Books for a voracious 8-year-old reader?
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If the Mercy books are too short, there's also the spin-off Tales from Deckawoo Drive books that are GREAT. Plus any other Kate DiCamillo except the ones for older readers like Beverly Right Here. |
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Marcy the Pig is too easy of a read for a voracious reader. It’s like second grade material or even lower. |
Anonymous
Did you read OP? Her son is an advanced reader. |
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My advanced readers read it in K (though we'd been reading it aloud for years before). However there's no harm in going back and re-reading easy books, even for advanced readers. My kids re-read books that are too easy for them the same way they eat comfort food - because it's familiar and soothing. Then they dive into something hard like Wingfeather Saga (which is too much for a sensitive reader, but so good). |
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OP didn’t say her son was an advanced reader. She said he needed something SLIGHTLY more advanced than Dog Man, Cat Kid, and Investi-Gators. |
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My 8 year old likes Mac B Spy Kid!
He also still likes Dragon Masters (but we finished it) so we started The Last Fire Hawk series too. If your kid is ready for the next level maybe try some of the shorter Roald Dahl books. George's Marvelous Medicine, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile are all quick reads to gauge how he likes that type of thing. Also, Ramona Quimby is still lots of fun. |
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Yes, love the bolded. My kids zipped through D'Aulier's myth books in 2nd/3rd and it prepared them well for various ancient history units that were around the same time or a few years later. Plus Percy Jackson made a ton more sense. |
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| My son loved that warrior cat series around that age. |
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More book recommendations for your daughter: E. D. Baker Bunnicula Roald Dahl Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle The Phantom Tollbooth Nancy Drew Louisa May Alcott The Secret Garden The Little Princess The Wolves of Willoughby Chase How to Eat Fried Worms Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine Kate Klise Choose Your Own Adventure Books Pippi Longstocking All of a Kind Family Encyclopedia Brown Einstein Anderson Louis Sachar Danny Dunn Ben and Me Liza, Bill, and Jed mysteries by Peggy Parrish Just-So Stories by Kipling (as a read-aloud) - the prose is extremely dense, but beautiful. The individual stories are relatively short and if you read it aloud, it not only aids comprehension but also makes the lyrical quality of the text more evident. You can get illustrated versions. Riki-Tiki-Tavi is also a good read, but it’s short. |
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Unplugged, anything by Gordon Korman
39 clues, books and graphic novels The Wild Robot Series Bunny vs.Monkey Series Big Nate Series Fudge, Superfudge, Tales of a 4th grade nothing, Super fudge The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Anonymous
Yes! My son loved How To Train Your Dragon. Totally different than the movies. |
Anonymous
+1 I've seen 3 boys voraciously tear through that series. |
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OP said she was looking for more advanced books with longer chapters….that doesn’t fit at all with Mercy Watson or Cam Jansen does it? Or even Amelia Bedelia. Those are more early style readers for kids learning to read. |
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These are some chapter book series my strong reading 7 year old has enjoyed. Everything below is longer than scholastic branches books.
Captain Underpants The Box Car Children Goose Bumps Wayside school Judy Blume's Fudge series My Weird School Diary of a Wimpy kid |
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Trumpet of the Swan
Charlotte’s Web The Wild Robot The Mouse and Motorcycle series The Beezus/Ramona/Henry & Ribsy series |