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Dd9 just got a new Kindle from G-ma for Christmas. I am in need of good books for her. She reads on about a 6th grade level. I would like books for school and extra reading. I am open to any and all ideas!
Here is my Pintrest Board of a few Ebook Collections. (It isn’t anywhere near complete…) – this is of course alternatives to Amazon, which also has many good free Kindle Books. http://pinterest.com/scouterguider/ebook-collections/
Here is a site with links for AO Kindle books… http://nlhome.weebly.com/#
And of course there are Yesterday’s Classics and Heritage History websites, which have inexpensive good quality Kindle books.
Not sure what specific books to suggest without more info – but there are lots of options from these links!
A few days ago I saw 225 books from yesterday’s classics for something like $49 for Kindle. That’s just through this month.
The Yesterday’s Classics are wonderful. We have just downloaded them to our dds Kindles. =) Every one of the stories I have personally read have been interesting and I have not seen anything inappropriate at all.
Thanks for the suggestions. I am also looking for fun books that a 9 year old little girl would like. She reads alot for history and science so I was thinking something more for fun.
Ok, thanks. Any suggestions for books for fun reading? I dont want twaddle but she does grow tired of reading the older books. Are there any newer ones out there that are good?
Hmm, some that my oldest daughter has enjoyed ( I think most were read on her Kindle) include:
the Redwall series
the Percy Jackson books and others by Rick Riordian
the Anne of Green Gables series
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew and sequals
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
Paddington Bear series
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and sequals
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Beatrix Potter’s books The Tale of Peter Rabbit and all the rest
The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery
Hope those give you a place to start!
Thank you! Question about the Percy jackson books, I saw these but was not sure of the content. Can you tell me a little about them?
Yep, it will really depend on your family. There are two series centered around Percy and his friends the first being greek mythology, the second introducing roman mythology(and a separate third series around egyptian mythology).
The original series, which begins with The Lightning Thief, has Percy’s modern life colliding with Greek mythology when he discovers he is a ‘half-blood’. That means he is the child of a human parent and a greek god. Very common in greek mythology, by the way, and tastefully dealt with in the books IMO. He goes to Camp Half-Blood to get training to survive monster attacks, gets accused of stealing Zeus’s master bolt, and goes on a quest to save his mom (kidnapped by Hades) and ultimately to stop a war between the gods over the master bolt. Percy is the son of one of the ‘big 3’ greek gods, Posideon (Zeus and Hades are the other 2).
In future books of the original series Percy and his friends have to help stop the rise of the Greek gods’ evil parent Chronos and his hordes. It takes a lot of teamwork, with many small quests along the way that introduce you to other characters and items in Greek mythology (such as Daedalus’ maze).
In the second series (The Heroes of Olympus)there is still trouble brewing and Hera switches Percy’s place with a Roman demi-god boy from a Roman training camp (that the Greek kids didn’t know existed) and wipes their memory for a while. These two have to learn to work with their counterpart cultures and ultimately unite greek and roman half-bloods to meet the new challenges.
We read them as a family, and my oldest has read them on her own as well.
Ok, thank you for the review. she is a bit more of a girly girl and not so much into the sci-fiction side. Now Dd12 would probably love them. Dd9 likes more the sensitive, touching books. Does that make sense? She likes real life characters where there is a problem or lesson to be learned and accomplished. I am not sure if I am describing her well. Any other ideas?
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