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Tagged: 7th grade literature, literature, literature recommendations for 7th grade

This topic has 10 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 1 month ago by beccawalker2000.

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March 29, 2016 at 2:45 pm
beccawalker2000
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I need ideas. My son, who is 11 and in 6th this year, has read nearly everything on the SCM literature lists, including many of recommendations for 9-12 grades. He’s not fond of re-reading books that he has already used for school, and series like LOTR and Narnia, are already some of his favorite free reads that he has read numerous times. So I need ideas on what else to offer him this coming year. TIA!
March 29, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Linabean
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Wow! What a wonderful situation to find yourself in! I find myself somewhat envious of you!
If my son were as advanced and voracious a reader I think I would be doing a lot of Jules Verne and Dickens.
Has he read Sherlock Holmes? Books by Farley Mowat? Jack London? C.S. Lewis also has many other books that are just as exciting as Narnia but more advanced and meant for adults. If I think of more, I’ll let you know
March 29, 2016 at 5:38 pm
Monica
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Have you checked the lists on Ambleside Online? The 1000 Good Books page? Reading Your Way Through History? Charlotte Mason Home?
March 29, 2016 at 7:38 pm
art
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My 13 yr old son is re-reading Watership Down. I read it aloud when he was probably 11. There is some violence, especially toward the end. If your son is sensitive to that, you might want to preview it. We all really liked the book.
March 29, 2016 at 8:57 pm
beccawalker2000
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Thank you for all the links and authors to check out. Yes, my oldest is a voracious reader. He’s my one that somehow just learned to read. I have no idea what I actually did with him. 😉
But yeah, he’s bored with our library right now, and since he’s read so many of the classics from Vern, Dickens, etc, I’m nearly at a loss right now. I just need some new ideas.
I also need to go through our library with him and pull out everything he hasn’t read and make a go at getting those things scheduled in for him because he’s also my child that gets lost in games and puzzles and will focus on things like Rubik’s cubes for days and days and not talk about anything else and forget to pick up a book until I remind him. He asked me how to solve the cube; I told him to go find out how online; so now he is collecting them and learning to solve all the different kinds and shapes. It totally blows my mind cause I just look at those things and my brain hurts. 😀
Anyway, keep the ideas coming! I need all I can get. He still has 6 years of school for me to keep him supplied in living books, and I’m having to really branch out of the books I know as classics to try to keep him fed with good literature.
Granted, this is a good problem! I realize that. I’m thankful to have this forum to turn to for great ideas, both with the good things and the areas of struggle. Thanks, ladies!!
March 30, 2016 at 5:08 am
Monica
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How funny. My 8th grader discovered the Rubik’s Cube a little over a year ago and collects and solves, too. He’s so interested that he likes to go to competitions – and they are everywhere!
(And what distractions those cubes can be!)
March 30, 2016 at 1:56 pm
beccawalker2000
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@jawgee, I certainly understand! My son is talking about competitions now too. 😉
March 31, 2016 at 4:59 am
meganrussell
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The Door in the Wall, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Adam of the Road, Hatchet, Brians Winter, My Side of the Mountain, Christian Heroes series by YWAM (biographies of great Christian Heroes, my kids love these), The Bronze Bow, The Trojan War, Adam and His Kin, Black Beauty, Landon Snow series…these are books my 5th grader and 7th grader are reading or will be reading this spring/summer.
May 5, 2016 at 9:21 pm
amama5
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My son is also 11 and finishing 6th grade, and is the same way. Once they have read that much, it’s really hard to find age appropriate (or even just appropriate) books.
I don’t know if these border on twaddle, but sometimes you just need more for them to read:)
Any books from Edith Nesbit: Book of Beasts, Book of Dragons, Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, Story of the Amulet, Railway Children, Enchanted Castle, Magic City
Kingdom series and Knights of Arrethtrae series by Chuck Black (christian books with study guides in the back for more discussion) http://www.christianbook.com/kingdom-series-vols-1-6/chuck-black/pd/6823
http://www.christianbook.com/knights-of-arrethtrae-series-volumes-1/chuck-black/pd/692583?event=CBCER1
Door Within Trilogy by Thomas Wayne Batson https://www.amazon.com/Door-Within-Trilogy-Book-One-ebook/dp/B007V96PQQ?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&redirect=true&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

May 7, 2016 at 9:04 am
retrofam
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Does he like G.A. Henty books? There are 99 of them, as well as 50 short stories. The Robinson curriculum has them in pdf.

May 10, 2016 at 3:44 pm
beccawalker2000
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I do have a whole collection of G. A. Henty. He has read a few of them, but up until recently, he hasn’t enjoyed them. He is reading one right now as his extra history book for Middle Ages because he had already read the two books recommended. I think he is finally to the age where he can endure and begin to enjoy the language that Henty uses. 😉
I do have Robinson’s Curriculum that I always forget about!! I need to get it out and go through that list as well. 🙂