All of A Kind Family – Boy Friendly?

My boys LOVED it. LOVED. IT. Biggest complaint was the fact that the sequel(s) are out of print and hard to find; they wanted more – always a good sign! They were 8 and 9 when they read it. If you are assigning as an independent read, I might suggest that (if you have time) you do a quick scan of the day’s chapter yourself to look for unusual words that you could use to work on vocabulary, pronunciation, etc. Some of the tricky words are unusual names, other words are some of the Jewish customs, some others were just BIG words for my 8-9 year olds at the time. (my boys’ tendency at this stage was to skip words they didn’t know…such a shame – a lost learning opportunity. Halfway through the book I clued it and got them to work a little at it – there were several Ah-Ha moments when they went back and read a few sections with a key word that they didn’t know!)

But to the main point of your question – my boys did not mind at all that the family is mostly girls. Could be just them though; they also enjoyed Pollyanna last year, all the Pippi Longstocking books during age 7-8, Little House…and right now we are on Understood Betsy. (I promise I DO read them boy books too, LOL…but we have done both “girl” books and boy books pretty equally).

My boys loved them too.

I only have one boy, but he loved it!  

Chiming in late, but my younger two boys have loved them! The older of the two read them on his own and I’m currently reading the series to my youngest. I found used copies for a decent price of them all as I really wanted to add them to our home library.

What?!  There are sequels?!  I had no idea!  I read this aloud to my DD earlier this year, and she hated for it to end.  I’m definitely going to have to hunt for the rest of the books.  Any idea of what the titles are?

Thanks so much!  I can get them at the library!