. We’ve also tried Encyclopedia Brown books (which I loved as a kid) but since we usually read before bedtime, the mysteries are sometimes a little more challenging than they would be during the day or during peak waking hours. |
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(They are adventure books based on Greek mythology ... the kids are all the modern-day American children of gods/goddesses and humans.)
