Comments on: Squelch Not the Series! https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/ Kids' Books. Culture. Christ. Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Beth https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3330 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:58:08 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3330 Another shout out for The Three Investigators series!

I love this post and think it’s spot-on. Reading does go through phases. Sometimes we all need the comfort and familiarity of characters we’ve already know. My son loves Jack and Annie and the A to Zs. He’s just found Imagination Station too. I teach 7th graders and they all love a series too. In fact, this year one of my students, who is on an IEP for reading and reading at about the 3rd grade level, discovered the I Survived series and read every single one. He had never even finished a book before and this year, thanks to a series, he was unstoppable! Thanks for this great post!

]]> By: Betsy https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3329 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 04:55:11 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3329 Juliana, my kids LOVE the I Survived books. I’ll have to check those others out!

]]> By: mona https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3328 Sat, 04 Jul 2015 03:18:57 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3328 Hank the Cowdog!

]]> By: Julianna Mays https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3327 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:12:13 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3327 I’ve listed some other series that are still popular for our beginning chapter book readers and above.. For our 3rd and 4th grades we offer a book challenge using some of these series in order to head off that ‘reading slump’. I’m always on the lookout for another series and thank you for directing my attention to Lulu and Jasper.

Kylie Jean series
Akimbo series by Alexander McCall Smith
American Girl Historical girl series
I Survived
Jigsaw Jones
Main Street
My America and some of the Dear America series are also good for 3rd-4th graders

]]> By: Betsy https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3326 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:10:19 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3326 Hah, Izzy–I can assure you from my brief stint in an elementary school library that the A to Z mysteries (and ballpark mysteries, capital mysteries, etc.) are most surely not forgotten 🙂

]]> By: Izzy https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3325 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:03:02 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3325 It made me so happy to see the A-Z Mysteries here! Those were the books that got me interested in fiction at all, and it’s really nice to see they haven’t been forgotten completely. It’s a great series. I also really liked the Capital Mysteries too.

]]> By: Betsy https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3324 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:04:57 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3324 I imbibed Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Trixie Belden, too! I love the description of the Imagination Station books as a “silver bullet.” My kids have voluntarily taken them along on errands!

]]> By: Cheryl https://redeemedreader.com/squelch-not-the-series/#comment-3323 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:32:21 +0000 http://ordinary-fan.flywheelsites.com/?p=15714#comment-3323 All my children have enjoyed the Liza, Bill and Jed mysteries by Peggy Parish (author of the Amelia Bedelia books, also popular in my household). The Imagination Station books were a “silver bullet” for such times as I had an appointment and needed to have them sitting quietly – the books were so enthralling, that they made the time pass quickly for them. Although not “contemporary,” my daughter also devoured the Happy Hollister series. When I was a kid, I read pretty much every Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Brains Benton and The Three Investigators book available. I found a few tattered, out-of-print copies of the latter two on Amazon, and my son enjoyed them as well.

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