Angie W's easy readers to go along with Sonlight-5 These are the readers I used for my 8yo. She had not yet done the 2nd Advanced Readers, so I used a lot of those this year. MTH = Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne *** Amy's Not So Great Campout - just for fun - This is a Brownie Girl Scout book and is about a Brownie campout. *** High Tide in Hawaii (Osborne) - MTH, Hawaii - The Magic Treehouse series is wonderful as a bridge from easy chapter books to regular chapter books. The Just Desserts Club (Dugan) - just for fun - Kids are going crazy because Mom is fixing zucchini at every meal (massive zucchini glut in the garden). They decide to form a club and find ways to make zucchini into dessert. Every chapter they do something different and all the recipes are at the end of the chapter. Even though the zucchini cookies sounded gross, they tasted pretty decent. Pippi in the South Seas (Lundgren) - My oldest insisted that my 8yo had to read this to do with Pacific Islands. It's another of Pippi's adventures. *** Dingoes at Dinnertime (Osborne) - MTH, Australia - This is a pretty good books with lots of information about Australian wildlife Expedition Down Under (Carmi) - This is a Magic Schoolbus chapter book. You wouldn't want to do this book and the MTH book with the same kid because they cover the same type of information. Moas - picture book set in New Zealand I actually used several picturebooks of New Zealand folktales, but didn't write down all the titles. *** Polar Bears Past Bedtime (Osborne) - MTH, Arctic - Another book in the series that has a lot of good information about the Arctic. Sea of Ice - Shackleton expedition - This was an easy chapter book. Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic - Arctic - I loved Miss Pickerell books when I was a kid and this one has a lot of good information in it too. Pigs Might Fly (King-Smith) - just for fun - King-Smith is my 8yo's favorite author in the world. *** Night of the Ninjas (Osborne) - MTH, Japan - Another in the Magic Treehouse series. Good information. Silkworms (SL5 history) - I had my dd read this for herself instead of reading it to her. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (SL5 reader) - Excellent book and readable on 3rd grade reading level or above. *** The Whipping Boy (SL2Adv reader) The Last Little Cat (SL2Adv reader) Seesaw Girl (Park) - Korea - This was an excellent book and I ended up having my 11yo read it also. A 12yo girl in Korea is determined to see what life is like outside the walls of her family's home. *** Day of the Dragon King (Osborne) - MTH, China Li Lun, Lad of Courage (SL5 reader) Little Pear (SL1 readaloud) - This was one of my kids' favorite readalouds when we did Core 1, but my dd was less than 5yo at the time. She enjoyed reading it to herself this time. Marco Polo (SL2Adv reader) The Ordinary Princess (Kaye) - just for fun - This used to be a 2nd Advanced reader. At her christening, one of the fairies gives the princess the gift of being "ordinary". It's a wonderful story. Along Came a Dog (SL2Adv reader) Shadrach (SL2Adv reader) "DIG" issue about China - archaeology magazine for kids - I highly recommend this magazine. The only advertisements I've ever seen in the magazine all have to do with archaeology. *** Mongols (SL5 history) - This is another history book that I made into a reader. Very readable for a 3rd grader. Every Living Thing (Rylant) - just for fun - This used to be a 2nd Advanced Reader *** Peter the Great (SL2 history) House on Walenska Street (SL2Adv reader) Anastasia's Album (Brewster) - very well-done historical picture book - It was kind of like a scrapbook of her life. Nina's Magic (Butenhoff) - folktale set in Russia, lots of fun Ella Enchanted (Levine) - just for fun - Excellent book and nothing at all like the movie. *** Water Buffalo Days - Vietnam, same author as The Land I Lost - This book is more appropriate for an 8yo than The Land I Lost. I had my 8yo read just this book and my 11yo read both. *** Betsy-Tacy - just for fun - This is the first book in the Betsy-Tacy series. One of the Betsy-Tacy books is a 2nd Advanced Reader. B is for Betsy (SL2Adv reader) "Kid's Discover" issue about Ancient India Calliope magazine: "India's Gupta Dynasty" Tiger at Twilight (Osborne) - MTH, India Gandhi (SL5 history) A True Book: India (Landau) - This is an excellent series. I used a lot of books in this series to supplement history down for my 6yo and 8yo. Here is a link to the best list I've seen of the titles available. http://plsnc.plano.gov/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=J0Q1417G03953.38165 &profile=allen&uri=link=3100023@!258278@!3100001@!3100002&aspect= basic_search&menu=search&ri=6&source=192.168.100.75@!horizon&term= True+book&index= *** Dear Whiskers (Nagda) - 4th grader gets a 2nd grade penpal who has just moved from Saudi Arabia Aladdin and other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories (SL5 reader) Shiloh (Naylor) - When a boy finds out that a dog is being mistreated he tries to save him. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fleming) - This used to be a 2nd Advanced Reader. Another excellent book that is nothing at all like the movie. *** Safari Journal (Talbott) - girl gets caught up in a mystery in Africa Kai: A Mission for Her Village (Thomas) part of Girlhood Journeys series set in Africa in 1440 The Hundred Dresses (SLK readaloud) Emily's Runaway Imagination (Cleary) - 2nd Advanced Reader