Recommend a chapter book series?

[MeAndTheBoys]

My about-to-turn 7 year old DS has become OBSESSED with Nancy Drew. Just something to throw out there because I'm SURE it hasn't crossed your mind yet. I had bought a bunch of old Hardy Boys at a consignment sale b/c those seemed like the "right" thing to get him--but we read one aloud and--they just aren't appropriate for a 6 year old, I don't think--the boys are just so grown up; they can't relate. But Nancy is softer and not scary

But if yours isn't quite wanting that--
N. has loved--
Geronimo Stilton
Boxcar Children (to a degree--he gets tired of them)
Cul-de-Sac kids
E.B. White books (Charlotte's Web, trumpet of the swan, stuart little)
Mouse and the Motorcycle series
Carolyn Haywood--Betsy and Eddie books

good luck!!

Betsy

Originally Posted by SilverMoon

For my little ds.

He's read nearly every Nate the Great our library has. His other favorites at the moment are Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes comics. The library is destined to run out of those soon too. Magic Treehouse books seem like the perfect reading level, but he's been exposed to them so much due to his older siblings, that he has no interest in them. They were my he-gobbled-up-all-the-Nates back-up plan.

His main likes are fast vehicles, power tools, construction, science, mystery and fun/humor. Think 6yo Tim Allen Jr. with a 2nd-3rd grade reading level. His ooky radar is wound pretty tight though, and he doesn't do strong suspense/action well. The dragons and knights my oldest ds gravitated to would make little ds wrinkle his nose and say, "No, thanks."

(For history and science he's in the ancients and astronomy, but he reads on all sorts of topics.)

[Kleine Hexe]

I posted a similar post.

[Lori D.]

DETECTIVE SERIES

Easy Stepped Readers
Detective Dinosaur (and sequel) (Skofield)
Inspector Hopper (Cushman)
Aunt Eater Detective series (Cushman)

Gentle Chapter Books
A to Z Mysteries (Roy)
Jigsaw Jones (boy detective series) (Prellar)
Third Grade Detective series (Stanley)
High Rise Private Eyes series (Rylant)
Invisible Inc. series (Levy)

Longer Chapter Books
Casebook of Seymour Sleuth series (Cushman)
Boxcar Children series (Warner)
mystery books by Wayne Madsen
Incredible Journey books (Berry)



OTHER SERIES
Commander Toad series (Yolan) -- high on humor
Moongobble and me series (Coville)
Riddle series (Eisenberg & Hall) -- book after book of riddles, each on a related topic (i.e., puppies; rabbits; etc.)
Flat Stanley Worldwide Adventures series (Brown)
Billy and Blaze series (Anderson)
Dragonslayer Academy series (McMullan)
Thornton Burgess series
Great Illustrated Classics series
Magic School Bus chapter book series -- science
True Tales chapter book series -- non-fiction science/animals



BOOKS BY MARGARET DAVIDSON (biographies)
Thomas Edison
Louis Braille
Helen Keller
Five True Dog Stories
Five True Horse Stories
Nine True Dolphin Stories



BOOKS BY CLYDE BULLA (historical adventures)
Riding the Pony Express
Viking Adventures
The Sword in the Tree
The Secret Valley
A Lion to Guard Us



INDIVIDUAL TITLES
A Grain of Rice (Pittman)
Light at Tern Rock (Sauer)
Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure; Dolphins and Me (Grover)



Also, consider looking at the upper level "stepped" readers -- there are some really great titles in there that our DSs enjoyed immensely at that age:

The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Little)
The Trojan Horse: The World's Greatest Adventure (Davies)
Robin Hood: Tale of the Great Outlaw Hero (Bull)
Gargoyles (Dussling)
Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles (Maynard)
Pirates: Raiders of the High Seas (Maynard)
Fly on the Ceiling (Glass) -- very fun!
Titanic: Lost and Found (Donnelly)
Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly)
Spies! (Pratt)
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Murphy/Walz) -- very fun!
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore)
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (Coerr)
Jumbo: World's Biggest Elephant (Worth)
The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician (Kulling)
Little Sure Shot: Annie Oakley (Spinner)
Man O'War: The Best Racehorse Ever (Mckerly)
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford)
Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore)
Horse Named Seabiscuit (Duvowski)
Moonwalk (Donnelly)
Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski)
Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome)
USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson)
Finding the Titanic (Ballard)
Mountain Climbing: Scaling the World's Highest Peaks (Martin)
Greg's Microscope (Selsam)
Hill of Fire (Lewis)
Pompeii... Buried Alive! (Davis)
Race Into Space (Arnold)
Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin)
Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling)
Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid (Redmond)
Aladdin (Kerven)

[Osaubi]

My ds likes Dinosaur Cove series.


http://www.scholastic.com/dinosaurcove/

[TaraTheLiberator]

Dragonslayer Academy

Secrets of Droon

Moongobble and Me

The Stories that Julian Tells and sequels

And I second the suggestion of Clyde Robert Bulla books. My dd is into those right now.

Tara

[linders]

and Capital mysteries (both by Ron Roy), the Littles series (Petersen), Boxcar Children, and the Flat Stanley series.

Right about Magic Treehouse level, enjoyed by both my DS.

[Melissa H. in GA]

recommend books Clyde Robert Bulla. My reluctant reader has read about 6 of these on his own and loves them.

I also will second the author Carolyn Haywood. My ds is almost finished _Little Eddie_ and has asked me to ILL more of this series.

Melissa

[JudoMom]

My ds7 is liking Flat Stanley these days.