Level 9 ORT, what other books?

[AvoidingDM]

I'm keen to get my 7yo reading a bit better and get him reading other books.

He's currently on level 9 ORT. What else can i get him to try reading?

this series here covers reading levels 7-11 and is exciting x www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?productId=509685&catalogId=10051&searchTerm=project+x+alien+adventures%3a+series+1

My ds is similar level and likes the dinosaur cove books. Also some of the shorter roald Dahl books like the twits. He mostly prefers fact books though

The Dirty Bertie series for silly humour, books by Holly Webb if he likes animals, the rabbit and bear books sweet and funny and very quick and easy to read, The dragon masters series if he likes fantasy/magic. Aliens for breakfast if he likes sci fi. The early reader books have a huge range and are at the right level but are still a little ready scheme like.

www.badgerlearning.co.uk/gold-banded-box-1801116w.html.

Ds is white/lime plus and can pretty much read anything but it is put off by large amounts of text. He likes captain underpants, 13/26 etc storey treehouse, dogman (loves this), Barry loser books.

We get a lot of books from the library though.

Pretty much any picture book is likely to be accessible, going into larger print/shorter chapter books. Basically, they can read at this stage, so you just need to find a style/length/interest type of book that they want to read.

DC at that stage enjoyed things like:

Winnie the Witch (picture books & chapter books)
Pirate Penguins and other Frank Rodgers
Happy Families
13 Storey Treehouse
Tom Gates
Magic Treehouse series
Claude in the City series
Dinosaur Cove
Project X Alien Adventures
Jeremy Strong Pirate School (these are mini chapter books with colour pictures), going into his longer books once a bit more stamina built up

All things they still reread come to that, though can read much denser texts if they want to now.

Thank-you you've given me a good few ideas to get him reading. At the moment he still sees it as a chore but I'm keen to try him with different books even if it means I start reading them to him. I'm hoping I'll find something that hooks him and makes him want to read the next bit or next book in the series.

Oh dear God whoever posted the Project X set... I was hoping we were coming to the end of the wretched things and there's like a million more of them to come! I fecking hate them and DD1 keeps bringing them home as her reading book at the moment.

I'll go sob quietly in the corner.

I did buy them ages ago DS never got beyond the first one.

When they were mentioned again I was thinking I should pull them back out the cupboard. Maybe it will do his confidence some good to try them again.

these are really sweet and good for that level
www.amazon.co.uk/Polly-Puffin-Book-Jenny-Colgan/dp/0349131902?tag=mumsnetforum-21

It could be worse and be Wolf Hill

or Beast Quest . DS1 has brought one home from school every week so far this term. He already has the first few series anyway so I checked and they go up to more than a hundred! How can they make the same basic storyline stretch that far?

Anyway, DS is interested in adventure and action stories. The Bear Grylls adventures went down a storm. Other hits for him over the last few months have included the Flying Fergus series, Toto the Ninja Cat, the Time Hunters series and the aforementioned Dinosaur Cove.

Nothing beats, in the realm of storyline stretching... the fucking Rainbow Fairies which are up to about 150 of the wretched things (all with only one bloody plot).

Tbh I think I’d prefer beast quest though. Some of the wolf hill have inappropriate content for year two children

I'm quite sure the pink covers will put him off the Rainbow Fairies.

I'll certainly look at some of the others.
If i get a chance to I'll get him into the local library but time wise its never that easy.

There’s series called EDGe that are very good and funny

The "Purple Class" books by Sean Taylor have gone down very well in this house. The stories are accessible with funny characters. My year 1 has enjoyed reading some of the picture books that were read to him when he was younger. It makes him feel great to read Shirley Hughes, Jill Murphy and Judith Kerr etc . Your lad may be a bit past that though.

Beast Quest and Rainbow Fairies both feature in my list of stories I refuse to ever read to the kids. It's a very short list, the only other thing on it I think is Wimpy Kid. If they want to wade through them in their own time fine. They do seem to like series - it's the security of knowing the characters and knowing what to expect I guess.

At least Planet X has a bit of plot progression. We weren't obliged to listen to many of those either though as kids vanished to bedrooms and strewed them around the floor. Kept them quiet for a couple of summer holidays!

Thought of another one they loved at 6-7, the Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. DS had it as bedtime story for months on end. There are a few other books in the series with different animals.

Rainbow fairy books are the ones I threaten my friend with when she starts to wind me up.

@Pascha they can't. They follow the same formula. We've just finished one series tonight, and DS has announced he will be finding something different next .

Off to look at the other suggestions. Need to pick up some books next time I'm in the UK, so thanks, Avoiding

Thanks everybody. Its been so helpful to get a bundle of ideas.

Esp when i could bang my head off the wall with Biff and Chip. This week the story was about broken phone boxes WTF where do you even find a phone box never mind 3 of them??

I pulled out The Twits and started reading it to him. Managed to get him hooked on it wanting more