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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what are the well-written children's books people like?
DS has gone through all the older classics. He will read most anything and doesn't need to be given books that were written to get reluctant readers to read. He gets enough of those from school.[/quote]

I assume you don't need any recommendations from the golden age of children's literature, so here are some newer ideas.

* despite the fact that I find his adult stuff terrible, the YA and JFIC by Brandon Sanderson is actually really well done and hilarious
* Andrew Clements
* more for older elementary (because he touches lightly and non-graphically on quite heavy topics), Gary D. Schmidt
* The Vanderbeekers
* The Penderwicks (and it looks like Birdsall has a new one out that my trusted sources highly recommend) - both Penderwicks and Vanderbeekers will appeal to kids who have read a lot of classics
* The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
* not that new, but Grace Lin's novels
* Maria Parr's books
* The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic
* the writing is uneven (pacing gets very slow at times), but Andrew Peterson's books have so many sparkling moments as to overcome that and will appeal to a kid who is familiar with the older classics
* Kate DiCamillo anything (just pay attention to age, because her older JFIC again deals with heavy topics like Schmidt's)
* Mistmantle Chronicles
* The Wild Robot series

Note that my kids have read all of these, and they don't solve the problem of not knowing what your peers are reading...because they often aren't that.[/quote]

Kate DiCamillo is a great writer

I also read The Swifts books to my kids and Bo At Ballard Creek books. All well written. I can’t stand reading Nancy Drew. [/quote]

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