For "reading" or "literature" time, what book is your child reading? My daughter is reading Children of the New Forest and  Alice in Wonderland . She doesn't love Children of the New Forest, but is enjoying Alice in Wonderland very much.

My 10 year old is loving the Hall Family Chronicle series by Jane Langton, fiction, fantasy genre, for ages 9-12. The first books were published in the late 1960s and the newest in the series #8 will be published in June 2008. One of them is the Newbery winner The Fledgling. They do not need to be read in order or as a series. He got started on #6 which was about a bike the kids rode that was a time machine. He is reading the 4th book right now.

My younger son, grade 2 was reading the Secrets of Droon which I do NOT consider great literature. He just finally got sick of it and I am having him read easy biographies, history and he just read a long-text picture book Hercules story. He is enjoying doing the different topics not just fiction for his "reading practice".

My 6th grader is  reading a book called Time cat it's kinda historical and science fiction because the boy and cat travel back in time.

my 4th grader is reading a series of books called the secrets of droon.

my 2nd grader I cannot get to read she hates reading so we have bought her a mp3 player and we are planning to download some audio books.

My 9 y.o. is reading through some Madeleine L'Engle books after reading From The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler for a novel unit.  Previously he read all the books in the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH series.  He's always reading a lot of non-fiction.  Today it was our Health Encyclopedia - looking up all my medical issues and meds.  LOL!  He continuously reads his Geronimo Stilton books.  They are so much fun!  He has two pet mice so that helps ;-)

My senior is reading "Beowulf " for class and "The Hunt for Red October" on his own. My freshman is reading "A Morbid Taste For Bones" for lit. (it's a murder mystery set in the Middle Ages) She just finished "The Secret Sharer" by Conrad.

My 13-year-old 8th grader has been reading:

"Hood" by Stephen Lawhead (loved it--Lawhead researched and reworked the Robin Hood legend);
"Eulalia" by Brian Jacques (the latest Redwall book--they're all great!);
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (assigned by her Civil War reenacting group);
"Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll (for her literature curriculum); and
"Much Ado About Nothing" by Shakespeare (because she loved the movie, and because I was teaching it to the high school drama class at my co-op and she got interested).

She's also recently read through all of the Matthew Bartholmew Chronicles by Susanna Gregory.  They're a British murder mystery series set in medieval times.  (I liked them myself..)

I find that we've been swiping each other's books lately.  I originally checked "Hood" out of the library for myself, but somehow she managed to read it first.  

My 8yo just finished Because of Winn-Dixie. She gave DH & I an "oral report" on it on Friday, complete with posters and all! :) Right after, we put the DVD on to see how the book was similar to/different from the novel. This was her first time doing any major report like this, so I'm happy to say that she had a lot of fun with it. :)