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Don't laugh....Trixie Belden
OK- not great lit, but great stories with lots of intrigue. Trixie's brothers Brian and Mart and their friend Jim lend a very strong boy presence to these books. There is plenty of fishing, riding, sledding, camping, exploring, etc.
They also travel around the country and visit interesting places.
We've listened to a few on tape, and my ds really likes them. He was hooked in the first book when Jim Frain had a shotgun 
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Not laughing, but nodding my head in agreement. My son picked these up this year and just loved them. We are on a quest to find more.
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My kids are really into historical fiction now. We just read "Will at the Battle of Gettysburg" prior to this weekend's visit there and we all thought it was great. I saw that the library has some other books in that series from different time periods that we've put on hold.
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I can't remember if I mentioned these on this thread already, but I highly recommend Elizabeth Enright's Gone Away and Return to Gone Away. This is a second summer we've listened to the audio. We're going to try the Melendy Quartet again. We tried 2 years ago...we'll see if this time will work.
And the Wizard of Oz series. I would wait until your child is 6 or older that he can handle magic, but these are delightful. There are many stories, all with morals. We only found 2 audio versions, but my older son read them all through 2x over.
And in a similar genre, Edward Eager Magic books, although none are as good as "Half Magic". That will always be the best one.
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JennGM wrote:
I can't remember if I mentioned these on this thread already, but I highly recommend Elizabeth Enright's Gone Away and Return to Gone Away. This is a second summer we've listened to the audio. We're going to try the Melendy Quartet again. We tried 2 years ago...we'll see if this time will work.
And the Wizard of Oz series. I would wait until your child is 6 or older that he can handle magic, but these are delightful. There are many stories, all with morals. We only found 2 audio versions, but my older son read them all through 2x over.
And in a similar genre, Edward Eager Magic books, although none are as good as "Half Magic". That will always be the best one. |
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Yes! for all of these. My ds loves the Melendy books, plus the Gone Away series. We'll have to try the Wizard of OZ... good tip 
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JennGM wrote:
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I just became aware that L. Frank Baum was a theosophist. Theosophy was condemned by the Church. You will not find direct teachings, but some things might be influenced by his involvement. So I'm just giving a heads up.
His writings are fantasy. I read the whole series growing up, so did all my siblings and cousins. I would say Good and evil are clearly defined, and there is punishment for bad behavior. There is clear definition of character, including character flaws.
That the writings remind me of transcendentalism (like Louisa May Alcott), with everything on the natural level, there is no higher theological level at all. That always bothered me reading Little Women. They were good just to be good, not for a higher plane. But in Baum there is less emphasis on nature, which is high in transcendentalism.
P. L. Travers who wrote the Mary Poppins series was also a theosophist.
It gets frustrating to dig into people's biographies and find all this. 
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I haven't seen it mentioned here, but when browsing through the Rainbow Resource Catalog the other day, I saw a title called Books for Boys and More Books for Boys. I haven't used or seen those booklets, but I thought they sounded interesting.
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JennGM wrote:
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Not laughing, but nodding my head in agreement. My son picked these up this year and just loved them. We are on a quest to find more. |
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One summer, my brother's physical therapist let me borrow her great big box of Trixie Belden books from when she was a girl. I loved them!
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Also, how about the Dave Dawson series? American boy who joined the RAF, encounters Nazis, makes incredible escapes, etc. My brothers all enjoyed them, although I'd say my 9 y.o. is still a bit young, since the books are kind of long. |
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Thanks for this. We finally have a kindle to help our voracious boy reader (as well as for some of his school reading via the Yesterday's Classics library), and I was putting on the Tom Swift series, and when I looked at your link, I realized there are a lot of the Dave Dawson books for free for kindle I put the first one on my wishlist for future reference.
I also came across this Rick Brant series. The reviews are all very good, and given when they were written and how they were described, I assumed they are pretty safe. I'll let you know what we think.
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Bumping this.
My DH is almost on the last book of the Little Britches series, and the kids have really liked it.
Last year he read the Lemony Snickets series to the kids. Very dark, but my boys enjoyed those books the most by far.
The year before he read The Wizard of Oz series, which was also a hit.
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