can you list any good books for a inter city illiterate adult with a 5th grade education?
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Try the following, although some may be a challenge, he should probably enjoy them:\n\nMoby Dick\nCharlotte's Web\n20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\nWatership Down\nThe Wind in the Willows\nBridge to Teribitha\nSeven Little Australians\nAnything by Robin Klein\nThe Railway Children\nHarry Potter books \nHans Christian Anderson tales are great (but he may feel a bit insulted by the 'fairy tale' element)\n\n\nAlso, magazines are good - Time, National Geographic, The Bulletin, etc\n\nAlthough some of these may come from a childs / teens perspective due to the level of education - a lot of these are universal favourites and classics that appeal to all ages.\n\nHope this helps\n\n\n\nThe guy above mentioned Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer - great choices!
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Try Scholastic, Lakeshore, or Simon and Shulster. They do provide reviews of their books, and you can also get reviews of books from local teacher organizations or the public library.
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at and major bookstore...barnes and noble, boarders, maybe a library. i personally woud try amazon.com for a cheap find :)
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Try R.L.Stine books and I don't mean the Goosebump ones. \nI have a few I picked up in a New & Used bookstore near me. \nThey are located in the Teen section not the children's.\nI'm much older than you and I enjoyed them.
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Recommended Reading List: 8-9 year olds\n\nBunnicula, by James Howe\n\nCharlotte’s Web, by E. B. White\n\nThe Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden\n\nDominic, by William Steig\n\nFreckle Juice, by Judy Blume\n\nThe Garden of Abdul Gasazi, by Chris Van Allsburg\n\nLittle House Series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder\n\nNo One is Going to Nashville, by Mavis Jukes \n\nRamona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary\n\nSarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
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I got mine into the American girl books.  She loves them we also read classics like the Secret Garden and Little Princess.  Then the books like Twinkle the Tooth Fairy (there is a whole series and the are great for beginning readers) The Princess and the Locket (another reason she loved these books is they come with charm necklaces), The Magical Ballet Slippers. Baby sitter's Club - Little sisters.\n\nAlso try your public library.  We could go up and spend hours there and the whole time she having fun and learning.  The people that work in the Library are usually very helpful and can show you where you should get books from.  At most libraries they are now also sectioning some books off in levels and your librarian can explain this better as it differs from publisher to publisher.  But you find the level of book your daughter is at and have lots more availiable at the same level.  And it's free!
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try \n\nhttp://www.librarything.com/
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Try the International Reading Association (IRA)\n\nThe National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)\n\nJournal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
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a good book is zachs lie and the outsiders both are good books im 13 and i read them last year when i was 12 it will be a good book research for your child
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http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/specialprograms.asp   try this website. Has some god reading programs for kids
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Check out Half Price Books.com or Amazon.
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any novels will do. but if you are still trying to learn, try novels for teenagers like harry potter
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Try something from S.E.Hinton.The Outsiders" "Rumble Fish" and "Tex" are all short ,easy reading and deal with problems facing HS aged students.
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I'm dyslexic too, and I know what you mean about wanting books that are easy to read.  I usually just read kids books even though I'm 19 and a freshman in college.  Actually, I mainly read whatever I have to read for school, but on the rare occasion that I do have time to read something else, I rarely finish anything that's not meant for kids.  I think the trick is just to find kids books that are complicated enough to still be interesting.\n\nI really like Harry Potter.  Those are more than 150 pages, but they're also the only book I can sit down and read like 12 hours a day and finish in 3 days.  \n\nThe Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card is also really good.  They're about a kid in the future who's taken to be trained as an elite soldier in to fight in space battles.  It's not as brutal as it sounds, though.  Most of the first books is mostly about his time at school, and all the battles that there are are very video-game-ish (actually, they basically are video games - you'll understand what I mean if you read it).\n\nIf you like science fiction, I really like Robert Heinlein's stuff.  His stuff isn't written for kids at all, but I've been able to read it since about 6th grade, which is really saying something, and I still enjoy it.  Most of his stuff is really short, too.  He has one really long book, which I still haven't been able to read, but that's the only one.\n\nI read a book called A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer a little while ago.  It's longer (over 450 pages), but it's written at about a 5th-6th grade reading level even though it's in no way a kids book.\n\nAnother great thing is books on tape.  CD's of recent stuff is sometimes really expensive, but if you go for classics that are out of copyright, you can get them even on iTunes for under $20.
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Best case is just do a google search. Worst case, get on down to a library, and check out some books......
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This is a really great site that I use.\n\nhttp://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.htm
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any good bookstore, amazon.com, half.com, the public library, and on and on and on