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Hi Guys:
While stressing about the 7th grade I found this list

http://www.pwcs.edu/beville/IB/IBMYP%20Documents/IBMYP_SummerReading07.pdf

I liked it because it provided different books for girls and boys.

Ania

The third Percy Jackson book came out a couple months ago. My kids and I love this series! Other good middle schoolish reads are :

Ida B.-
Millicent Min: Girl Genius- Lisa Yee
Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce (some of her other works may be a bit mature for ten year olds, but I have allowed my 10 yo son to read them)
The Young Royals series- Carolyn Meyer
The Bartimaeus Trilogy- Jonathan Stroud
The Bromilead Trilogy- Terry Pratchett

We recently gifted a young friend with the two Blue Balliett books, and accompanied them with a set of pentominoes, a Mike Venezia "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists" book on Vermeer, and a Frank Lloyd Wright paper Robie house model. I think it went over well!

I should post here more often as my son reads at least a book per week. He usually reads two at a time.

I liked to share the title of a book that DS10.9 bought last night. He was actually somewhat shaking with excitement as he waited to pay for it because it was a complete surprise to him that a sequel to a favorite book was expected.

�The Land of the Silver Apples� By Nancy Farmer

It is the sequel to �The Sea of Trolls�


He said that he learned quite a bit about Norse mythology from the first book.

Ghost is crazy right now about anything written by Clive Cussler.
5th grade daughter finished recently Watership Down and today started reading All Things Great and Small. She wants to read it for a 5th grade book report.LOL. Can you beat that?
(she wants to be a vet!!!)

My 9 yo son loves the Warrior series by Erin Hunter. After the first six there is another Warrior series (The New Prophesy) that he's just starting.

My 11 yo son loved "The Takers"- the first in a trilogy by R.W. Ridley. He doesn't read a lot, so when he devoured that I had to run out and get the second one: "Delon City". He was reading it today in the carpool.

My 13 yo reads everything--can't keep track. Currently he's reading "Cabin Pressure" by Josh Walk.

Hi,
My son has just read the first two books of the �Angle Experiment� series by James Patterson.

�Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment�

�Maximum Ride: School's Out � Forever�
(He finished this one in two days!)

We just ordered �Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports�. He can�t wait.

He is also currently reading the �Odyssey� by Homer, but I think I will order a different translation. I have heard that the Fagles translation is excellent.

Ds11 and I enjoyed the Maximum Ride group. If your son is reading the Odyssey, he'll probably also enjoy the Percy Jackson series, which DS and I just finished. Let me know what you find as far as Odyssey translations because there is so interest in DS now. He is even forming a guild on World of Warcraft based on the Olympian Gods.

Trin

For those of you with little ones, DS3 has been crazy for any of the Magic School Bus picture books (Author is Joanna Cole). I enjoy reading them to him and learn from them also.(they make chapter books also, we have read one about bats that he seemed to also enjoy.)