'Shindig'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I did not! I do know I'm behind on her last ... two, I think? So much to read, so little yadda yadda ...
I just read the blurb for the new book -- yay!
And I'm also missing one of her other books, aside from the earlier series, this one, Black Dove, White Raven: [link]
I liked BDWR but it wasn't anywhere near as good as CNV.
I read her fantasy trilogy after CNV and RUF. Not as compelling by a long shot, no.
CNV was one of those rare books that I wanted to read again the second I finished it.
zuisa, completely concur.
The audiobook is REALLY good, too. Amazing readers/actors.
So, my evil genius of a daughter is reading at a 2nd grade level in Kindergarten, and her teacher has run out of books for her to read in the school library (the elementary schools here are split up in a weird way, so her school is PreK-K, and next year she'll go to the 1-2 school, and so on). In class, she's completely bored with the reading material available and basically refuses to practice her written responses to anything they read for class.
Her teacher has asked us to brainstorm an age-appropriate book series she can read on her own, for class, so that she'll have something more engaging to use for reader response lessons. The problem is that this teacher's definition of "age-appropriate" is waaaay more conservative than mine. The rule in our house is, if you can read it, you can read it. (There are some books we keep out of sight because I don't want my 6 or 9 year-old reading, say, Lost Girls, but for the most part nothing is off limits.)
The teacher suggested the Little House books. We thought the Cricket in Times Square series might be good. Both of those have problematic racist bits, though, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of a more modern series at about that reading level that wouldn't raise any red flags with a kindergarten teacher? We also thought of the Ramona Quimby books, but again, so very old!
What about Junie B. Jones? My nephew loves them , there is generally a good message in there and my nephew was a reluctant reader and Junie B. Jones was one of the books he was willing to try on his own.
Junie B Jones or Magic Treehouse?
We also thought of the Ramona Quimby books, but again, so very old!
I loved all these books at her age, along with Cleary's other books.
Old but good: All of a Kind Family. Mr. Popper's Penguins. The 21 Balloons. Pinky Pye.
New: Ivy + Bean. Mercy Watson. Kate Klise has a young chapter book series about circus I think. If your teacher doesn't mind less 'literary' stuff then Warriors, Goosebumps are very popular with 2nd and 3rd graders.
It's a tough age, when the basics are super boring but proper middle grade chapter books are a bit too much. The best books for this age IMO are old.
Jessica - Ivy & Bean, for certain - do you want me to ask HPF? we went through this exact same thing which is when the book blog was born... ( [link] - kind of out of service atm, devolved into emojis for a while too)
Magic Tree House, Stuart Little, Calpurnia Tate, Ramona/Cleary, Mrs. Pigglewiggle
Also maybe a little ahead but keep an eye on Tuesdays in the Castle, A Nest for Celeste, some of the American Girl Doll Books, Rick Riordian...