Sherlock Holmes Books by Arthur Conan Doyle - Recommendation by Teenager

Sherlock Holmes Books by Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

This short story collection was published from 1891 through 1892 in The Strand.

• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-headed League
• A Case of Identity
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery
• The Five Orange Pips
• The Man with the Twisted Lip
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
• The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
• The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
• The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

This collection of short stories was published from 1892 through 1893 in The Strand.

• Silver Blaze
• The Yellow Face
• The Stock-broker’s Clerk
• The “Gloria Scott”
• The Musgrave Ritual
• The Reigate Squire (known in the US as “The Reigate Puzzle” and in the UK as “The Reigate Squires”)
• The Crooked Man
• The Resident Patient
• The Greek Interpreter
• The Naval Treaty
• The Final Problem

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

This collection of short stories was originally published in 1903 through 1904 in The Strand.

• The Adventure of the Empty House
• The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men
• The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
• The Adventure of the Priory School
• The Adventure of Black Peter
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
• The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
• The Adventure of the Three Students
• The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
• The Adventure of the Second Stain

His Last Bow

The stories in this collection were originally published between 1908 and 1917.

• The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
• The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
• The Adventure of the Red Circle
• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective
• The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax
• The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
• His Last Bow

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The stories in this collection were originally published between 1921 and 1927.

• The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
• The Adventure of the Three Gables
• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
• The Problem of Thor Bridge
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man
• The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
• The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

Lose of Academic Skills over The Summer Vacation

The resurge says that all children loose their academic skills over the course of summer vacation. Summer loss for all students is estimated to be equal to about 1 month (Cooper 1996), but this varies across subject matter:

• Reading - Varies across SES. Low income students generally lose about 2 months of reading achievement. Middle income students experience slight gains in reading performances.
• Mathematics - 2.6 months of grade-level equivalency loss

More information is available at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss

http://www.studydog.com/parents/summer-reading/

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/summer-and-extended-learning-time/Pages/default.aspx

http://family.go.com/parenting/pkg-tween/article-787102-math-during-summer-vacation--t/

Summer Reading Routine

Experts stress the importance of keeping kids reading and using the summer as the perfect time to instill a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

Raising A Reader, a national nonprofit organization, gives parents the following tips for getting children excited about books and into a regular reading routine during the summer vacation:

• Schedule a regular time to share books with your child and establish a regular routine to ensure reading doesn't become a low priority and has the same importance as other activities.
• If your child wants to see a movie that is based on a book, read the book with your child first and then let them see the movie as a reward. Engage your child in discussions about differences or similarities between the book and the movie.
• Create an outdoor reading area so the whole family can enjoy the summer weather and not feel stuck inside. Children generally read indoors, so being outdoors will create a new environment for enjoying a book and boost a child's enthusiasm for reading.
• Find books that are centered on summer activities he or she enjoys. If your child likes to go horseback riding, for example, find books about horses or stories with horses as an integral part of the plot. This will give a child a welcome change from the types of books read during the school year and better complement their summer.
• If you are taking a trip, read books about your destination with your child before you leave. Do some "research" with them on the location and find things in the area they want to do while visiting.
• If you are taking your kids somewhere for the day, such as a pool, the beach, a picnic or the zoo, pack a book to share and have a reading break or two during day. After an hour or so in the water, your child may enjoy 30 minutes of reading on a comfortable chair or even floating on a raft.
• Create a summer reading challenge with rewards every time a certain number of books is read, or at the completion of a long book. Engage your child in a discussion about the book, talk about what they liked and ask thought-provoking questions such as coming up with a different ending or a new character.

"Many children associate books with school and view reading as work instead of being a source of fun and enjoyment," said Gabrielle Miller, Ed.D., national executive director of Raising A Reader. "It is important to instill a love of books in children at an early age and introduce reading as a pleasurable experience. One way to do this is to establish a regular home-based literacy program that is independent of school, and the summer is a perfect time to start."

More information is available at

http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/6938.htm

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/summer

Summer Math Opportunities

There are many ways for your children to practice math over the summer. Kids will not even realize they are practicing math when they count steps, build patterns with rocks or plant seeds in the garden.

Summer Math Ideas for Smaller Children

• Count and sort seeds and measure spacing for planting the seeds and plants.
• Weighing and measuring products as things are harvested. E.g. One watermelon seed grows pounds of produce, while leafy greens are lighter weight. Kids can measure stems, vines and vegetables also.
• In a pool, children can count how many strokes it takes for them to swim the length of the pool or estimate how deep they can swim.
• Give a child a tape measure to measure thing around the house or outside.
• Give a child a sidewalk chalk to write numbers or play math games.
• If the weather gets too hot, hands-on, math-centric indoor activities include counting pennies and loose change, playing a dice game or baking cookies.
• Another activity is to clip coupons for grocery shopping. After the shopping trip, kids can calculate how much money was saved with the coupons.
• Cooking is an activity filled with math. From measuring for a recipe to the length of time it takes to cook in the oven.

Summer math ideas for older children

• On the family vacation, children can plot the mileage between destinations and let each child be in charge of one activity on the trip, and also calculate how much the activity will cost the family.
• Give older children an allowance and have them pay for some of their activities with that allowance. They will learn to budget their money.
• Make them responsible for some grocery shopping and even cooking a meal. They will experience the expense of purchasing food and also by cooking a meal they will have to learn how much to make for their whole family to eat.

Fun math games

http://www.math.com/parents/articles/funmath.html 

http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/vacation-math-fun-ways-to-help-kids-stay-sharp/

Well Known but Newly Discovered Roald Dahl

Basia has discovered Roald Dahl the greatest story-tellers of all time and his fun and inspirational books and characters. She wishes to visit The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, a village situated in the heart of the Buckinghamshire, 20 miles northwest of London, where Roald Dahl lived and wrote for 36 years.

http://www.roalddahl.com/home

Her favorite story is Matilda:. From what she knows so fur she also loves Mini Pins:, Fantastic Mr.Fox:, TheMagic Finger:, and obviously Charlieand the Chocolate Factory:

Roald Dahl
List of the children’s selection

Matilda:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor

By Basia

Mini Pins: 

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by PatrickBenson

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

Fantastic Mr.Fox:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Adventure, Comedy and Humor

By Basia

The Magic Finger:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

Charlieand the Chocolate Factory:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Classics, Fantasy, Movie Tie-In

By Basia

Charlieand the Great Glass Elevator:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Adventure, Classics

By Basia

George'sMarvelous Medicine:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

The Twits:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Classics, Comedy and Humor

By Basia

James andthe Giant Peach:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Adventure, Classics, Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

Danny,Champion of the World:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: General Fiction

By Basia

ElSuperzorro / Super Zorro:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by HoracioElena

Genre/Theme: Animal Stories, Comedy and Humor

By Basia

Esio Trot:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor

By Basia

Revolting Rhymes:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Fairy Tales, Poetry and Rhymes

By Basia

Skin andOther Stories:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Anthology, Songs and Lyrics

By Basia

TheBFG:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

The EnormousCrocodile:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by  QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor

By Basia

TheGiraffe and the Pelly and Me:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Adventure, Comedy and Humor, Poetry and Rhymes

By Basia

The Vicar ofNibbleswicke:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: General Fiction

By Basia

The Witches:

By RoaldDahl, illustrated by QuentinBlake

Genre/Theme: Classics, Comedy and Humor, Fantasy

By Basia

TheWonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and Six More:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Comedy and Humor, Songs and Lyrics

By Basia

TheUmbrella Man and Other Stories:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Anthology, Songs and Lyrics

By Basia

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Autobiography

By Basia

Going Solo:

By RoaldDahl

Genre/Theme: Autobiography

By Basia

Book Series Chosen by 6-year-old Girl

To help your child to increase his/her interest in reading look for an attention-grabbing series.

I’ve always read to my daughter and that’s how now my 6 years old Basia reads to me when I’m busy cooking a dinner.

https://plus.google.com/100969682108352971387/posts/GckwJ8bwzyT

Children's books that come in a series are excellent for many reasons.

1. Once a child reads the first book in the series and likes it, there are immediately more books from the rest of the series that he/she will want to read!
2. Series help to develop more complex characters and plots which help capture child’s' attention and interest and make him/her want to read more.

Before you buy the whole series it is worthy to take a trip to the local library and check the first book to make sure your child likes it.

See some book series my 6 years old daughter likes to read alone or with me.
There are in an alphabetical order:

According to Humphrey Series by Betty G. Birney
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.

Number of Books in Series: 10
Age Group: 7 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.8 to 4.4

Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Books Level 2) Series by Peggy Parish and Herman Parish
Amelia Bedelia is a literal-minded housekeeper who causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

Number of Books in Series: 26 so far
Age Group: 4 - 9 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 1.8 to 3.2

Amelia Bedelia (Young Amelia, Chapter Books) Series by Herman Parish
Young Amelia Bedelia gets into a trouble frequently and has numerous interesting stories.
Number of Books in Series: 4 so far
Age Group: 6 - 11 years

Andy Russell Series by David A. Adler
The fourth-grader Andy Russell gets in trouble for not paying attention in class.

Number of Books in Series: 6
Age Group: 7 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.1 to 4.0

Annie and Snowball Series by Cynthia Rylant
Annie and her pet rabbit, Snowball, invite Henry and Mudge to a dress-up birthday party, but there is some confusion about what the guests are supposed to wear.
Number of Books in Series: 13 so far
Age Group: 4 - 7 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.1 to 3.0

Arthur (Step-into-Reading Step 3) Series by Marc Brown
Arthur doesn't believe that his little sister can really read, so he challenges her to prove it.
Number of Books in Series: 19
Age Group: 5 - 8 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 1.5 to 2.5

Arthur Chapter Books Series by Marc Brown
It looks like trouble when the principal asks Arthur to take home a large envelope marked "confidential".

Number of Books in Series: 33
Age Group: 6 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.9 to 3.8

The Berenstain Bears Big Chapter Books Series by Stan Bernestain and Jan Berenstain
Brother and Sister Bear try to solve the mystery of how illegal drugs are getting into their school.
Number of Books in Series: 33
Age Group: 6 - 12 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.6 to 5.2

Bones Mysteries Series by David A. Adler, also known as Jeffrey Bones Mysteries
Young Detective Jeffrey Bones begins gathering clues when Mr. Green asks for his help finding the school bus he lost while shopping at the mall.

Number of Books in Series: 10 so far
Age Group: 5 - 8 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.1 to 2.8

Cam Jansen Mysteries Series by David A. Adler
A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.
Number of Books in Series: 33 so far
Age Group: 7 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.2 to 3.9

Dr. Seuss Classics and More Series by Dr. Seuss, adepted by Tish Rabe and Jack Prelutsky
Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as his pseudonym, Dr. Seuss, is one of the most popular children's authors of all time. He wrote and illustrated over 44 books, plus wrote over a dozen other books under his other pseudonyms Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone, which were illustrated by others. His books have sold over 222 million copies and been translated into more than 15 languages. His books are favorites for many children, and are best known for his imaginative characters and rhyme.

Number of Books in Series: 31
Age Group: 3 years and up
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.9 to 5.2

Eloise (Original Series) Series by Kay Thompson and Mart Crowley, adapted by Kate Telfeyan
Eloise is a little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York. She is not yet pretty but she is already a Person.
She knows everything about The Plaza. She is interested in people when they are not boring.
Number of Books in Series: 5
Age Group: 4 - 8 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 4.6 to 5.9

Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels Series (comic book format) by Geronimo Stilton
The popular children's story appears in graphic novel form for the first time in the U.S., with stories never seen in America. Geronimo Stilton is a talking mouse who lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island with his friends and relatives. He works at The Rodent's Gazette, the most famous newspaper in New Mouse City. In this series of comics, Geronimo Stilton travels through time in order to defend history from his arch nemeses, the Pirate Cats. These devious felines plan to travel back in time in order to change history to make them supreme rulers of Mouse Island! In his first time-traveling adventure, Geronimo and co. join Christopher Columbus on his voyage from Italy to America in 1492 in order to stop the Pirate cats and save all of the mice on Mouse Island.

Number of Books in Series: 13 so far
Age Group: 7 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.6 to 3.7

Henry and Mudge Series by Cynthia Rylant
Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge.

Number of Books in Series: 28
Age Group: 4 - 7 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.1 to 2.9

Ivy and Bean Series by Annie Barrows
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
Number of Books in Series: 10 so far
Age Group: 6 - 10 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.1 to 3.9

Judy Moody Series by Megan McDonald
Judy Moody is a feisty third grader famous for her ever-changing moods.
Number of Books in Series: 11 so far
Age Group: 6 - 10 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.0 to 3.7

Junie B. Jones Series by Barbara Park
The series is about Junie B. Jones, the funniest kindergartener ever, as she deals with life as a five-year-old.
Number of Books in Series: 28 so far
Age Group: 5 - 9 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.6 to 3.1

The Magic School Bus Chapter Books Series by Eva Moore, Ann Schreiber, Anne Capeci, Jennifer Johnston, Judith Stamper, Rebecca Carmi, Nancy White, Martin Schwabacher, Gail Herman

Explore the fascinating world of science with Ms. Frizzle and her class as they board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips into the human body, under the ocean, into the solar system, and to many other incredible locations.
Number of Books in Series: 20
Age Group: 6 - 9 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 3.4 to 4.7

Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie discover a tree house with magical books that take them back in time to many fascinating places.

Number of Books in Series: 51 so far
Age Group: 5 - 11 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.6 to 4.0

Magic Tree House Fact Trackers (Research Guides) Series by Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce

Non-fiction research guides for the Magic Tree House books.
Number of Books in Series: 27 so far
Age Group: 6 - 10 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 4.2 to 5.6

Shakespeare Retellings Series by Bruce Coville
A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the exiled Duke of Milan who uses his magical powers to confront his enemies on an enchanted island.
Number of Books in Series: 7
Age Group: 7 - 14 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 4.9 to 7.1

Young Cam Jansen Mysteries Series by David A. Adler
When eight-year-old sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve the puzzle of the dinosaur count.
Number of Books in Series: 19 so far
Age Group: 5 - 8 years
Accelerated Reader (AR) Level: 2.3 to 2.9

Look for more series of your child’s interest

http://www.kidsbookseries.com/lists/series.php