My father's dragon

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• mathgeek · Apr 18, 2018 · Recommends

  An oldie but goodie is "My Father's Dragon" which has three books that you can get in a single binding.

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• exolymph · Apr 18, 2018 · Recommends

  I enjoyed My Father's Dragon so much! Also the Little House on the Prairie books, and then when she's a little older, everything by Tamara Pierce.

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• paulmd · May 5, 2022 · Recommends

  …she could remember, because a friend had kids and was getting to the age where they were starting to read too. Here's what she came up with (note, no particular order of difficulty or maturity here): My Father’s dragon series Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein A pizza the size of the Sun Choose your own adventure books The Great Brain The Boxcar Children series Captain Underpants Roald Dahl books: The…

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• aidenn0 · Jan 17, 2020 · Mentions

  …kids, but only three are special needs. Most of them were able to follow "adult" works from a fairly young age, but one of them was not until age 8; he struggled following simpler works (e.g. Gannett's My Father's Dragon series) in the first grade. Once it "clicked" though, he was great. When I looked into it, I found similar stories from educators of verbal skills not clicking until the 3rd or 4th grade, followed…

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