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Anonymous Wed Feb 2 00:56:02 2011 No.1514857 [Reply] [Original]

What book should I get a 4th grader to encourage them to read. (New or old)

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>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:00:02 2011 No.1514865 Robinson Cruesoe

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:01:02 2011 No.1514866 Hated that book with a burning passion. Animorphs imo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:01:02 2011 No.1514869 The Call of the Wld

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:02:02 2011 No.1514870 Loser. Loved that shit in when our teacher read it to us in 5th or 4th grade.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:02:02 2011 No.1514871 File: 53 KB, 309x519, WheretheRedFernGrows[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:05:02 2011 No.1514878 >>1514866 I like that suggestion, but he's a good inner city kid, but I don't think it's gonna be that easy for him to keep getting the animorphs book. Don't think they sell em in stores anymore. Or it gives another disturbing option, give mine away.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:05:02 2011 No.1514881 Bridge to Terabithia, remember when are teacher read that to us in 4th grades and I baww'd :'( She also read us Rolling Thunder, Hear my Cry. Such a horrible book to read to a bunch of 4th graders... such a horrible book overall.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:05:02 2011 No.1514882 >>1514871 First book that ever made my cry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:06:02 2011 No.1514886 I was thinking about Locke and Key (comic book) or some of the Benjamin Tabart books. >>1514871 Good one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:07:47 2011 No.1514889 <---------

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:08:02 2011 No.1514893 File: 58 KB, 300x300, mein_kampf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] <-------------

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:09:02 2011 No.1514897 >>1514881 How the fuck did you get away with that? I think the other kids would have eaten me alive if I showed that kind of weakness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:10:02 2011 No.1514899 I was maybe 11 or 12 when I read them (for the first time) but I thought A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan were awesome. The Tombs of Atuan is possibly my favourite book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:11:02 2011 No.1514901 File: 7 KB, 236x213, harry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The only books that ever need to be read by anyone of any age.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:13:02 2011 No.1514905 File: 10 KB, 160x260, The outsiders..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not sure if the c/lit/s here would agree, but when I was younger I thought this book was a piece of literary genius.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:15:02 2011 No.1514910 >>1514901 I hated reading until my mom made me read harry potter in 4th grade. I also started reading the Redwall series once I finished HP

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:16:02 2011 No.1514911 File: 49 KB, 376x575, matilda.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ma-Fucking-Tilda

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:21:02 2011 No.1514924 The Giver

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:29:02 2011 No.1514949 Alex Rider?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:46:02 2011 No.1514990 Brian Jaques' Redwall was the first book I read on my own, in 3rd grade. I read the whole series. Nothing was ever so cool again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:48:02 2011 No.1514993 >>1514910 ...duuuude. I had completely forgotten about the Redwall series. I loved those books when I was younger. I second this recommendation.

Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:50:02 2011 No.1514996

>>1514990
I still have mine, but I never finished it.

I read the entire Narnia series when I was in 4th grade. Not once did I ever realize that it was christian based until I was much much older. It was still pretty awesome at that age to me, but I wish I would have read Redwall instead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:50:02 2011 No.1514999 >>1514878 http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Animorphs-1-K-Applegate/dp/0590629778/ref=pd_sim_b_1 1c each man

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:53:02 2011 No.1515006 Get him a collection of Calvin and Hobbes or comic books. It'll at least teach him that some stuff is fun to read. I love that shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 01:54:02 2011 No.1515008 Hogg

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 02:15:02 2011 No.1515045 >>1514881 Wow! I forgot about Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. I was trying to remember that book just the other day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:02:02 2011 No.1515106 File: 20 KB, 220x294, stockingDrool.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Phantom Tollbooth

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:07:02 2011 No.1515108 File: 67 KB, 300x450, JM01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_series

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:10:02 2011 No.1515110 File: 48 KB, 304x475, MySideOfTheMountain.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:17:02 2011 No.1515115 >>1515106 >the phantom tollbooth this

Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:20:02 2011 No.1515117
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Kit's Wilderness it is very good chapters are 3-6 pages each story is awesome and a bit dark.

http://www.amazon.com/Kits-Wilderness-David-Almond/dp/0385326653

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 03:38:02 2011 No.1515140 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 >>1515110 This, or... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_On_Fire or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_trilogy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 04:00:02 2011 No.1515156 The Golden Compass movie may have been meh but the books were pretty amazing. In 4th grade I was reading Star Wars expanded universe novels and whatever other sf I could find that wasn't totally incomprehensible.

>>	/lit/ homo !sVfiS1/iKk Wed Feb 2 04:37:02 2011 No.1515189 File: 36 KB, 293x450, Sexy_teenboys_in_white_pantsboypost13.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. It sooooo silly and dark (for a 4th grader) *pic never related

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 10:18:02 2011 No.1515582 All good suggestions guys. (except Mein Kampf) Thanks. Any stock in the Maximum Ride for him?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 10:20:02 2011 No.1515586 I loved Hatchet so much. I wish I knew where my copy was.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 10:28:02 2011 No.1515601 I loved Roald Dahl as a kid. He has just the right balance of menace and whimsy for children, I think.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 10:31:02 2011 No.1515603 File: 52 KB, 495x648, WheretheSidewalk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 10:37:02 2011 No.1515607 Alice in Wonderland? Hell, the first paragraph is about reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 2 21:54:02 2011 No.1517169 Thanks. But I ended up getting the kid Indian and the Cupboard (did we all forget about that book?) and complete fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson

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Anonymous Thu Feb 3 02:54:02 2011 No.1518053
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>>1517169
My friend and I had long discussions over how the cupboard could be used and misused, and especially which action figures would be hilariously disastrous to put in.

Pic related, he came up a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 3 03:51:02 2011 No.1518155 White Fang was pretty cool. Alternatively just grab heaps of hard Sci Fi and insist on reading it to them. S'what my granpa did to me.

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