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Does anyone have suggestions for early chapter books that boys will find interesting to read? Nothing with old fashioned language, violence, romance or complex themes.
So far we have made our way though The Magic School Bus, Zac Power and Captain Underpants. I have How to Train Your Dragon on order but would like some titles to give the grand parents for potential Christmas presents.
TIA
Paul jennings series? Im not a boy but loved reading them when i was younger so did my brothers
Unreal, unbelievable, round the twist etc
What is wrong with old fashioned language? The Victorian wrote the most beautiful prose. I guess Oliver twist and Tome Sawyer are out....
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is popular here.
The first harry Potter (Philosopher's stone)
The Series of unfortunate events
The 13/26 etc story treehouse
Roald Dahl (although they have lots of violence)
My older boy loves the Lonely Planet Not For Parents series and he also like Horrible Histories (lots of violence in them).
Grandson has just started Cat in the Hat went Flat. I think the author is Andy Griffiths. DH said alot of the boys in his class love him.
Hardy Boys,
Far out Vegemite series
Magic Faraway series
Selby
Choose you own adventure books are also fun
Tashi is a good one.
My son has asked for the Geronimo Stiltson series for Christmas, he seems to love the books. He also enjoys the Kingdom series, kind of like Narnia but a little easier to read. He's nine if that helps ;)
Goosebumps (or maybe too scary?)
Wimpy Kid
The Indian in the Cupboard
Bridge to Terabithia
Or Judy Blume-
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
SuperFudge
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
I'd recommend geronimo stilton for early chapter books. My son loves them. He's read zac power too but didn't really get into them. Geronimo Stilton are the first books he's really got into and wanted to read and been begging for the next one in the series.
Beast Quest
Boy V Beast
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Dinosaur Cove
Dinosaur Rescue
Roald Dahl
Winnie the Pooh
Captain Underpants
Geronimo Stilton
If he is into Skylanders, there is a Skylanders book series as well.
Tashi is excellent
Also the Aussie nibbles & Aussie bites have variety in manageable chunks.
The magic tree house ( starts with dinosaurs before dark) - pretty simple but good for new independent readers.
Otherwise there's nothing wrong with a good bit of Roald Dahl.
13 story tree house
My 7yo loves 'Saurus Street' and 'Hey Jack.'
MD, I find a fair bit wrong with Roald Dahl (snozzberry anyone...), but nevertheless he has read most of those. He has also read quite a few of those Aussie/NZ bites and nibbles.
The 13 story treehouse and magic tree house sound like they might interest him.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I am sure I will be referring back to this thread in the future.
I didn't know of the snozberry reference until this year. I must be slow lol.:
If you don't mind gross, there are a series of snot books...'Snot Fair', 'Snot Funny' etc....not sure of the author. Hilarious, but gross!
Gary Crew is great - there might be a few at about the right level. Andy Griffiths too.
I second the Judy Blume books.
These are the ones I'd read out loud to my class of 7-8yo. Oh, and Roald Dahl, but... ;)
The rangers apprentice series.
Percy Jackson
Skulduggery pleasant series.
Artemis fowl.
I've got nothing against the snozzberry wallpaper. It makes me lol.
Roald Dahl is great, I'll second that.
This summer I was planning to do Jungle Book or Treasure Island with Liebs, but now you said Tom Sawyer, Onyx... I may hold on that as the early political stuff may go over his head too much. We're going to watch a production of Oliver! next week. Old stories that survive rock.