is your son interested in literature?
He loves the way think work books - a great one was transformed - it showed schematics of the processes - like how are potato chips made. I just decided that he was probably ready for the David McCauley version. And anything from DK usually seems great - all the encyclopedias are awesome And from there we can do castles, etc. Non science reading, he loves mysteries so we did the A to Z's, the Capital mysteries and now the Calendar mysteries. Ron Roy was perfect because they were so "nice" no one was mean, there was no pre-teen angst, it was perfect! He really likes the Graeme Base books, waiting for the new one.
Because of his skills, I initially stopped getting him picture books not realizing that he still "needed" to read those. We just read a hilarious one called Chester by Melanie Watt. But he is not reading Harry Potter or Narnia or anything like that which I think he would adore because they all have story elements which would be too scary. Its a tough balancing act between his scientific interests, his reading skill level and his emotional level - which is on the fraidy cat side!
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