Geeky YA series?

mathmom
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:34:04 +0000

When my kids were voracious readers, but very young I found that the best way to get them stuff that was at their reading level, but also at the right emotional level was too go to older classics. Until Harry Potter made it all right to publish longer children’s books you had to go back to the 19th century to get really meaty books. Even up until the 1960s books for kids were generally safely G-rated. I’m not a prude, but I don’t think we be careful not to have our kids grow up faster than they need to. Ender stomps a kid to death in chapter one. Is that really what you want your seven year old to read?

It’s too bad he doesn’t like fantasy, because there are fabulous choices. My kids ate up the Redwall books, Tolkein, E. Nesbit, Edward Eager at that age.