Isn't that prime Beverly Cleary territory? So Beezus and Ramona, maybe? Or possibly Mouse on a Motorcycle.
We've read those together, and she's reading MoaM at school - and I think she's decided if she's read it with us, it's too hard? I don't know, and I'm working to fix that. Same with Little House - she's read through those with us I don't know how many times.
Encyclopedia Brown especially for that age group, since each chapter is a separate story.
oh right! Excellent idea.
Judy Moody books or the Junie B. Jones books.
I'm googling these now.
When I worked at Waldenbooks 10-15 years ago, the Junie B Jones books were really popular, as were the Boxcar Children ones.
I'm so excited for HKF. Read all the things!
Note: It's not a good idea to read the pre-Feed snippets when one has a high fever.
Signed, Patient Zero
Magic Treehouse series - 2 kids travel to historical settings - about the same skill level as Junie B. - easy chapter books. Slightly harder: Swallows and Amazons (and multiple sequels), anything Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Twenty-One Balloons, Penderwicks.
My favorite favorite book (the first chapter book I ever read, which I then re-read and re-read until my father got so sick of seeing me read it that he took it away and put it on top of the fridge) was "Key to the Treasure" by Peggy Parish.
My favorite favorite book (the first chapter book I ever read, which I then re-read and re-read until my father got so sick of seeing me read it that he took it away and put it on top of the fridge) was "Key to the Treasure" by Peggy Parish.
I remember that book! There were twins, and another brother a little older, and they had a treasure map on an island?
Mine was
Jane-Emily
by Patricia Clapp, about a girl who loses her parents and goes with her very young aunt to her grandmother's house, and the ghost of a child who haunts her there. I still have my copy -- that old Scholastic slightly bigger paperback size (I bought at school at the book fair). The cover's long gone, but the pages are all intact. I'm going to read it with Sara soon.
I remember that book! There were twins, and another brother a little older, and they had a treasure map on an island?
Yes! I think one was a cousin. And there was some story about how a great-grandparent had gone off to war (the Civil War!) and left a note/treasure map for his kids, and the great-grandmom washed it, so no one ever found the treasures....
What's interesting is there was a sequel, which I didn't know about until maybe college or later. My dad could've just given me that! :)
I always liked the Richard Peck books. There were two books that involved ghosts; the second one had a girl who was a medium seeing the dead from the Titanic, IIRC. I'll have to look that one up for its title--it was really excellent!
