My Reading Machines

As Karan was growing up, he always had a passion for reading! At that time he was enrolled in a private school in Michigan and almost everyone knew him as "The Reading Machine." He was only in 2nd grade and reading 200-300 page books. I still remember going to a Book Store at the mall and having an employee help me find books suitable for him. She was absolutely shocked at the size of books he could read at the age of only 6!

Shalu, on the other hand, loves reading, but only short chapter books with larger fonts :) If I suggest a book to her, she will first look at the size of the font and/or how many pages it has!!

Karan is always getting on her case to challenge herself and telling her to read books that are ahead of her grade level.

For one of her her Language Arts Book Studies, she had to read the first book of The Box Car Children Series. She fell in love! She was addicted! She would finish 1-2 books in a day!! She even started getting the big Special Edition books too and would finish reading those in 1 day!Where ever we went, her book went with her--in the car, to the restaurant, etc.

Karan still didn't think this was challenging enough for her (Neither did I!!), so he finally convinced her to read The Percy Jackson Series( by: Rick Riordan). He had been telling her to read this series for several months now, but as soon as she saw the small font and amount of pages, her answer was NO! Now Shalu knew that 2 of her cousins who are just a few months older than her had been reading the series, she finally agreed! :) :) YIPEE! 

We own the 1st book, so she finished it in about 3-4 days. Karan put a hold at the library for the other 4 books, but Shalu couldn't wait. She begged and begged me to buy her the book on the Nook right away. Finally I did!  She finished it in less than 24 hours! :) :) She just started the series Last week and is almost onto the 4th book in the 5 book series. These books range in 125 pages- 416 pages!! Every second she gets, she wants to read. And she is always gasping and yelling, "Oh My Gosh! He's alive??!!!" or " What?? That's HIS son??!!" LOL! It is so so cute to hear her. I am just so so so glad that she is finally reading something challenging! WOO HOO! :) This series is mostly intended for 6th-8th grade level. Now we can finally say our Little Shalu is reading 2-3 years ahead of Grade Level.

Of course this is Thanks to my brilliant son!

And you know what else I have to thank for this????

PEER PRESSURE!! Sometimes it works wonders and is a great thing...... :)