my 7 yr old ds is enjoying the author Dan Gutman
http://www.dangutman.com/pages/books.html
he's flying through the 'weird school' series (my weird school series, my weirder school, my weird school daze)

Over the past year, I've read aloud, at night, to my ds1 (entering 5th grade) The Little House books. We made it through the series, then a biography by William Anderson & now On the Way Home, a collection of her postcards/notes she (LIW) wrote as she traveled as an adult...

ds1 loves the N.E.R.D.S. books by Buckley,who is the same author, mentioned above, who wrote the Fairy Tale Detectives. I'm *trying* to get him to read them but....he's not interested.

ds2 is now reading The Happy Hollisters (I wound up buying the whole series for ds1)