If your second grader loved the Harry Potter series, what are they reading now?

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Anonymous wrote:Try the Prydain books. It's a pentalogy starting with "The Book of Three". The second book, "The Black Cauldron" was turned into a Disney movie. I gave it to one of a pair of 8-yo twins last year and just heard this year at our holiday party that the twins (and their mom) loved the books.

Oops, forgot. These were written by Lloyd Alexander.

My third grader tried them and couldn't do it - language too dense. I read the first one or two out loud to him, but they lack the easy access to the story that HP has.

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Adam Rex's "The True Meaning of Smekday," which was (loosely) the basis for the animated movie Home.

The 39 Clues series - not as well written as Harry Potter, but my kid liked them very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Try the Prydain books. It's a pentalogy starting with "The Book of Three". The second book, "The Black Cauldron" was turned into a Disney movie. I gave it to one of a pair of 8-yo twins last year and just heard this year at our holiday party that the twins (and their mom) loved the books.

Oops, forgot. These were written by Lloyd Alexander.

My third grader tried them and couldn't do it - language too dense. I read the first one or two out loud to him, but they lack the easy access to the story that HP has.

I remember reading them in fifth and sixth grades.

[Anonymous]

The Mary Poppins series is an old standby. Also, if your child is mature enough to handle the last three HP books, which are very dark, then he could handle the Hunger Games trilogy.

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Anonymous wrote:The Mary Poppins series is an old standby. Also, if your child is mature enough to handle the last three HP books, which are very dark, then he could handle the Hunger Games trilogy.

Hunger Games for an 8-year-old?!

[Anonymous]

Hunger Games is much darker, bleaker, and more graphic than the last Harry Potter books. Definitely would not recommend for a second grader.

[Anonymous]

He went into detective and science-fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Isaac Asimov, a little Agatha Christie.

He also liked The Hobbit in second grade.