Review for “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X”
We trust our girlfriends for recipes, reviews and recommendations – right?!
Well, sometimes we even have to trust them to help us get a review of a book for a pre-teen boy. That’s what I had to do and fortunately my girlfriend Tina was there to help. We shipped the book “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X” off to her nephew Ian in CA. (THANKS IAN!)
Before Ian’s well-written review, I’ll give you the overview of “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X” – here’s some info that you, as a mom, or as a girlfriend to a mom, might need to know:
- A recent study conducted by the Young Adult Library Services Assn. says that the #1 reason boys don’t like to read is that they simply think “it’s boring.” They also “like other activities better” and “can’t get into the stories.”
James Patterson, father of a 10 year-old son has been advocating for years that the best ways to get people excited abut reading is to give them books they’re going to love. So, James, father of Jack, wrote a book for boys to enjoy and, according to Ian, love reading.
Per 10-year old Ian:
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Paterson and Michael Ledwidge was one of the best books I have read. If you love sci-fi adventures with lots of action and extraterrestrials, this is the right book for you! I liked it because I love action and adventure books. I stayed up for hours reading it, and my parents had to come in to tell me it was too late and I needed to go to bed. The book is easy to read because the chapters are only two to three pages long. This book is about a boy with powers and he is trying to save the world and defeat aliens from different galaxies that are trying to kill him. I am in the seventh grade, and this book is so good I would recommend it to anyone!
Okay, moms and aunts (and girlfriends of), is this true that boys need better boys to encourage them to read? Looks like this might be a great gift for a boys from one of the bestselling authors ever. His novels have sold more than 140 million copies worldwide. You may have already been a fan and now your son may join you!
What books do your kids love to read? What were their favorite summer books? Any advice for moms with boys in the pre-teen years who have no interest in reading? You can trust your girlfreinds. Share some great advice with us!
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Better books or more knowledge of the books that are available? I’ll admit having a PR/marketing background and then becoming a librarian, libraries are not the best at promoting their services.
We’re great at getting parents and kids through the door for storytime and then their attendance tapers off in the tween/teen years. They’re busy with school, homework, activities and sports that libraries are not always on their radar (unless parents need a place to pawn off kids). If the parents do not value reading and/or allow activities, sports, computing and video games to take precedence over reading, the child is unlikely to value reading.
Parents and children seem to forget (don’t realize) they can seek a librarian’s help for book recommendations, but she cannot help you if you provide little or no information about what you like. We conduct the reference interview to elicit information to help fulfill your request, not because we’re keeping tabs on you
This <a href=”http://misadventuresofmonsterlibrary.blogspot.com/2008/08/lazy-parents-please-stand-up-please.html”post from Monster Librarian is a good example of the frustrating parent/child-librarian interactions we often face.
Take your kids to the library, get books/audiobooks, if they don’t like them, go back and get others. Rinse and repeat!
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