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Lisa Marie
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I am looking for some book suggestions. I am just begining to have my ds 7, to read silently daily. Today, I put a half dozen books on the table for him to choose from, and he picked Old Yeller. After he read the first page, he said that it was too hard to read because there was too many words on each page.
So, I am wondering if anyone might have some suggestions for him to read that has a smaller amount of text on each page, maybe mixed with illustrations. He seems to be an "inbetweener", not quite ready for chapter books, yet ready for more than the average picture book. I am unable to come up with any titles that fit the bill!
Thanks for your help!
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Some good books are the Billy and Blaze books (about a boy and his horse) by C.W. Anderson
There are 6, I believe, and they are from the 1950's. My son loves them so much he's reading them again right now 
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These aren't "classic" literature or anything but are common transitional chapter books series.
Mr. Putter and Tabby (Rylant)
Nate the Great (Sharmat)
Magic Treehouse (Osborne)
Matt Christopher Springboard series - sports books
They are ones that various children in this house have enjoyed.
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Lisa Marie,
We went through the same situation with our eldest son last year. I filled a basket with early readers from the resale shop (25 cents each). He really enjoyed Nate the Great, Henry and Mudge and the Frog and Toad books. Our guys also like the early Faith and Freedom readers. The Cardinal Readers are a big hit as well. I am rather surprised that they enjoy the older books as much as the newer, and if I may say, more twaddly books.
One thing I did last year that improved their reading without even trying was to begin our day with the daily church readings out loud on my bed while the baby had her morning feeding. The boys would actually bicker over who read the Gospel! Sounding out the big words together empowered them to tackle any words when they were on their own. I did not pressure them to do the readings, it was their idea to try.
On a funny note about early reading... Last year we were doing Charlotte's Web as a read aloud. Our 7yob was disappointed that I would not read "one more chapter" at bedtime. I found him hiding in the bathroom at 1 am that night on the last page of the book . That was the bridge that took him from early readers to chapter books.
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kristina wrote:
On a funny note about early reading... Last year we were doing Charlotte's Web as a read aloud. Our 7yob was disappointed that I would not read "one more chapter" at bedtime. I found him hiding in the bathroom at 1 am that night on the last page of the book. That was the bridge that took him from early readers to chapter books.
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Kristina,
Isn't it great when they get to this point? I knew my son was a reader when, in a 4th grade parochial classroom, he got a "white slip" (disciplinary note) for continuing to read his pleasure book after the teacher told him to stop. Even his teacher admitted she hated to quash that kind of enthusiasm!
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Here's a link to a site I just found with a listing of Easy Chapter Books.
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Thanks for this link -- it has many twaddle-free books on it! One of the first books I ever read was "B is for Betsy" -- I can still see the orange cover....and that was MANY  years ago!
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My 7 yo, a late and reluctant reader, has really been digging into Usborne readers. They are at several different levels. You'd really want to see a consultant or go to a store that has a good variety of Usborne. My children especially like the Famous Lives series about Marie Antoinette (sympathies are with her in this book), Napoleon, Cleopatra, Captain Cook, and Lord Nelson. There'll be more out there at some point.
He started out, not too many months ago, with the Farmyard Tales series. He has really progressed since then. There's also a set with books about trains, flying, and ships. As with all large publishing companies, you have to pick through the bad to find the good, but there's a lot of good in Usborne ~ and I'm not just saying that because I'm a temporary consultant! 
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My ds loved the Boxcar Children. He was a reluctant reader and actually started reading these when he was 8. From there he just took off and reads everything he can get his hands on!
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The Freddy books are fun, easier chapter books: Freddy Goes Camping, Freddy and the Spaceship, Freddy Goes to Florida,...
Rascal and Rabbit Hill are a little longer, but might be more captivating. And what about the Old Mother West Wind books and others by Thornton Burgess?
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