 | Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Basil by Wiley Miller
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.89 Advanced picture book features whimsical look at 19th century mechanics and a boy who THINKS he's ordinary.
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 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Buy new: $8.47 / Used from: $4.32 Boys and girls ages 8-14 love this series! A humorous chapter book with cartoon like commentaries. Great for reluctant readers. (Sequels!)
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 | The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking: The First Collection by Cressida Cowell
Buy used from: $26.00 This collection includes the first 3 books of this wonderful series: How to Train Your Dragon, How to Speak Dragonese, and How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse. This tribe of belching Vikings, dragon pets, and a misfit boy named Hiccup will charm your child. (How to be a Pirate is not included in this compilation.)
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 | How to Train Your Dragon (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $0.05 Bk 1 - begins the adventures of Hiccup, the son of the chief of a fictitious troop of Vikings from the Isle of Berk, his pet dragon Toothless, and his loyal friend Fishlegs. The series appeals to reluctant readers with varied fonts and intermittent illustrations, an invented dragon language, and a reluctant hero who doesn't have traditional Viking skills but always saves the day.
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 | How to Be a Pirate (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $0.01 Bk 2 - In this book Hiccup and his class of Vikings-in-training meet up with Alvin, who will be their nemesis in future books.
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 | How to Speak Dragonese (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $0.75 Bk 3 - In this book Hiccup and his friends experience a culture clash when they are kidnapped by a Roman legion and brought back to a Roman outpost. Can a bunch of kid Vikings outwit the Roman Empire?
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 | How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $3.34 Bk 4 - In this book Hiccup must find the Vegetable-That-No-One-Dares-Name, the only thing that can save his friend Fishlegs from Vorpentitis.
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 | How to Twist a Dragon's Tale (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $4.00 Bk 5 - One of the more suspenseful of the Hiccup tales, the story involves a Volcano which hatches the deadly Exterminator dragons!
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 | A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons: Bk. 6: Dragon Training and Swordfighting Tips (Hiccup) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $9.55 / Used from: $5.96 Book 6 - As stated on Wikipedia: "This book is different from its predecessors, it contains an open-up map of the Barbaric Archipelago, a Dragonese Dictionary in the back, Dragon Profiles and 'Conversations with Toothless' This story is about a burglary competition between the Bog-Burglars and the Hairy Hooligans."
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 | How to Ride a Dragon's Storm: Bk. 6 (Hiccup) by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: $9.81 / Used from: $8.79 Bk 7 - (Published in 10/08, this appears to be Book 7, but the numbering is unclear.) Hiccup has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents, AND win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race.
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 | Tale of the Toa (Bionicle Chronicles, #1) by Cathy Hapka
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is the book that starts the Bionicle series. I also recommend the Bionicle Encyclopedia and Bionicle World.
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 | Adventures of Tintin: Land of Black Gold / Destination Moon / Explorers on the Moon (3 Complete Adventures in 1 Volume, Vol. 5) by Herge
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $4.98 Tintin books are a great introduction to reading for boys who like graphic novels. The vocabulary is sophisticated, as are the concepts introduced, but the pictures and humor are easy fun. In my opinion, the "moon" books are the most fun, but we enjoy them all.
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 | Asterix and the Great Crossing by Rene Goscinny
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $9.28 Asterix discovers the New World...what could be better?
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 | It's All Greek to Me (The Time Warp Trio No. 8) by Jon Scieszka
Buy used from: $19.99 Educational series featuring time traveling kids who, in this book, run into obstreperous Greek Gods and monsters.
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 | My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.93 Great first chapter book from the 1940's, which appeals to younger children ages 8-9 as well as older children who need to de-stress and bond with invented animals. Elmer travels to a foreign land to save a blue-striped dragon. A truly soothing and imaginative bedtime read. (2 sequels.)
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 | Elmer and the Dragon (My Father's Dragon) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $2.50 Book No. 2 (not as good as book 1 or 3, but your child will want them all). Elmer and his friends land on a kingdom of birds and solve their problems for them.
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 | The Dragons of Blueland (My Father's Dragon) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $2.12 Book No. 3 - Things aren't going at all well in the Dragon's home of Blueland, and his family is in danger of discovery by mankind and captivity. But Elmer manages to save the clan.
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 | Roald Dahl/Charlie Boxed Set (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $23.18 / Used from: $26.82 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the perfect book for young readers. It's a classic for a reason. The Great Glass Elevator is optional, but worth a try.
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 | The last man alive,: A story for children from the age of seven to seventy by Alexander Sutherland Neill
Buy used from: $19.94 This book, written by an alternative educator from England in response to the suggestions of his students, is unusual, outlandish, humorous, suspenseful, and will knock your child's socks off. Buy it, or download it for free at the tripod thelastmanalive site.
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