Christian has never been big on reading. He could read, but when it came to books he just wasn't interested in it... After 1st grade he was reading at grade level. A couple of months into 2nd grade and he was reading at 4th grade level but still wasn't into it. A couple of months ago Christians teacher started an Accelerated Reader contest by splitting the class in half and challenging them to read, read, read...
Christian has accepted the challenge and started to read. He started with Shiloh, and gave a good effort but had trouble understanding it, I think because it was in the 30s and he wasn't relating to it even though he loves the movie. Then he found the Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist books and loved them. After seeing him getting into reading I decided it was time to visit the library to get more books. We ordered the other FKS books and the librarian gave us ideas on other books he might like.
At this point he has read all 6 FKS books, 3 Frankie Pickle books, 3 Gecko and Sticky books, 2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and a handful of others. All he needed was the motivation and ..POOF.. he turned into a reader!!!