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Please recommend some great books for my son



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bluesclues  




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 6:13 pm
he is bh 7 and loves to read
I feel like he read it all so please help us find something new.
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btMOMtoFFBs




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 6:22 pm
I have been reading the Little House on the Prairie series to my boys 6 and 8. Laura is about their age in the first two books, so they find it very interesting to hear how she lived.

The Farmer Boy book is about Almanzo (Laura's future husband) when he is 8 and living on a farm in upstate NY. My boys are amazed at all the farm work the children did in those days, they can't quite imagine themselves doing all that labor.

They also love all the Boxcar Children books. There are at least 30 of them. I think they are totally clean and age appropriate.

Many of the earlier Beverly Cleary books (published in the 50's and 60's) are clean and nice, too. These are the Ramona, Henry Huggins and Beezus stories. Her later stories about Ramona are very groovy and 70's-ish and just not as good. Cleary also wrote The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Its very nice.
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elf123




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 6:24 pm
Depending on his reading level, he may enjoy the Tintin series. My boys (9 and 11) love it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.....intin
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  bluesclues




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 6:32 pm
btmom thanx he read those books and loved them all
elf wow a new series I'll definitly check out barnes and noble this week
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Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 6:40 pm
My kids enjoyed all the books by Ron Roy (A-Z Mysteries; Capital Mysteries, etc.) at that age. If you don't mind sports-related plots, Matt Christopher and Mike Lupica write tons of stories that my boys loved.
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PinkFridge




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 7:52 pm
This came up on the Harry Potter list: www.chinuch.org . The list is pretty good, too long to print out so I may spend some time going through it and writing down names of books we haven't got to yet.
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de_goldy




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 22 2009, 8:50 pm
Exiled Down Under - excellent book. Might be a little too advanced, depends on your son's level.
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