Eloise is 8 and also loves reading, at least we are doing something right. She reads quite a bit and has just recently finished her first 400+ page book. She was super excited about it. Here are some of her recommendations for your summer reading.
1. Ramona – Everyone loves Ramona, she’s spunky, funny and sometimes a pest. I just noticed that the final book in the series wasn’t published until 1999, which I definitely didn’t read it. I might need to add it to my summer reading list.
2. Ada Lace – Ada is a new series that we just got from the library recently, the first two anyways. We also just won them from The Mighty Girl website, but haven’t received them yet. Both Greta and Eloise loved them. Ada is a girl who loves science, math and solving mysteries.
3. My Weird School – Again another series that Greta loved and Eloise is currently loving. There are so many of these books, and I never can remember which ones we own and which ones they have read. They are all funny and based on the Ella Mentry School.
4. Bailey School Kids – Another big series, over 80 books in this one! In each book the students encounter a regular person who might be a mythical being.
5. Katie Kazoo (also George Brown and Project Droid also by Nancy Krulik) – Katie Kazoo has long been a favorite around here. Katie switches between herself and another character in each book, leading to funny antics. In the past year I looked up the author of Katie Kazoo and learned she had some other early chapter book series and so off we went to the library. George Brown, class clown and Project Droid were both a hit.
6. Who was books – I’m sure you have seen these books in every store around. They are biography books about different famous people, everyone from Jesus to Princess Diana and everyone in between. There are also What Is books and Where Is books. Lots of topics to interest lots of kids.
7. Heidi Heckelbeck – Heidi Heckelbeck is a witch trying to be a normal girl. These might be better for a slightly younger reader, they have lots of illustrations and fairly large print. Looking on amazon I realized there are several new ones that we haven’t read, off to the library request list.
8. Dog Man – Eloise got these graphic novels for her birthday. They are written by the author of Captain Underpants, which she has also enjoyed. Dog Man is part dog, part human and loves to seek justice.
9. Cam Jansen – Cam Jansen is also better for a slightly younger reader, but Eloise still enjoys them. Both of the older girls tend to read a wide range of reading level books, everything from picture books, to beginning chapter books, to longer chapter books. Cam is another spunky girl (lots of spunky girl books here) who likes to have fun and solve mysteries along the way.
10. And some repeats from her sisters’ list – Thea Stilton and Compass South – Greta added both of these to her list, but Eloise wanted them on as well, so here they are. Thea Stilton goes on adventures around the globe and Compass South is about two pirates traveling the world.
Have you read any of these? Have anything else to recommend?
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My 9-year-old is reading through the Ramona series too. I bet she would really enjoy the Ada Lace and Cam Jensen series since she LOVES science and can often be found playing “detective.” 😉