Hi there! What are your childs fav books or series? I have an eight year old, second grade boy. Just curious on what kiddos are reading. His favs so far are Magic Tree house series, Junie B Jones, and anything spongebob. I'm trying to get him into more books too.
My son preferred individual books.. he's a bit of an advanced reader and enjoyed the following:
Spirit Bear
Witch of Black Bird Pond
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Where the Red Fern Grows <<<< LOVED!!!
Hatchet
Maniac Magee
Cricket in Times Square
Walk Two Moons
Chasing Red Bird
Ruby Holler
Charlotte's Web
Old Yeller (sad but still a good read)
Good luck :)
An oldie...but a goodie...the "Hardy Boys"
Seems so silly ...but got my boys reading years ago!
best
Not all of these are a 2nd grade reading level, but they are a 2nd grade interest level.
Flat Stanley--there are a couple series within this series
Mercy Watson--about a pig and her slightly odd owners
Nate the Great--mystery
Cam Jansen--mystery
Henry and Mudge--boy and his dog
Magic School Bus--based on the picture books and movies
Geronimo Stilton--animal characters
Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot--graphic novels
A to Z Mysteries and Calendar Mystery
Bad Kitty--based on picture books, graphic novel
My Weird School--titles all rhyme with a teacher's name Ms. Daisy is Crazy
My Father's Dragon--trilogy
Time Warp Trio--very funny
Attack of the Shark Headd Zombie--don't think this is a series
Guinea Dog--not suremifmthis is a series guinea pig that acts like a dog
Horrible Harry--there are some companion series as well
Zack Files
Shredderman--deals with bullying in a somewhat humorous way
Marvin Redpost--school stories
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing/Fudge--one of these gives away Santa
My son's "go to" book in first grade was "Captain Underpants". Then, as he developed his reading skills, he LOVED Diary of a Wimpy Kid - he continued to read those on into 4th grade. He's in 5th grade now and still loves the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies.
Just FYI, I'm a huge advocate of cartoon reading - anything to get them motivated to read. My son complained that he didn't like to read until I got him the Captain Underpants books. Then, he was SOLD. My son also enjoys the Chronicle of Narnia series.
Oh...and the Spiderwick books. My son LOVED those.
Good luck!
L.
I just asked Kiddo, which books are your favorites?
Magic Treehouse
Lego Ninjago series
Fly Guy (Ted Arnold, picture books)
Captain Underpants
Tintin (graphic novel, great stuff-- some parents may want to review content as many stories deal with drug smuggling-- I use it as a great way to actually discuss the subject )
He's just started first grade.
My kids both liked Stories from Wayside School, but I can't remember exactly what ages they were. My daughter is 3 years younger than my son, so our bedtime stories (that I read to them) were a wide variety of age groups. I think my son was in 4th or 5th grade and daughter was in 1st or 2nd when we found the Wayside stories.
They are short stories in one book, but multiple books of them. And they are funny in a clever way.
Well my boy kiddo is now 14 but he read and loved ALL of the Magic Tree House books!! I know you said they are favorites as well but I really feel Magic Tree House series gave him the fuel and passion to start reading. He also liked the Goose Bumps series, Football Genius, by Tim Green. Tim Green has a few more books out but I can't remember the names, and they are all sports books. My son also liked the Spiderwick Chronicles, but I think he might have been a bit older for that.
Enjoy!!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Percy Jackson Series.
The following are all series
Junie b Jones
Horrible Harry
The sideways school
The magic tree house
Secrets of Droon
Encyclopedia Brown
Amber Brown
The black stallion
Hank the cowdog
Beverly Cleary Ramona books
anything by Judy bloom
The redwall books
Katie kazoo
Pippie longstocking
Mrs pigglewiggle
Animal ark
Nancy drew
Babysitters little sisters
The following are stand alones
Charlotte s web
Wind in the willows
The little princess
The secret garden
Treasure island
Around the world in 80 days
bambi (the real book not the little golden one)
Alice in wonderland. And also Alice through the looking glass
Jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
When my son was 8 his favorite books were the Aldo Zelnick Series (Artsy Fartsy is the first one), the Big Nate series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. He really enjoyed reading Wonder and Hatchet. He loved reading funny books (joke books. He had one one sports jokes) and history books (He loved one on the Titanic and one on WWII...these are kids books he got from Scholastic). He is 9 now and he is LOVING the Eragon series. He's on the last book. He just finished reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series and loved those. He also loved Harry Potter.
The 100 Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Just go to the Scholastic website.
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
And you can search books by age or other parameters.
Fly Guy
Nate the Great
Rick Riordan series, Goosebumps, Harry Potter
Here are some of my son's favorite series:
Ramona Quimby series (Beverly Cleary)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing series (Judy Blue)
Cam Jansen mysteries (David Adler)
Arthur Chapter Books (Marc Brown)
Ivy + Bean series (author's last name is Barrows)
Ballpark Mysteries (forget the author's name)
He also really liked Charlotte's Web.
I have heard that the A to Z Mysteries are good but we haven't read those yet.
My son loves Horrible Harry books half of them he is in 2nd gr then they get slightly harder to read when he goes to third grade, and the Judy Moody and her brother Stink books
My son loves Ready Freddy !
Erica T. has some awesome answers for you. We read a lot on her list for our 1st and 3rd grade boys. Can't remember if I saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid on her list. They like those too.
It's been awhile...in addition to the other recommendations, I recall Geronimo Stilton was a fun series to read.
