 Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm actually going to share with you a lot of diverse independent readers that I have started my daughter off with especially when she started to learn how to read chapter books. So if you guys are looking for diverse readers for your young readers especially for your young girls then this video is for you today. So let's go ahead and get right into all of the books. I am so excited to share them with you guys. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I am a mom of a nine three and a one year old and I am actually going into my second year of homeschooling. We already started our homeschooling year and I really find that reading has definitely been something that has been really easy in our homeschool and I really think that it has been like an easy part or easy incorporation in our homeschool because I have done a lot of research especially for my daughter to help find books that she's able to really enjoy and books she's able to really see herself through. I really wish when I was growing up and I started to read that we had these selections as far as diverse readers because I know me being a young nine year old I really would have enjoyed reading a lot of these readers. So I definitely want to go ahead and like I said before and just take out the time to share these books with you guys. Now in this video I think I'm also going to go ahead and have my daughter Brielle coming at the end and have her go through some of her favorite ones and just have her give her I guess opinions and everything about them because I technically haven't read any of these books. She has read these all on her own so I feel like she's going to be one to better give you guys like a real review versus me. I'm just going to share with you guys the titles. So the first series that I actually got for my daughter these were actually the first books that she transitioned from picture books to chapter books which was the Jada Jones series and I was so excited when I found these series just because these books definitely could relate to her. A lot of these books are just about Jada Jones. She just had like little small problems and she had to be able to figure out how to overcome them. Like one of the problems she had was on the first book where she was in a group assignment or a group project with her friends and she had to find the people she was going to work in her group with her rock project. So just simple every day I guess struggles for a young girl. This one right here the second book was Jada Jones Class Act and this one was it says that it's about her trying to join the student council and her being a candidate and running for student office. This one right here is Jada Jones sleepover or her sleepover scientist and then the last book is actually Jada Jones Dancing Queen. So honestly I am so excited that I did start my daughter off with this simple series. Inside of this Jada Jones series it still has like picture books and things like that inside of it. So I really feel like it's really engaging especially for a young reader just learning to get into chapter books. Them still having like those pictures in between and also the font is very large so it's very easy. My daughter she actually started reading these books and she was reading through them really really fast and I didn't think that she was going to get through the whole collection as fast as she did but she really enjoyed these as beginner readers last year. Now another series that she enjoyed was Zoe and the Sassafras. Now what made me go ahead and purchase this series was because this actually goes along with science and STEM. So a lot of the topics that we were talking about science last year I went ahead and I had Brielle independently read one of the Zoe and the Sassafras books. Like this is the whole collection we ended up getting just because I really find that this was a fun way for her to read something independently for her to learn about something new in science. In the back of each one of these books they do have like a little glossary with the meanings and the things that they were talking about and I really loved it. I loved it for the fact that it was just showing a young girl especially Brielle's age interested in science and things like that and I think it's really empowering for girls to see that you know they can do things in science and STEM as well. So these were definitely good simple chapter book readers for her to start off with and she enjoyed the series. I think it's only one book in the series she hasn't finished reading however she told me she has to finish the last book because my daughter loves reading series and she just likes just going from the one book to the next. So yeah I mean but honestly you guys as an adult I don't blame her I like reading books and series as well too so yeah. So the Zoe and the Sassafras I think they're on book nine right now. As far as like the whole series we actually have books one through eight. Now another series that Brielle actually read through over the summer was ways to make sunshine and ways to grow love and this actually follows a young girl named Ryan and it just follows her journey with her parents moving to a new area and it also follows them ways to grow love actually follows the family as they introduce a new sibling in their household and I really feel like these were definitely age-appropriate stories for her to read. I really feel like culturally these stories my daughter was definitely able to identify in in ways to make sunshine. It was a chapter that my daughter ran to me. I was all the way downstairs and she ran downstairs just to tell me about a chapter in this book and I'll give you guys a little spoiler but Ryan she actually got her hair flat iron and she went to a pool party and as you guys already know Ryan's hair it just ended up being back in its curly state and one thing that Brielle she enjoyed about that chapter written about Ryan I guess getting her hair wet and it going from being straight to curly she really enjoyed how her parents didn't I guess recommend her for getting her hair wet. They told her you know her hair was beautiful whether it was straight or curly and my daughter she really liked that chapter in this book and I thought that it was a really cute and funny one especially when she came back and told me about it. So again this is ways to make sunshine and ways to grow love. I feel like out of all the books after each chapter my daughter came to tell me about more so when she read this one then the Jada Jones and the Zoe Sassafrass so I think these ones were probably some of her favorites. Another series that my daughter read last year was the Magnificent Maya Tips and this book actually has three series to it when she finished reading like Jada Jones and Zoe and the Sassafrass she moved into these bigger chapter books with no pictures and she really just devoured these books and I was really proud of her because I thought that transitional phase going into chapter books would be a little bit longer however once she kind of like got the feel for these chapter books she was just on and she was ready to go. I definitely feel like the Magnificent Maya Tips was like her favorite series of all last year just because after every chapter she would say mommy that chapter was so juicy and she would just come back and tell me about everything in these chapters and I really feel like this series was probably her best. I could be wrong we'll find out when we talk with her a little bit later but she really enjoyed this series and I really feel like this is a young series this follows along Maya tips who was a nine-year-old and it just just follows her along her journey within school within again adding a new baby in her family and then also follows along with her. This one was a really good one that I liked when Brielle read it followed her along her journey when they had Spirit Week at school and she was paired with someone that she necessarily didn't like and in the end they became friends and I really liked for Brielle to read about these social situations just because she will be faced with these situations especially growing up where she does have to work with people who she may not agree with but at the end of the day they have to be able to get that project done and I really enjoyed her reading this book and I think she really enjoyed this one as well. So if you have like a nine-year-old girl who you feel as if is ready for to talk about like just social type of regular things that they deal with especially at that age I really feel like the Maya tip series is definitely a good one. My daughter has not always been homeschooled we're like I said before we're going into our second year of homeschooling so these school and social situations she definitely was able to relate to them because she probably faced a lot of these especially when she was in public school so yeah these were definitely her favorite. Now I have some of the new books that actually picked out for her for this year she's actually started on a few of these series and some of them she hasn't so I really don't know how they are this is the only series that she's almost finished with which is Ruby and the Booker brothers and this series follows Ruby as she's going into school with her older three brothers who are really popular and they already have a name for themselves and Ruby has to go in and has to show people who she is outside of her brothers and so far Brielle has enjoyed this series um I guess we'll see how she likes it when she talks to us but I mean she hasn't said anything bad about them and she's been devouring these books I really feel like these books are a easier read for her especially since she's already passed like that um hump of going from the chapter books with bigger font and still having pictures in them this honestly I would say it's like an earlier reader however I still like to give her a little bit of mixture because I don't want to just give her um books that are just really really challenging all the time because I still want to test like her comprehension and to make sure that she's able to comprehend what she read and the story so I do like to give her a mixture of books that are actually on her great level as far as reading comprehension and then others that are a little bit below or right in between um just to continuously give her that variety but this series again is called Ruby and the Broker Brothers oh here goes the last one sorry you guys here goes all of them in the series so yeah so these books right here you guys I actually got a lot of these ones from Free from the Kellogg's um book promotion if you guys don't know Kellogg's the stereo every year during back to school time they typically have like a book promotion where um if you buy a box of cereal um you can get a free book so a lot of these books actually were free um from the Kellogg's and I'm really excited that I was able to get my hands on these and these are the Diamond Daniel series I'm not too sure if Brielle started these yet or just read the first one but um this one the first one is called Diamond Daniels Make Way for Diamond Daniels is the first one the second one is Diamond Daniels Rich this one is Diamond Daniels almost zero and this one is Diamond Daniels Halfway to Perfect so this series has four books in total and like I said I don't know if Brielle started these or not but when we ask her we'll see but these are actually on her list for her independent fund readers that I have her um reading in the afternoon or the evening another new series that I got for Brielle is um this one is called um Lena in the Spotlight and this one actually is a series of three books so I'm really oh let me put it in order so I'm really excited for her to read this series this series is um pretty much just about a 12 year old girl who um pretty much is able to follow her dreams in the spotlight she's able to act but also too she has to be able to balance um just school life and family life as well um along with pursuing her dreams at a young age so we haven't gotten into these books she hasn't gotten into these independent readers but I'm really excited for her to follow Lena in her journey um I really think that she would like these as you guys can kind of see my daughter has a trend to the specific books that she likes she loves reading books just about regular everyday people in their life um she's not really into like the animal or the mystery books these books right here are right up on her alley so when I seen this um Lena in the spotlight series I definitely had to get it for her and again these um come with three this one is hello star this one is daydreamers and movie screens and the last one is shining night so I can't wait for breeder wreathies and I hopefully she likes them as well now another book that I actually got for her is liberty porter first daughter and um this is about a girl it sounds exactly what it's about her being in the white house she's the first daughter and I'm really excited for her to read these ones this one I believe comes in a series of four and again my daughter loves series so if she likes the first one I always go back and buy like the rest of them I just want to make sure she likes them so this is another series that she's going to read this year hopefully it's good I would definitely have to come back and make a later video especially on the books that she hasn't read yet you guys just to let you know how they turned out if she liked them and like what were her ratings for them but this is called again liberty porter's first daughter okay we go ahead and pick out your top three series you like to share with everybody okay so these are my top three series on the floor right here yeah and okay so go ahead if you could if you had to number them one to three will be your first favorite series you've ever read um my first favorite series would be magnificent my tips yeah and what I like about the series is how it was just talking about Maya and her and her hard times and her good times and she was making new friends and she was doing different challenges and I just like this because I dug straight into this one right here and all of them I dug straight into them and it was really fun reading them and then and these are also were also my first chapter books your first bigger chapter books because you started off with jay jones and um that got me just reading all my these other chapter books I have inside my bookshelf and now and so if it's if it's a young girl or young boy you would definitely recommend them to read the my tip series yes okay now let's see your second favorite who would not want okay let's see your second favorite okay the next second favorite is ways to grow sunshine uh ways to make sunshine ways to grow up I love this one and this one this one was really nice it it's pretty big and I like I like um big chapter books like my tips so I like this one because it was pretty big and I got deep into you did and I like the pictures on it it was really cute and in there and there it was just like a mystery kind of because they're trying to figure out who owned something and this one okay try not to get to me spoilers okay I'm not just spoiling out too much good job and you you just said earlier you wish that this book had a third book on ways to make sunshine I wish I had a third book because it I just after I read this one the last book of the series I just want more I just feel like it was the end like after this page right here I was like I want more well we'll see if the author might decide to make a third book in her series so now your third favorite is actually Ruby and the Booker Brothers that was a new book just for Booker Brothers thanks for that's the book you just read this year so or the series you just got finished reading this year yeah I got finished reading this one I started on I started on um first day of school and it took me two days to read this one because I looked at my read vlog and it said 8 um it says August 4th and I start my first day of school on August 2nd okay good job so Ruby so what is could you give mommy a short summary about that series so I like this series because I liked how she was going on a different adventure in each one and I liked how she was always getting along with her brothers and never fighting all the time I mean she was kind of fighting with her brother in this one but she was I just like how she was always nice and um and kind to other people and not me I just like to have she was nice sister even though she was the youngest she was always a nice sister and um she um she's just doing all types of stuff and she's in third grade and yeah so you really liked it okay I really liked it it was a really good series even though there are pretty thin books I still liked it you still liked it okay alright thanks for your review you're welcome and I hope you can get these books so you can enjoy them so you guys I really hope you enjoy seeing all of the diverse readers and things like that that I have picked out for my daughter uh books that she has read books that she's gonna read I hope you guys enjoy watching her talk about her favorites and everything like that as always you guys I hope this video was helpful to any of you so um as always I will see everybody in my next one please don't forget to comment like and subscribe and yeah bye you guys