Do your kids participate?
What are some of their favorite books?
Our local library kicked off the summer reading program last Wednesday. This year's theme is "Dream Big: Read". My kids came home and immediately began reading to see who could fill up their cards the fastest! My challenge is to keep the enthusiasm up all summer long, since the program only lasts about a week for them!
I have Junie B. Jones fans, some Barbie readers, lots of Robert Munsch, Thirty Nine Clues, 365 Conspiracy Series, Chuck Black, John Flanagan..the list goes on and on :). What kind of books do your boys like?
Our library reading program starts next week. So I'm not sure what the theme is. Tanner likes Diary of a wimpy kid. Brett reads Harry Potter, James Patterson Witch and Wizard series, Percy Jackson,
Quoting TigerofMu:
Our local library kicked off the summer reading program last Wednesday. This year's theme is "Dream Big: Read". My kids came home and immediately began reading to see who could fill up their cards the fastest! My challenge is to keep the enthusiasm up all summer long, since the program only lasts about a week for them!
I have Junie B. Jones fans, some Barbie readers, lots of Robert Munsch, Thirty Nine Clues, 365 Conspiracy Series, Chuck Black, John Flanagan..the list goes on and on :). What kind of books do your boys like?
We have a few libraries close by and most of them have some sort of program but we have never done the programs. My kids love to read. My oldest reads every night before bed and my other 'read' all through the day.
Oh my 10 year old likes Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and I just don't understand what she sees in them! ;) I don't know what else compares with those. Harry Potter fans might also like Artemis Fowl. Rick Riordan has written two other series since Percy Jackson, a spinoff called Heroes of Olympus, that has Percy and his friends, as well as some new friends (the Roman Camp), and The Kane Chronicles, which is based on Egyptian Mythology. Also, if he hasn't read John Flanagan, the Ranger's Apprentice Series starts out with the Ruins of Gorlan, and gets better and better as you go. He's written a new spinoff from it called Brotherband as well. The first two books in that are called The Outsiders and The Invaders. I love the 39 Clues series. The first book, Maze of Bones, is written by Rick Riordan.
Tanner might like the new Consipracy 365 Series. They might both, actually.
Quoting batjmom:Our library reading program starts next week. So I'm not sure what the theme is. Tanner likes Diary of a wimpy kid. Brett reads Harry Potter, James Patterson Witch and Wizard series, Percy Jackson,
Quoting TigerofMu:
Our local library kicked off the summer reading program last Wednesday. This year's theme is "Dream Big: Read". My kids came home and immediately began reading to see who could fill up their cards the fastest! My challenge is to keep the enthusiasm up all summer long, since the program only lasts about a week for them!
I have Junie B. Jones fans, some Barbie readers, lots of Robert Munsch, Thirty Nine Clues, 365 Conspiracy Series, Chuck Black, John Flanagan..the list goes on and on :). What kind of books do your boys like?
The second Percy Jackson series I think he started and didnt care for but the other he was trying to get for his kindle.
I'm going to check the other out for Tannner. Schools out Friday and Monday we plan on going to the library to sign up
Quoting TigerofMu:Oh my 10 year old likes Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and I just don't understand what she sees in them! ;) I don't know what else compares with those. Harry Potter fans might also like Artemis Fowl. Rick Riordan has written two other series since Percy Jackson, a spinoff called Heroes of Olympus, that has Percy and his friends, as well as some new friends (the Roman Camp), and The Kane Chronicles, which is based on Egyptian Mythology. Also, if he hasn't read John Flanagan, the Ranger's Apprentice Series starts out with the Ruins of Gorlan, and gets better and better as you go. He's written a new spinoff from it called Brotherband as well. The first two books in that are called The Outsiders and The Invaders. I love the 39 Clues series. The first book, Maze of Bones, is written by Rick Riordan.
Tanner might like the new Consipracy 365 Series. They might both, actually.
Quoting batjmom:Our library reading program starts next week. So I'm not sure what the theme is. Tanner likes Diary of a wimpy kid. Brett reads Harry Potter, James Patterson Witch and Wizard series, Percy Jackson,
Quoting TigerofMu:
Our local library kicked off the summer reading program last Wednesday. This year's theme is "Dream Big: Read". My kids came home and immediately began reading to see who could fill up their cards the fastest! My challenge is to keep the enthusiasm up all summer long, since the program only lasts about a week for them!
I have Junie B. Jones fans, some Barbie readers, lots of Robert Munsch, Thirty Nine Clues, 365 Conspiracy Series, Chuck Black, John Flanagan..the list goes on and on :). What kind of books do your boys like?
I think they do, but neither of my kids is reading on his own yet :)
They both love being read to, though!
We are at ours a lot but I completely understand not going because of the safety. I wouldn't go either
Quoting TerriC:Sadly, we do not go near our library. Jon has "forbidden" it. It is in a very bad part of town. The girls buy books a lot. They love the Bad Kitty series right now.
Ours does and this will be our 4th yr. participating. Last year, my son won 2nd place in his age division (he was 4) with 450 books read. Both libraries we are participating in start their program today so we'll be visiting one library today to pick up logs and books and the 2nd one tomorrow.
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- batjmom
on Jun. 4, 2012 at 6:52 AM