Date: 11/21/2003 11:58:00 AM
From Authorid: 3688
Anne of Green Gables and Little Women have *always* been my favorite children's books. i was about the same reading level too...And even if they're too much for HER to read on her own...you or hubby could read with her. Glad to see more people wanting to get their kids reading   |
Date: 11/21/2003 11:59:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
Oooh Good idea!  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:02:00 PM
From Authorid: 3688
I really liked the Nancy Drew books too, but I'm not sure how old I was when I read them either...ummm....Babysitters Club books? Sorry....hehe books are my specialty lol |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:06:00 PM
From Authorid: 39107
spoil her childhood like that will have effects :-/  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 15228
If she has a 6th grade reading level, how about the Nancy Drew books, I think they are updated now. They also have a young Nancy Drew series. My daughter really liked the baby-sitters club Little House books were my personal favorite. Charlotte's Web (I keep thinking of more as I go on)..  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:10:00 PM
From Authorid: 3688
ack i can't believe i forgot charlotte's web! |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:11:00 PM
From Authorid: 30747
"Charlottes Web" is a good classic. My son likes the book "Holes". "Curious George" I'll have to ask my son. He has read alot and would know better than I what kids these days like.  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 25390
I disagree SPG....sticking a child in front of a video game all day would have more effects in spoiling her childhood. Keth, I LOVE the Bunnicula books!! I read them last summer because I was bored, LOL. What about the LIttle House on the Prairie Series? I also loved the Velveteen Rabbit.  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 3688
there's a sweet valley kids series (i believe) if not there's sweet valley twins which might be up her alley. |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:19:00 PM
From Authorid: 62222
Hmmm....The Chronicles of Narnia were some of my favorites, anything by Lloyd Alexander,(The Book of Three, The Black Couldron etc.), I liked The Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleigne L'Engalle(okay I sooo screwed up the spelling of that). There is a really cool series by Phillip Pullman out, that is newer but pretty good, called "His Dark Materials". I read most of the books you are talking about when I was much, much younger than sixth grade, so I am struggling to remember for you Keth! I read Ursula Le Guin, she did the "Wizard of Earthsea", I read Beverly Cleary too....."Are you there God? It's me Margaret" was a good book...."I am the Cheese"....if I think of any others I'll let you know..<regretfulhalo>  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 62222
How old is your daughter? I almost messed up and put "IT" on here cause it was what I was reading when I was in sixth grade. Something tells me you aren't going to want her to read that just yet!<RegretfulHalo> |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:25:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
Alycia is in Second Grade, she is 8, she already read Charlotte's Web, and I think The Trumpet of the Swan |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:26:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
I never read "Nancy Drew"... I went straight to Agatha Cristie |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 62222
You know, some of EB White's other books aren't that bad either, "Trumpet of the Swan" was a great book. <RH> |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 62401
Is she old enough for Judy Blume? Or Goosebumps books? Do they still have those?? Lindsay  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 42945
Charlottes Web is a good one.....books by Roald Dahl!! my Katrina loves reading, but she is engrossed at present with Harry Potter and is reading the last of them now, she is in yr5 though...she loves receiving books as gifts along with clothes...lol!!! typical female...hugs MIL  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:28:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
I got her 3 Goosebumps books last year... and I think Judy Blume has books for all ages, as does Beverly Cleary |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
where the red fern grows and summer of the monkeys! *By the same author, the name escapes me though* any of the RL Stine stuff...lol umm yeah  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:30:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
I think she is a tad young for "are you there god..." maybe when she is 10 |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 62222
WOW! Clever kid! Hmmm....if she's 8 I you might want to think hard about "His Dark Materials" it gets a little dark, like Harry Potter did in the last two books. My nephew and I just finished those.<RH> |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:31:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
Yeah I remember where the red fern grows, man did I cry!! |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 35720
I was gonna say in 6th grade, I read "To Kill A Mockingbird", but in 6th grade *I* had a tenth grade reading level. Hmm.. the Anne of Green Gables series is awesome for kids with a 6th grade reading level. SMART KID you got.  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 1799
i never read many books when i was younger.. but there were a few things that were cool.. like Holes is pretty good..Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators was a good series.. it was rather interesting to see these middle school boys go around and solve mysteries..lol. there were others i liked, but i can't remember the names... "When the entire fourth grade slept over" was kind of fun..lol. or something like that.  |
Date: 11/21/2003 12:40:00 PM
From Authorid: 12835
War and Peace...  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 12:45:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
The comic book version right St. Pete?? |
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Date: 11/21/2003 1:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 15228
Also The Little Princess and The Secret Garden. |
Date: 11/21/2003 1:44:00 PM
From Authorid: 53909
Secret Garden, Maniac Magee, RL STINE books, Sweet Valley High, Goosebumps, There's A Boy In The Girls Bathroom,  |
Date: 11/21/2003 2:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 32070
Well, that's a lil far back for me to remember :P...but I always liked Charlottes Web and also The Miracle Worker ( Helen Keller) .....  |
Date: 11/21/2003 3:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 58809
I think Goosebumps and Charlotte's Web are too easy for her. At second grade I was past goosebumps and reading those uh..books by R.L. Stine for "teenagers." I have heard that Nancy Drew isn't that bad...but I've never read her books. I remember in 6th Grade I read "The Bridge to Terabithia", "The Whipping Boy" , "Dragonwings", "Diary of Anne Frank"...and Oh! House on Mango Street. I CANNOT Believe some people in my senior class had to read that book for their english class. That's elementary stuff ( at least I think so). -DevilsRoad-  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 3:14:00 PM
From Authorid: 58809
Yeah, I don't know what my reading level was in 6th grade. I read A LOT of books in Kindergarden and throughout elementary and middle school. That's the only thing I liked about my catholic school: They made us read like heck. -DevilsRoad- |
Date: 11/21/2003 3:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 45948
any books by Judy Blume and also I loved "The Baby Sitter's Club" series when I was her age.  |
Date: 11/21/2003 6:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 16705
i would invest in getting her savings bonds for her future plus books and anything else that will help educate her. Hamb918  |
Date: 11/21/2003 6:31:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
the lemony snicket series, words of stone  |
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Date: 11/21/2003 6:54:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18527
LoL Ham... good idea but we're kinda poor now! |
