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    I had an old thread on this, but I can't find it.

    DS6 is a very good reader who reads fast and keeps me on my toes. I am looking for some suggestions that I might not know about--pretty familiar with the everyday stuff. Here's the deal:

    1) Nothing sad (scary is okay, sad is not)
    2) No school/social nuance/boy-girl themes
    3) Fast pace is important (he will lose interest if there is a lot of slow scene-setting) but high-level vocab is okay
    4) Fiction preferred over nonfiction
    5) Will read about girls as well as boys
    6) Prefers either fantasy or funny real-life stories
    7) ETA: doesn't like mysteries

    We have done all of Dahl, Cleary, and Blume, most of Magic Treehouse (ugh), all of Droon, E. Nesbit, Indian in the Cupboard, Moomintroll, Narnia, Edward Eager, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, EB White, and he's about to start the third Harry Potter, after which I plan to cut him off. Unfortunate Events is above him. I would say anywhere from 3rd-6th grade level is okay, but he has definitely lost interest in books that were too internal.

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    Is Percy Jackson too much? (I guess it has some boy-girl themes.) How about The Mysterious Benedict Society?

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    Beverly Cleary's Ralph S. Mouse series and her Henry Huggins books. Love the Mysterious Benedict Society. Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mysteries. The Black Stallion books. Misty of Chincoteague books. Albert Payson Terhune's books about his collies, e.g. Lad of Sunnybank. James Herriot books. (I obviously got on an animal theme.) How about Encyclopedia Brown? Time Warp Trio. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. The Great Brain. Last of the Great Whangdoodles. DD read some of these when she was 5-7.

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    Have you looked at either the Warriors or Guardian of the Gahoole series? My ds loved both of those series.

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    I'll look at Percy Jackson and see. DD rejected Benedict Society a couple years back so I guess I think of it as uninteresting, but other kids like it, yes? Though he is not so into mysteries--is it one?

    He has read some Time Warp Trio but I felt like some of it was over his head. He read the first Gahoole book before getting sidetracked by Harry Potter, so may go back to that. I feel like Warriors may be too wordy, but that's probably silly since he's reading Harry Potter? It just seems a little more blah dee blah and less high interest/action.

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    Originally Posted by ultramarina
    I feel like Warriors may be too wordy, but that's probably silly since he's reading Harry Potter?

    Um, yes! Lol!

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    K or 1st grade?

    Or young 6 or old?

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    K, just turned 6

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    Half Magic series by Edward Eadgar.
    Dealing with Dragons by Patrica Wrede

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    What about books by Jules Verne? Also PG Wodehouse?

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