Help a desperate mom!!

amother

OP ↓

Thu, Sep 12 2024, 12:13 pm

My kids need excellent quality literature. I will go crazy over YT without a nice large stack of books.

Please give me your recommendations!

My son is in 4th/5th grade but reads well above that. Loved the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series. He read it 2 years ago to show his reading level. So maybe 8/9th grade? Super smart. (But obviously some topics are too old for his age so hence my issue).
Daughter is 2-4th grade reading level.

Needs to be from public library.
Violence ok for my son.
Needs to be clean in terms of intimacy and dating. I was ok with Harry Potter level but it was quite vague and in hints.

amother

Tealblue ↓

Thu, Sep 12 2024, 12:29 pm

Here is my reading list for my son from the last few years based on reccomendations- he’s in ninth grade now.

-~S.a. bodeen
X Geronimo Stilton
X Indian in the cupboard
-39 clues
X Alex rider
XGoosebumps
-Five kingdoms
-Phantom tollbooth
-~Wizard of oz
Land of stories
-Secret zoo
-~The gollywhopper games 1,2 and 3
-~Mr. Lemoncellos library series
-~Mary poppins series
-~Most books by andrew Clement
-~The candyshop war 1 and 2
-fabelhaven series by Brandon mull
-~The last of the really great whangdoodle by julie edwards
-~Candy shop war
-Rangers apprentice
-The beyonders
-The borrowers
Henry reed
-The secret garden
-~Gordon korman
Macdonald hall
-~Mr poppers penguins
-~Stuart little
XCharlottes web
-The westing game
-A wrinkle in time
-The great brain
XThe littles
The plant that ate dirty socks series
The lemonade trick series by Scott Corbett
-Garth nix
Charlie bone series
-Septimus heap series
-How to train your dragon series
-Evil librarians series
-Upside down magic series
-The mysterious Benedict society
-The seventh tower
On the run Gordon Korman
-Warriors
XSeekers
-Survivors
XAnne of green gables
-Lookwood- Jonathan stroud
XPremeditated Myrtle
-The planet theives
Stoneheart
XHollow earth
The mark of the thief

-Check out the James Patterson Jr books. Max Einstein, ifunny series. Everyone has different standards but we liked them

-James Riley: story thieves and half upon a time a very cute for 12 to 14-year-olds

Attolia series if he’s a detailed reader

menyms (4 books).
-Narnia
-Lord if the rings
The borrowers
Dickens
Twain
Diana wyn Jones
100 cupboards
p.w. catanese
rondo series. foxcraft. redwall.
e. nesbit books. Edward eager.
holes
the westing game
Wings of fire
Eva ebotson
-story thieves series
Charlie bone series
Black stallion
-Septimus heap series
-~Mastermind 3 book set
Molly moon series

-Tod hunter moon
-Bravelands
XBamboo kingdom
-Beyonders
-Fablehaven
-This can’t be happening at mcdonald hall
-Revenge of magic
-John flanigan
-Chris grabenstein

↑ Aurora

Thu, Sep 12 2024, 12:33 pm

amother Tealblue wrote:

These are all really good

amother

↑ OP ↓

Thu, Sep 12 2024, 3:17 pm

amother Tealblue wrote:

What a list!
What do your symbols mean?
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My son loved some of these books...
Story thieves
Mysterious Benedict
Hobbit series

Didn't like too many talking animals, oddly enough.

Narnia is pretty obvious Christian theology (I asked as a child when I read it) so that one is out...

amother

↑ Tealblue

Thu, Sep 12 2024, 3:39 pm

amother OP wrote:

Those are just my own symbols- x is what he didn’t like and the lines show what he read and what my other kid read so I know not to get it again.