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DS6 has always adored Carl Barks duck comics (and so have I). Here are a few good'uns. If you decide to explore these, shop around; you can often get them for $5-10 US.

The Otto and Uncle Tooth adventure series is very fun, and probably within your son's grasp to read at a sitting; it's hard to tell from across the web, of course.

You might consider some sort of compendium or treasury with short stories that would be about the length of a long chapter in an early chapter book, like these "scary" stories, many of which are actually quite silly.

The series was never continued past two books, unfortunately, but your son might like the British books "Trouble for Trumpets" and "Trumpets in Grumpetland". They can be quite expensive used, so they're a lurk-and-buy sort of item.

I went to Half Price books and picked up a few Henry and Mudge books. I also emailed his teacher to see what she suggests. I will let you know how he does.

Thank you for the suggestions!

Sheila

Frog and Toad.

I've found that both my kids are/were pretty sensitive to the reading level until they hit about the mid-third grade level. I have used the scholastic book wizard (http://bookwizard.scholastic.com) to find books at the same level as ones that are successes. Henry and Mudge are about the same level as Frog and Toad at DRA 18-20 (early second grade-ish). Cam Jansen is a wee bit higher (20-24), and Dinosaur Cove & My Father's Dragon are higher still (DRA ~ 30).

My kindergarten DS is at about the same level, and progressing at a nearly identical rate and time line. He's mid way through the Frog and Toad series. We also like the set of Rookie Read-About books by Allan Fowler right now. I found them with the Book Wizard as well.