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 Wed, Nov 01 2023, 9:51 am
We are desperate for books for my son... while he might be only 9 he has read everything he can get his hands on. He is BH super smart and a high level reader.
The school told us to look at their library and it was all too easy- Hardy Boys, boxcar kids...
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 9:56 am
The Fudge books by Judy Blume, first one is
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Wayside school Series
Books by Beverly Cleary, Henry Huggins,
otis Spofford,
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amother
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 9:58 am
| #BestBubby wrote: | The Fudge books by Judy Blume, first one is
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Wayside school Series
Books by Beverly Cleary, HenrHuggins, otis Spofford, |
I think these are great, but don't know if they'll meet OP "clean" standards. My DDs' school recently eliminated all their Ramona books 
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amother
Bisque
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 10:12 am
My 8 year old is really enjoying mysterious Benedict
Society. It is hundreds of pages. Is that the type of book you are looking for?
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amother
Ballota
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 10:14 am
The Hobbit
Jack London (only certain books and short stories, not all)
Rudyard Kipling (only some)
Hatchet by Gary Larsen
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boysrus
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 10:20 am
A lot of the books by Andrew Clements might be good reading for him
Just read each one first to check you are comfortable with it, I think there was one I didn't want my kids to read, the one about a boy and girl in different countries who were penpals.
Frindle is probably the best kids book I ever read
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:04 am
| amother Ballota wrote: | | I think these are great, but don't know if they'll meet OP "clean" standards. My DDs' school recently eliminated all their Ramona books |
Ramona Is clean but ONE of the Ramona books talked about christian. So I guess they removed all.
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:05 am
Narnia series
First Harry Potter
Roald Dahl books, Charlie and the chocolate factory
The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
The three investigator series
The "I survived" series
The "you wouldn't want to be a...." series
Old books: Danny Dunn series
The forgotten door by Alexander keys
Black and blue magic by zilphia Keaton snyder
Keys to the treasure by Peggy Parrish
Encyclopedia brown series
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
Charlottes Web
Stuart Little
Pippi Longstocking
By the great hornswoggle
The whipping boy
The great brain series
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingals
Tomahawk and Trouble
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amother
Peony
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:24 am
| amother Ballota wrote: | | I think these are great, but don't know if they'll meet OP "clean" standards. My DDs' school recently eliminated all their Ramona books | Judy Blume I understand more than Ramona! Why Ramona??
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amother
Ballota
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:28 am
| amother Peony wrote: | | Judy Blume I understand more than Ramona! Why Ramona?? |
I don't know, nobody asked my opinion. Could be like Bubby said, mentions of things like Halloween and Easter and Xmas. Or maybe they don't like what they consider bad middos, some people censor for characters with chutzpah, etc. Maybe there was some potty humor? I think in one of the Fudge books, someone pees in a plant, and that was considered a problem.
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amother
Winterberry
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:29 am
| #BestBubby wrote: | The Fudge books by Judy Blume, first one is
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Wayside school Series
Books by Beverly Cleary, Henry Huggins,
otis Spofford, |
Judy Blume - definitely not!
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amother
Ballota
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:30 am
Judy Blume wrote books that included s_xual relationships between teens and also wrote relatively pareve books for younger kids. I'm sure nobody was suggesting her novel Forever, but Fudge is a reasonable suggestion.
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amother
Winterberry
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:30 am
The Ruach Ami Series by Avner Gold is very good for a smart 9 year old
The Promised Child
The Year of the Sword
There are quite a few of them...
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honey36
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:35 am
| amother Bisque wrote: | My 8 year old is really enjoying mysterious Benedict
Society. It is hundreds of pages. Is that the type of book you are looking for? |
I read the first book in the Benedict series. It was really a creepy story. I guess ok for kids who won't get creeped out.
My son around that age loves the wings of fire series. I think all are pretty clean except number 13. Yes, there is murder and violence, but since its about dragons I feel like the kids realize it's just fantasy so don't get really scared...
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Echinacea
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 11:44 am
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What about Black Beauty. Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMB. Dr dolittle. Cricket in Times Square. We look up different Caldecott medal books and order from the library
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 12:05 pm
The power of UN
Also non fiction
Guiness book of world records
Ripley believe it or not
Jewish series: Amazing Facts
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jewishmommy1
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 12:50 pm
The Indian in the Cupboard series by Lynn Reid Banks was a favorite when I was a kid. Haven't read in years, double check for cleanliness.
I also loved The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. Haven't read in years, double check for cleanliness.
The "I Survived" series by Lauren Tarshis- these are excellent. I censored them for my kids and removed some mild boy/girl interactions with white out, but almost perfectly clean. The one about Pompeii has lots of talk about Roman gods so you may want to either skip that one or censor heavily if you're buying it.
I also agree about the Ruach Ami series by Avner Gold- they revamped the books and added chapters to the earlier ones. They are excellent!
Would he enjoy the Maggid books by R' Pesach Krohn?
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amother
Lightgreen
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 1:28 pm
| amother OP wrote: | We are desperate for books for my son... while he might be only 9 he has read everything he can get his hands on. He is BH super smart and a high level reader.
The school told us to look at their library and it was all too easy- Hardy Boys, boxcar kids... |
I would have thought hardy boys was about that age level. Remember it doesn't have to challenge him that he struggles over words, but rather that he will enjoy the story line. My ds actually loves non-fiction and I get out a lot of different books. I do check them more thoroughly that there's nothing in them that's questionable, and there's some great jewish ones as well.
We've got a lot of the Enid Blyton series as well. I'm not in the US so I don't know what's available and also what your standards are. DS has enjoyed Angie Sage's septimus heap series, Charlie bone series, Artimus Fowl series and joseph delaney's spook's apprentice (they did a movie of it). There's a couple of websites that will tell you the details of books and what might be inappropriate, but I can't remember the names just now.
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jeg
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Wed, Nov 01 2023, 1:51 pm
| #BestBubby wrote: | Narnia series
First Harry Potter
Roald Dahl books, Charlie and the chocolate factory
The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
The three investigator series
The "I survived" series
The "you wouldn't want to be a...." series
Old books: Danny Dunn series
The forgotten door by Alexander keys
Black and blue magic by zilphia Keaton snyder
Keys to the treasure by Peggy Parrish
Encyclopedia brown series
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
Charlottes Web
Stuart Little
Pippi Longstocking
By the great hornswoggle
The whipping boy
The great brain series
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingals
Tomahawk and Trouble |
Narnia is Christian if that matters to you
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