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DD8 is reading Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 for school, and The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid (for the bazillionth time) at home.

dd6 reading tale of despereaux -nice story by Kate decamillo, may take whole week

DS9 is reading Andy Griffiths - Just Shocking (tacky boy stuff).

DS7 is reading The Order of the Phoenix, and various Pokemon books.

Hahahaha! DD8 is on HP Order of the Phoenix. That's the first one the gets REALLY long...she got SDB from the other 3rd grade teacher. Disgusting, but it made her smile and school related things generally don't . I think it's a sign of the times that we even pander to children in that way...in an effort to get them to read at all, they are offered tripe like that when there are wonderful books that are still fun and funny without being gross.

On the other hand, I too enjoy a good fart joke from time to time, though I do not allow the use of the word FART in my house

ok...I give up...since I let DD8 come home and we are probably going to homeschool, she is getting far more reading time and we've been at the library probably 3 or 4 times in the past 2 weeks! I can't keep up!

She's working on HP Order of the Phoenix...that's taking a while because she got distracted by a great illustrated greek mythology book, a couple Geronimo Stilton's, some "scary stories for sleepovers" (short stories) and now an "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fantasy", full of elves, wizards, etc...

I consider it developmentally-appropriate humor, which fits in with my overall "let kids be kids" philosophy. It takes a while to appreciate more subtle humor like irony, but potty humor is instantly accessible. So not only do I permit it, I indulge.

My daughter recently had a homework assignment in which she had to give a parent a test on her spelling words, and we had to do it twice, because I wrote "poop" eleven times on the first one.

I mainly dislike the SDP books because Ethan already has a tendency to be very silly, and it seems like that book ratchets it up to 100!

Hello, my 4th grader is enjoying Eargon series. Great Fanasty Also last year he read The Mysterous Benedict Society series and loved it!!! Great Mystery!

Ds is reading "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry at school, and I think "How to train your dragon" as bedtime reading.

The best part about books like that is having my rather proper mother call to say, "Ds left 'Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets' here."

DS11 is reading some kind of manga
DS10 is reading a Murderous Maths book
DD8 is reading a Rainbow Fairy Princess book and The Indian in the Cupboard