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My daughter and I are at an impasse. She is a competent reader, and started reading relatively young. She has always read above her age, but recently she’s reverted to reading books that are really too young for her. We had a chat and she said older books are boring, and she likes funny books. The thing is, I’d also like her to get something useful out of reading, which I’m not sure she’s getting from Captain Underpants!

Does anyone have recommendations that are both challenging from a vocabulary/reading ability perspective, but are also light hearted and funny to keep her interested?

My daughter and I are at an impasse. She is a competent reader, and started reading relatively young. She has always read above her age, but recently she’s reverted to reading books that are really too young for her. We had a chat and she said older books are boring, and she likes funny books. The thing is, I’d also like her to get something useful out of reading, which I’m not sure she’s getting from Captain Underpants!

Does anyone have recommendations that are both challenging from a vocabulary/reading ability perspective, but are also light hearted and funny to keep her interested?

EDIT: thank you so much everyone who responded, both with book suggestions and comments on the background to my request. I will not be taking away the books she loves. And you’re right, I’ve let myself get in my own head about what she should or could be reading, and forgot that reading is for the joy of it. I’ll still be taking a lot of these suggestions as ideas for our future library trips, but I won’t tell her she needs to read ‘older’ books or that she can’t enjoy the ones she’s been reading already.