S/O book recs... Ideas for read-aloud books for 9 & 11 year olds?

**sweet_pea** · 12-06-2019

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

**jenstring95** · 12-12-2019

My two DC (12 and 14) love when we read aloud. We do it as many nights as we can, and we rotate who picks the book. We've read From the Mixed Up Files..., Wonder, all 3 Hunger Games books (finishing up #3 now), Slider, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, the first Wonderland book, Pax, the Phantom Tollbooth, and several others. Usually at least one of us has read the book and wants to share it with the others, which is how it gets chosen. Kids are never too old for a parent to read to them!

**meggie t** · 12-12-2019

Edith Nesbit is a wonderful author and has written many great books. We've read Five Children and It, as well as The Railway Children. Both excellent books. Five Children is hysterical (children find a sand fairy that grants wishes and calamity ensues). The Railway Children is great too but a little more somber.

**ang79** · 12-12-2019

My girls loved the Penderwicks series as read alouds, all 3 of us had a hard time waiting for the final book to come out! We listened to The Land of Stories series on audio book, but that would probably be a good read aloud too. Those books are long though! We started the Secret Benedict Society and got through the first one and half of the second, and then life got really busy and we haven't picked it back up. Unfortunately, homework and activities take up most of our evenings now.