Book Recommendations for 2nd Grade Boy

Alrighty, here is the third installment of JCN readers book suggestions.   It all started with a plea and then a list of summer reads for mom (me), books that a 9 year old boy would read and now today…

*drum roll*

Books that a 7 year old boy will like!

I have added a few comments below to books we have read or books I read with Ryan.   I will be adding comments as time goes on!   These are listed by most suggested at the top.

Thanks again for all your help.

What books would interest a 2nd grade boy:

Magic Treehouse series, by Mary Pope Osborne — I love these books, but Ryan was not interested.   I think this series will work much better with Reid who lives in his imagination.

Encyclopedia Brown, by Donald J. Sobol

Captain Underpants, by Dav Pikey

Junie B. Jones series, by Barbara Park

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein

Frog & Toad, by Arnold Lobel — All of us loved this book and saw the children’s play based on it…super fun.

Anything by Beverly Cleary

Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown — If you are a relative, you may have already found Flat Stanley in your mailbox.   Also a play that we attended…yay!

Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein

The Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein

Frindle, by Andrew Clements

Anything by Ronald Dahl

SkippyJon Jones, by Judy Schachner

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, Salmon

Suzie Bitner Was Afraid of the Drain, by Barbara R. Vance

How to Train Your Dragon series, by Cressida Cowell — Reid is currently reading some of the easy readers under this title.   He loves them.

Another book that we just finished that was dropped off by a friend that all the boys loved was Little Pear by Eleanor Lattimore.   It had fun, mischief and was about their current obsession, China.

Please add any suggestions that we missed in the comments below!