It's not as much work as you might think, BronxMom. An online library search will do it for you (if your library has its catalog online, or a trip to the catalog if it's not online).

Our library even has an educator's card available, so there are no fines and we can keep things for 3 months! LOVE that!

Just request anything and everything that looks interesting and relevant to the topic. You don't have to prep it all beyond flipping through to check reading level and relevance when you go to check the books out. Just let him wade through it all and talk with you about it, write about it, work with it.

You can even have with him a "Here's the deal..." speech so that he understands that he can learn all about his pet interest, but that he has to meet certain standards AND cover all school subjects, or the books go back to the library. That's the deal: take it or leave it.

That's how I'd approach it!

Kriston