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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to find something similar in theme and difficulty for an eight year old. [/quote]

It is nice your child can "read" these books but he can not 100% comprehend the books and understand them on his own.  Plus, [b]if you start with such advanced older books for 7yr olds, what will he be reading and appreciating at 10, 12, 14?[/b]   Slippery slope of pushing your kids to grow up faster than they need to. [/quote]

I can't speak for what PP's child will be reading in the future, but I was an advanced and voracious reader at age 8 and still found plenty of wonderful books to keep me satisfied at ages 10, 12 and 14.

I can't remember exactly what I was reading at 10, but by 12 I was obsessed with James Michener (started with the Source and then Space), and later on in high school I got into Herman Wouk (Winds of War) and Tom Wolfe (Right Stuff), in addition to all the popular teen and "young adult" books of the time.  Somewhere later in high school I had a big Stephen King phase (Carrie, then The Stand, then all the short stories), plus whatever else seemed interesting at the library.

And that's just me.  One person, 30 or so years ago, before Harry Potter and without the benefit of Goodreads, Amazon, book blogs etc.  
 
To state the obvious, there's a HUGE world of books and literature out there.  HUGE.  There is absolutely NO RISK that PP's child will somehow run out of interesting and age-appropriate books to read in two, four or six years.

True readers see this as a problem of abundance -- too many amazing books, too little time to read them -- not a problem of scarcity.  :-)[/quote]

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