Research Guides: Early & Emergent Readers: Advanced Reader

The Advanced Reader

The advanced reader is in the final stage of reader development. Previous knowledge can ease the formulation of new and complex vocabulary, but the reader is still developing advanced reading skills. Parents sit back and enjoy, reading allowed can now be fun.

Advanced Reader

Cricket Man by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Call Number: Y NAY
Publication Date: 2008
Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.
Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
Call Number: Y 741 D
Publication Date: 2012
Mirka is back, and this time she takes on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. Our heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-part challenge ... or be banished from Hereville!