Books your "onlies" like

Do you think she'd like the Guardians of Ga'Hoole books if you read them to her? I will say that they are so very different (and better, in my humble opinion) than the movie. They can get a bit dark, but not nearly as dark as Harry Potter. I read them to my DD. The movie was pretty intense and I think that it's easier to create your own mental images without the filmmakers creating the pictures for you (and in some cases much more graphic or disturbing than what our minds paint). We often do maybe a chapter or two at bedtime.

Has he ever read the "Dear America" books? They are historical fiction written in diary format. We've read some. There's a 3-book series about a boy named Joshua who travels with his family on the Oregon Trail. Another 2-3 book series about a boy (can't recall his name at the moment) on the Underground Railroad. We also read one about a girl named Bess Brennan who was blind (also fiction, but historical) and went to the Perkins School for the Blind and learned braille. My daughter went on to have great interest in Braille and we now own a Perkins Brailler (thanks to my mom, who's also known as Santa Claus).