Junie B. Jones, Magic Treehouse, and...?

Yes, "Calvin and Hobbes" was very popular with my kid too. She has a very good friend who is a stuffed bear, so she identified.

Has your son read "Tintin"? She loved that too.

"Matilda" is a book by Roald Dahl ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach") It's about a very smart and very nice girl who figures out she has some special powers... more here:

http://www.amazon.com/Matilda-Roald-Dahl/dp/0141301066

Indeed.

I forgot -- a few nights ago, sozlet said, "Can you tell the A2K people that I also really liked that part about [here she gave the quote but she lent the book to her teacher and I forget it -- it was about how you know something's wrong when dolphins who normally can use echolocation to find a quarter on the bottom of the river can't tell when they're about to be brained by a boat...]"

Cool -- she's going to infect her teacher with her enthusiasm now. I bet he/she is now an Obama voter, too.

My Son has a recommendation.
"Hi I just looked at the list with my mom.I really liked a series of books called
the Bailey School Kids. There are four third graders and they go on silly mysteries that might not be real."
He found it amusing that You have not read Harry Potter yet. He devoured them last school year. On an average one book per school week and then a report. I had the luxury of reading the book reports and editing them. So I got my taste of them.

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

I'm sure Oliver Sacks didn't write his Anthropologist on Mars for children. But when I re-read it between the years, it struck me that nothing in the book would prevent an intelligent child from enjoying it. The language isn't hard, and the subjects of the essays might well be a magnet for a child with a taste for interesting weirdness. And I do like Sacks's medical relativism -- don't think of autists and the deaf as people whom there's something wrong with; think of them as cultures in their own right. Although this perspective isn't an intellectual panacea, I find it well worth introducing to other people's children.

Horrible HArry, by Suzie Kline

What's sozlet reading these days? If I remember correctly she's heading for the third grade but probably reading a bit further, and seems to enjoy a lot of the same things that Duckie likes. The little ducks have recently taken a liking to Jules Verne, though on audiobook, not reading themselves. I was kind of surprised that they liked it because the language is not what they're used to, but they adored Journey to the Center of the Earth (great for long car rides) and are now listening to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I thought I'd drop it here as a suggestion.

Also, Duckie has been making his way through all the Harry Potter books he can find in the library. I know he's late to the trend, but it seems to have been timed right for him.