Boxcar - Tom Swift - Ray Bradbury - Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Fin - Treasure Island - in High School I read Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series, also I read a lot of comics as a kid.
My sisters read Nancy Drew series.
We did not have a car, so our mother marched us to the public library, later we walked ourselves and browsed the shelves until we found something that grabbed our interest. She had never finished the eighth grade, but wanted to ensure her children learned to enjoy reading.
Thinking back, I image librarians gasping every time my mother came in with five loud kids in tow!
Others read later in life, C. S. Lewis space trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (film coming out soon).
Personally never cared for Chronicles of Narnia and books of that nature like the Hobbit, Dune was simply to drawn-out and long, and have had many try to shove them down my throat.
I'd ask their interests prior, maybe inquiring like what type of films do they like and keep in mind they don't always know what they'd like.
Years ago, one of my nephews did the R. L. Stein thing before it became an after school special.
More recent, Vincent and Travis enjoyed the book Holes by Louis Sachar. They were forced to read it in Middle/High School. With reading disabilities, I was surprised they had made it through the book. When the film came-out, they snapped it off the shelve, proud they could now compare it to the film. "We knew it was a good story before the film people did" type of thing. Special education reading classes, they read the book during class time hours with a teacher present.
I'd recommend novellas as much as possible, attention span is key. They can have a sense of accomplishment when finished reading it.
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Date: 2007-10-21 05:17 pm (UTC)My sisters read Nancy Drew series.
We did not have a car, so our mother marched us to the public library, later we walked ourselves and browsed the shelves until we found something that grabbed our interest. She had never finished the eighth grade, but wanted to ensure her children learned to enjoy reading.
Thinking back, I image librarians gasping every time my mother came in with five loud kids in tow!
Others read later in life, C. S. Lewis space trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (film coming out soon).
Personally never cared for Chronicles of Narnia and books of that nature like the Hobbit, Dune was simply to drawn-out and long, and have had many try to shove them down my throat.
I'd ask their interests prior, maybe inquiring like what type of films do they like and keep in mind they don't always know what they'd like.
Years ago, one of my nephews did the R. L. Stein thing before it became an after school special.
More recent, Vincent and Travis enjoyed the book Holes by Louis Sachar. They were forced to read it in Middle/High School. With reading disabilities, I was surprised they had made it through the book. When the film came-out, they snapped it off the shelve, proud they could now compare it to the film. "We knew it was a good story before the film people did" type of thing. Special education reading classes, they read the book during class time hours with a teacher present.
I'd recommend novellas as much as possible, attention span is key. They can have a sense of accomplishment when finished reading it.