Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Need more book suggestions for DS6

I have seen my DD occasionally regress by over regularising verbs in written text. It freaked me out a bit until DW, a high school teacher pointed out that this is common before a growth spurt or developmental milestone is attained.

I stopped worrying and things did self correct. My DD occasionally reverts back to reading How To Tame Your Dragon and Gerenimo Stilton books so I wouldn't pay undue attention to this. He will be over it soon enough I expect.

He can read whatever--that's okay...I'm just concerned about what is going on in his head, YK? He was weeping about this--completely worked up about it. This kid! He seems so easy most of the time and then something like this will pop up.

I also wonder if someone told him he is too young to read what he reads, or something? Perhaps he is feeling the asynchronicity all of a sudden? Library trips have gotten weird because he and DD10 sometimes are reading the same things now. She is not emotionally ready for YA yet, so at times they're both reading the same types of higher-grade fantasy, though she certainly reads thing he would not due to topics and plot subtleties.

Maybe buy him a "Big Nate" book, or if you can deal with it, Captain Underpants? It is light reading, definitely, but longer, and typically loved by 6 year old boys. It might be a good segue to get him back to the other books he likes to read.

Aw, my ds was such a sweet tender heart at that age too! Here are a few series we enjoyed after the ones you listed:

A few sweet series to try: Humphrey books! He is a class hamster. Geronimo Stilton, head of a mouse newspaper/adventure books
Mysteries: Cam Jansen, Bones, The Mysterious Benedict Society (we LOVE those!), Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys, the 39 series, A to Z Mysteries, Magic Tree House
General: The Chocolate Touch, Chocolate Fever, Lemonade War series
Classics: Narnia, Matilda, Shiloh, Old Yeller, The Yearling, Where the Red Fern Grows, Pippi Longstocking, Sounder, White Fang, Hatchet, etc.

Enjoy!