There are strong morals, good conquers evil, sacrifice is necessary, and things like that that are so great to see in chapter books for tweens. (Check out the covers – I literally want to cut out the squirrel warriors and hang them around my home. Over 5 books, The Mistmantle Chronicles series tells the stories of squirrels in a medieval-type fantasy land. Secular Chapter Books Like The Green Ember As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you click on the book title it will take you to the Amazon page to purchase the book. However, the faith-based section books are more allegory, and you’ll probably find some options for your family from both portions of the list. There are two parts of this list: secular fantasy chapter books, and faith-based fantasy chapter books. As always, preview before handing any book to your kids! With fantasy and adventure chapter books, sometimes content is too intense for kids who are old enough to be in the recommended “reading level.” Overall, the content in these books should be appropriate for any family that enjoyed The Green Ember series. However, this does not mean that it will perfectly align with what is right for your family at that age. For each book on this list, I share what the publisher recommends for the reading level. The other two, The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner, and The Black Star of Kingston, should be read after reading Green Ember.įor those of us with voracious readers, it is quite the blessing to find a fantastic and enormous – more than 2,000 pages in all! – series like Green Ember.The Green Ember series is written at about a 4th through 8th grade reading level. With that backstory, kids can start with this smaller, action-packed volume. The Last Archer and its sequels, The First Fowler and The Archer’s Cup, could serve as a good intro to the whole Green Ember series, because they stand on their own, and were a little simpler to follow for my own young listeners (ages 5-9). That’s out of order, but all the kids would have to know is that the rabbits are preparing for an enemy, and most rabbits are suspicious of the Longtreader family, because one of them had been a traitor…though the rest never were. There are three full-size sequels – Ember Falls, Ember Rising, and Ember’s End – as well as five small books that occur in the same rabbit world, but follow different characters. It’s this depth that makes this more than just a rollicking tale of rabbits in peril. Smith’s Christian worldview comes through in passages like this, that parallel the way we can recall a perfect past, and look forward to a perfected future. Though God is never mentioned, and the rabbits have no religious observance of any kind, author S.D. A window into the past and the future world. We make crutches and soups and have gardens and weddings and babies. …we anticipate the Mended Wood, the Great Wood healed…. Or as one of the wisest of these rabbits puts it, Their former and peaceful realm fell to the wolves after it was betrayed from within, so now these rabbits in exile look forward to a time when the Great Wood will be restored. They escape to a community that is hidden away from the ravaging wolves, and made up of exiled rabbits that once lived in the Great Wood. It isn’t clear if mom, dad and baby Jack are dead…but it seems like that might well be, and that could be a bit much for the very young (I’m planning on skipping over that bit when I get to it with my preschool daughters). It’s this last detail that might warrant some caution as to how appropriate this would be for the very young. The story begins with siblings Pickett and Heather being torn from the only home they’ve known, pursued by wolves, and separated from their parents and baby brother. This is children’s fiction, intended for preteens and early teens, so naturally, the heroes are children too. “Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get my two oldest daughters to beg me to start reading.Īs you might expect of a sword epic, this has a feudal feel, with rabbit lords and ladies, and noble rabbit knights and, of course, villainous wolves.
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