Books for a voracious 8-year-old reader?

[Anonymous]

Is the warrior cat series scary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The How to Train Your Dragon book series is perfect for an 8-year-old boy because it has the length and vocabulary of a more advanced reader but humor that resonates with little boys. Other books mind loved around that age:

Hazardous Tales series (historical fiction graphic novels)
Ender's Game
The Giver quartet
Wrinkle in Time series
Maze Runner series

I'm most recently familiar with the Giver series, which is way too mature in content for an 8 year old. The poster with the long list is more on track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The How to Train Your Dragon book series is perfect for an 8-year-old boy because it has the length and vocabulary of a more advanced reader but humor that resonates with little boys. Other books mind loved around that age:

Hazardous Tales series (historical fiction graphic novels)
Ender's Game
The Giver quartet
Wrinkle in Time series
Maze Runner series

I'm most recently familiar with the Giver series, which is way too mature in content for an 8 year old. The poster with the long list is more on track.

Enders Game and Maze Runner are also way too mature. Those are middle or high school books. Wrinkle in Time is also too old for an 8 yo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The How to Train Your Dragon book series is perfect for an 8-year-old boy because it has the length and vocabulary of a more advanced reader but humor that resonates with little boys. Other books mind loved around that age:

Hazardous Tales series (historical fiction graphic novels)
Ender's Game
The Giver quartet
Wrinkle in Time series
Maze Runner series

I'm most recently familiar with the Giver series, which is way too mature in content for an 8 year old. The poster with the long list is more on track.

Enders Game and Maze Runner are also way too mature. Those are middle or high school books. Wrinkle in Time is also too old for an 8 yo.

+1 to the bolded. That totally freaked me out as a 4th grader (though my own kid read it in 4th just fine).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The How to Train Your Dragon book series is perfect for an 8-year-old boy because it has the length and vocabulary of a more advanced reader but humor that resonates with little boys. Other books mind loved around that age:

Hazardous Tales series (historical fiction graphic novels)
Ender's Game
The Giver quartet
Wrinkle in Time series
Maze Runner series

I'm most recently familiar with the Giver series, which is way too mature in content for an 8 year old. The poster with the long list is more on track.

Enders Game and Maze Runner are also way too mature. Those are middle or high school books. Wrinkle in Time is also too old for an 8 yo.

I'd be fine with The Giver or Wrinkle in Time for an 8yr old advance reader(assuming 3rd grade). Maze Runner and Enders Game I'd save for 5th grade or MS.

+1 to the bolded. That totally freaked me out as a 4th grader (though my own kid read it in 4th just fine).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the warrior cat series scary?

Cats battle, fight, sometimes die. But, boys like battle stories. I would say the narrative arcs are very familiar from human stories.

They are not creepy/suspenseful or horror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the warrior cat series scary?

Cats battle, fight, sometimes die. But, boys like battle stories. I would say the narrative arcs are very familiar from human stories.

They are not creepy/suspenseful or horror.

DP. My oldest was late to that series, but my middle read it in 4th. Haven't given it to my 8 year old 3rd grader yet. Will probably wait a year.

[Anonymous]

Wayside School series. Fairly intelligent humor for the age group. There's a whole "who's on first" skit in one of the chapters

[Anonymous]

OP my 8yo is similar! He was reading Dragon Masters and Magic Treehouse too but has lost interested in the former. Recently started Diary of a Wimpy kid and seems to enjoy it! ALso got him the first How to Train Your Dragon book but he seemed a bit intimated by the length and hasn't tried yet.

[Anonymous]

Harry Potter
Diary of a wimpy kid
I survived series
Who is/what is series
Big Nate series
Any Dahl book
Narnia series
Horrible History series

We also listen to different podcasts and audio books that have more advanced vocabulary so he can learn the pronunciations of words.. Nat Geo has a really great one on Greek Mythology (Greeking out) and then we are going through some classics (i.e. Swiss Family Robinson) which have a very different style of writing and syntax and vocab.

[Anonymous]

There are many books suggested here that while he could read them they were too much for my 7 year old content wise. I don't recommend Ronald Dahls books, The Wings of Fire Books, and the Chronicles of Narnia books for sensitive children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The How to Train Your Dragon book series is perfect for an 8-year-old boy because it has the length and vocabulary of a more advanced reader but humor that resonates with little boys. Other books mind loved around that age:

Hazardous Tales series (historical fiction graphic novels)
Ender's Game
The Giver quartet
Wrinkle in Time series
Maze Runner series

Enders game is not for an 8 yo.