Can anybody recommend suitable books for my 8 year old DS? He is now probably about average for his age in reading (due to begin Y4), although he didn't really begin to 'get it' properly until end of Y2.
He has read all 'Horrid Henry' series, 'Secret Seven' series, a couple of Roald Dahl and has just started a series about 'Marvin Redpost'.
I've just been on a thread in AIBU re Enid Blyton books and somebody commented that it was sad that an 8 year old now was having to read books written in the 50's because we couldn't find any more recently which interested him. I totally agree with this.
However, we have started so many books from the library and which he has brought back from school which just haven't kept his interest. He doesn't like 'Captain Underpants' which somebody previously recommended to me (and I don't either)and has tried some Jeremy Strong books but found some difficult to understand.
Any ideas please?
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