I read this novel with my child study little boy. He loves the series and I had never read it before but see all the books in the Scholastic book orders. It was all that he could talk about for the first few weeks of child study and then I finally brought a book in and he got so excited. We read it. It was a quick, easy read but it was action packed. The chapters were cliff hangers and it was realistic at least to the second grader. What he really likes about the book is that the characters stay consistent through all the books and there are TONS of them and they all start the same way for the most part, so it is actually a series, rather than the Star Wars books that have a wide variety of different authors and different things going on that don't really connect. There is a lot of dialogue and easy for kids to get in to. I would definitely read them as a read a loud or have them as free read books. It was about an 80 or 90 page novel, so it was easy to get through and the little boy reads pretty well and gets through them pretty fast if he sticks with it. By giving kids fun books like this to read I think it is easy for them to get wrapped up in and relate it to interests in there like and making connecting. I know a big thing we talk about in block A about reading for meaning and making connections is a big part of that. I think it is awesome when children are making connects to text and they are enjoying it, rather then being forced to read and forced to make connections or asked low level comprehension questions guided by the teacher.
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