chapter book recommendations for 4-6 levels

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Holes is excellent, it is the 1st book my daughter actually wouldn’t put down.

Thank you for your input. This will give me somewhere to start! :)

My 8th grade son used to “hate” to read. We read Holes together as a family. The kids would not let me stop, they made me read it to them at a faster rate then I planned. After this my 8th grade son started reading on is own. The next book he read was The Giver he could not put it down, from their he moved to the Star Wars Return of the Jedi Apprentice series, he has read all 20 books. He is now attempting to read The Hobbit for the 3rd time and although still difficult for him is albe to read most of it on his own.

Last night my 12-yr-old son laid down on the sofa
and read a book for 45 minutes, on his own!!!

This is the first time this has ever happened!.

The book - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by CS Lewis.

Then his older sister told him it was a series
and handed him The Magician’s Nephew
and he started reading that too!

Knock me over with a feather!
So I recommend CS Lewis ;-)

Anne

Lisa M. wrote:
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> My 8th grade son used to “hate” to read. We read Holes
> together as a family. The kids would not let me stop, they
> made me read it to them at a faster rate then I planned.
> After this my 8th grade son started reading on is own. The
> next book he read was The Giver he could not put it down,
> from their he moved to the Star Wars Return of the Jedi
> Apprentice series, he has read all 20 books.

Could you give the exact title and name of the author. I tried to search our library catalog and did not get anything that would match the series name/title.

The Star Wars books I don’t know the author of. I have been able to find the Lemony Snicket books on clearance at TJ MAXX and Marshalls for $6.99. My daughter loves those books. The Giver is really good and has an ambiguous ending, it can go either way. Jerry Spinneli has some good ones out. I really liked Stargirl. It has to do with adolescent angst and acceptance. another good one is The Acorn People. I can’t remember the author. .

Have you considered the Harry Potter series for the stronger readers? They really are good and have turned more than a few reluctant readers on to reading.

Star Wars Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They are in the Scholastic series of books. The ISBN for one of the titles The Followers is
ISBN 0-439-13939-2. Pattim gave you the author of the other book. It was the end that my son liked best about this book because he was albe to give it the ended he thought it should have. He did not like the fact that people who were different were not accepted. Also wanted to know how people could learn and grow if the society was “conrolled.” IT is a good book to bring up stimulating conversation.

Lisa M. wrote:
>
> Star Wars Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They are in
> the Scholastic series of books. The ISBN for one of the
> titles The Followers is
> ISBN 0-439-13939-2.

thanks. Found it- the library has 7 titles, enough to get started….

> Pattim gave you the author of the other
> book. It was the end that my son liked best about this book
> because he was albe to give it the ended he thought it should
> have. He did not like the fact that people who were
> different were not accepted. Also wanted to know how people
> could learn and grow if the society was “conrolled.” IT is a
> good book to bring up stimulating conversation.

I was too far in the book before I figured that out; it was a lot more fun once I realized it was *supposed* to be mildly ridiculous!

I like to start with “Stone Fox” which is pretty short (so you could finish it before the school year ended :)) and easy — but even tho’ it’s about a kid, it’s not childish. It’s based on a RockyMountain legend about a boy (11 years old, so not much younger than your kiddos) who enters an adult dog-sled race — yes, a classic Boy/DOg/Cry At The End book that lots of my kids love forever.

My daughter is in the fifth grade (has dyslexia) and likes both the Dear America series and also she has recently read the series with books entitled, “The Girls Against the Boys,” “Girls Revenge.” These books are by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Good luck. Kathy