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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Series with graphic novels for some but not all of the books. Wings of Fire got my oldest kid to make the transition because at the time there were only 5 graphic novels and 17 novels. (There are now 10 graphic novels, I think?)

The Warriors books also have 3 graphic novels, but I think the full length novels are a bigger jump in difficulty. The cat naming conventions are like Russian patronymics and nicknames from the 19th century and they replace regular nouns like "spring" and "road" with special cat names like "newleaf" and "thunderpath." (Yes, I hate them, but they're popular among kids!)[/quote]

That was the gateway series for my dd! I started reading the first one aloud to her. I got about halfway through book 1 and couldn't abide it anymore. She just had to see what would happen so read the rest on her own. She is in 8th grade now and has since read the 100+ novels/super editions in the series. She reads avidly in general. My younger dd is less of a reader generally (although scores much higher on reading tests). She found a lot of the earl series like Junie B Jones and Magic Treehouse boring. But around 2nd grade she started enjoying The I survived books, "Alien Next Door," the Chocolate Touch, How to Eat Fried Worms, and Locker 37 series. She then had stamina to move on to all the Kate DiCamillo books in 3rd/4th grade. In our school, 4th and 5th graders have to read a certain number of award winning books each year to get a pizza party at the end of the year. So that was a good inspiration for them. [/quote]

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