Magic Tree House

Magic Tree House books are great young reader chapter books. This is a series by Mary Pope Osborne (click here for author page) that takes children to all sorts of places. Jack and Annie find this magic tree house filled with books and through the books they magically travel to places like jungles and go to historical time periods such as those with knights protecting their kingdoms. The series is written at a third and fourth grade vocabulary level but can be great read-a-louds to younger readers. Another great thing about the Magic Tree House books is that the author has created some non-fiction companion books to go with the fictional stories called the Fact Trackers. For example, to go with the story with the setting in Egypt, there is a non-fiction book on the Pyramids and the Mummies. These are also well written and designed for elementary age readers.