TARGET, ELEM: High/Low Elementary books

[Kris Detmer <kdetmer@COLUMBIA.K12.MO.US>]

At our school we have a number of fourth and fifth graders who are
still reading at a first or second grade level.  Many are sensitive
about it and want to check out books that look like everyone else's,
so they check out stuff like Holes and the Harry Potter series that
is way over their reading abilities.

Can anyone recommend books for these students?  They need to
be fairly low level and a few illustrations wouldn't be amiss, but they
should be sized like "chapter books" and have themes appropriate
to 4th and 5th grade.  _Nate the Great_ and suchlike is about the
right reading level, but the covers look too much like "little kid
books."  (sigh)  We have both male and female students in this
situation.

Thanks for your help.  I'll be happy to post a hit.

Kris
Kristina Detmer, Librarian
Russell Boulevard Elementary
Columbia, Missouri
kdetmer@columbia.k12.mo.us

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