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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post made me laugh because my 13 year old DS with HFA still gets "stuck" and wants to read the same books over and over and over and over and... well, you get the idea.  He has gone through several different phases.  Luckily, he has passed through the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phase (almost, he still crams them sometimes) and is into the Harry Potter phase.  Here are some books that he loved in early elementary:
- The Gilbert Series by Diane deGroat
- Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
- Horrible Harry books
- The Magic Finger, the Enormous Crocodile, and Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl (his shorter books)
- The Irving and Muktuk Series by Daniel Pinkwater
- Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith and The Chocolate Tough by Patrick Catling

Don't be worried about letting him read picture books.  There are some wonderful ones written at a higher level.  Has he read these?
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Ugly Duckling
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- The Story About Ping
- The Little Match Girl
- Sarah's Story
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+1 on many of these books. Think about the Lexile rating for a moment. The dog man Series has a lexile rating in the upper 300s. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, for instance, has a lexile rating of 700. Even the Doctor Seuss Lucky book as a lexile rating of 640.[/quote]

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