A friend's kid asked me to recommend some MG books for her. She's 9 and reads on a fourth-grade level. Her mother isn't much of a reader, but she wants her kids to enjoy books. At the moment, I can recommend board books for toddlers and YA. That's about the extent of my knowledge. Can anyone help me?
The girl says she doesn't want a series, so stand-alones only. She likes Pokemon and Minecraft books, but those are "series." When we went to the bookstore, she gravitated toward animal books with a funny plot. I suggested Warriors and the like, but she said no because those were in a series.
I'm kind of over my head when it comes to MG. I know what I liked when I was her age, and some of those books are still on the shelves. My little one is a toddler, so I've got picture books all over the house, and I write YA, so I'm pretty up on the upper end of kidlit. The MGs scare me a little. LOL
The girl says she doesn't want a series, so stand-alones only. She likes Pokemon and Minecraft books, but those are "series." When we went to the bookstore, she gravitated toward animal books with a funny plot. I suggested Warriors and the like, but she said no because those were in a series.
I'm kind of over my head when it comes to MG. I know what I liked when I was her age, and some of those books are still on the shelves. My little one is a toddler, so I've got picture books all over the house, and I write YA, so I'm pretty up on the upper end of kidlit. The MGs scare me a little. LOL