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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know I know, the crap isn’t crap, kids should read whatever they like.

What does your 4th or 5th grader read? Please share any books that have some literary merit. [/quote]

Kids should *NOT* read whatever the like. Do you let them eat whatever they like? After all, a calorie is a calorie! No? They don't let them read junk either.

You are there to guide them. They only have so much time for reading. Make it good quality reading. [/quote]

+1 to this. We too subscribe to the "junk books" theory of reading.

But I let my kids read junk books sometimes, as long as the values don't contradict our values, just like I let them have cupcakes sometimes. And I work really hard to pick meat and spinach books that I think they will actually like.

Current 5th grader's reads include:

- Princess Academy series by Shannon Hale
- 100 Cupboards series by N. D. Wilson
- Greenglass House series by Kate Milford

Books at school they have read so far this year that I'd recommend (we're at a private that does whole class novels, which I love, but not all of them everyone would pick for their families):

- Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw[/quote]

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