S/o clean books for smart 9 year old boy

amother

Lightgreen

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 2:08 pm

jeg wrote:

Narnia is Christian if that matters to you

It's very hidden. When I read the series as a child I never picked up on it. It was only years later when I read a biography on CS Lewis and it talked about how Narnia was all an allegory for Lewis having discovered religion and aslan represented JC etc.

amother

Powderblue

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 2:22 pm

The Ability
My Side of the Mountain
Charlie Bone series
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
The Green Ember

FYI, many of the books others listed are below reading level for an above average 9yo. But some of them were right on, such as Avner Gold, Hobbit, Narnia, Mysterious Benedict Society, etc.

amother

Powderblue

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 2:26 pm

Commonsensemedia.org will help you sort out some problematic books, specifically violence or s_xuality, but it's not from a Torah perspective, so obviously take everything with a grain of salt.

peace2

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 2:28 pm

#BestBubby wrote:

Narnia series

First Harry Potter

I wouldn't recommend giving the first Harry Potter book unless you're okay with him eventually reading the whole series (which is not totally clean). They're great books and it's a bit of a tease only letting him read one

Wizard of Oz series (there are tons of them)
Magic Tree House
Indian in the Cupboard series (from what I remember it's very clean)

amother

Peru

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 3:41 pm

My kids are avid readers with huge appetites for reading.
They are really in to the books written by frum writers. Like authors from the circle or Ruthie Pearlman.
They are bright kids and the books aren’t boring to them but not particularly intellectual.

amother

Lilac

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 3:49 pm

can't guarantee cleanliness but...
lord of the rings
keeper of lost cities series
mr. lemoncello's library series

I have a 9 year old (girl) who is an avid reader mostly fantasy, can ask her for more recommendations

jewishmommy1

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 4:13 pm

Another really good series of older, clean books is the Tales of Magic by Edward Eager. As far as I remember they are clean. This is the reading order for all seven books.

Half Magic
Knight's Castle
Magic by the Lake
The Time Garden
Magic or Not?
The Well Wishers
Seven Day Magic

#BestBubby

Wed, Nov 01 2023, 5:45 pm

amother Peony wrote:

Judy Blume I understand more than Ramona! Why Ramona??

In ONE book, either Ramona or her Mother, or
Ramona and her Father, they talked about Yoshke.

Maybe the school removed all Ramona books so parents shouldn't think school gave a hechsher on all Ramona books.

amother

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:07 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,

All of these are way too easy for him... wayside school he could read 2 years ago.

amother

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:09 am

peace2 wrote:

Magic tree house is what he read in like 1st grade....

amother

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:10 am

amother Lilac wrote:

Please ask her for more recommendations.
He loved the Lord of the Rings series.
Read some of keeper of the lost cities.

Would love more books like this.

amother

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:14 am

jewishmommy1 wrote:

Never heard of this series! Can you explain the series?

amother

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:17 am

#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?!? Why do people recommend it? It is entirely the story of Yoshke and the whole Xian theology in a story form.

amother

Dahlia

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:30 am

Tuck Everlasting

The Forgotten Door

Maniac Magee

The Sign of the Beaver (great book but a little slow-paced, just FYI)

The Phantom Tollbooth

Matilda

Danny The Champion of the World

Holes by Louis Sachar

Mr Lemoncello's Library (it's a series of 3 or 4 books)

For Jewish books- The Promised Child by Avner Gold-- and the whole series that follows

Idk, there's lots of options.....

Please don't tell me these books are too young for him, cuz these are some of my favorite books as an adult! LOL (and English is my strongest subject)

amother

Dahlia

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:32 am

amother OP wrote:

Narnia?!? Why do people recommend it? It is entirely the story of Yoshke and the whole Xian theology in a story form.

They're just friendly suggestions....

amother

Dahlia

Thu, Nov 02 2023, 3:43 am

I don't consider Judy Blume's books to be reliably clean

Some are acceptable and I give them to my kids to read, but others have unacceptable content in my opinion

Anyway probably not relevant to OP cuz of reading level.... but just saying LOL