Charge of the Lightning Bugs: A Branches Book (the Notebook of Doom #8)

This is a wonderful series of books, Well written and illustrated. Chapters are a perfect length to keep attention. Follow Alexander Bopp on a journey battling monsters in his new home town as he meets a few new friends and teams up with them to save his school and town. Each book can be standalone, but sometimes they pull from previous stories.

My second grade son loves to read and LOVES all things spooky. Although he loves to read he's been a little behind in starting reading chapter books. These are the first chapter books he's been really into. He can read them on his own, but reads them slowly and struggles with an occasional word. They are definitely age appropriate though and he is starting to get faster reading them independently. Whether he's reading them on his own or we're reading them to him, he's completely captivated by these stories. He loves the monsters and the art work throughout the book. As a parent, I enjoy the stories too. They are cute, funny stories, without any obnoxious characters or storylines. I love that my son gets so absorbed in the stories and is having so much fun reading them!

My 9 year old loves these books. He has the whole collection so far. Not too scary or anything for young kids. They have a lot of cute and funny drawings throughout the book to possibly help keep kids attention that might not like to read as much. Definitely a good buy for young boy readers!

My grandson loves this series. He started reading this book the day it arrived and finished that night. He is anxiously awaiting a #9. I'm just happy there are such wonderful books available at such a reasonable price to encourage our children and, in my case, grandchildren to read.

My son has read all of these books. He was finally excited about reading! Now my reluctant reader looks for the new additions coming out... Anything that gets him excited about reading is worth five stars in my book!

My second grader eats this series for breakfast! We have to force him to slow down reading these. Highly recommend if you have a 2nd grade boy who you want to get excited about reading! (Our public school library carries the series, so I know it’s not total junk too.)

My son continues to enjoy this series. I only wish the reading level was higher. On the other hand it keeps my baby reading.

My autistic daughter absolutely loves the series. As kids' books go, this series is pretty solid. My daughter loves the illustrations and the characters are fairly memorable. She carries the entire set with her whenever she gets in the car and loves to share them with her friends.

I really liked the book it was amazing!I liked the part when the S.S.M.P. battled the "Thunder bug" it was awesome :)!You are the best author!I was like what is going on when everything was so wonky in Stermont.

It is a great book for adults and the kids to read together. My son is five years old and loves monsters and adventures. I bought all eight books of the series and can't wait for the nineth.

We read a different Scholastic books series first and needed another good "first chapter" series with lots of pictures to keep their attention. They LOVE the characters and guessing who is the baddie and/or what could happen next. Whenever possible we use the Kindle edition and broadcast it to our TV via our Amazon Firebox (via wireless projection) so that everyone can see the text and the pictures. Unfortunately not all the books are available for Amazon Kindle, so some books we had to buy as hard paper and we are running out of space in our bookshelves as we have sooo many books, so we prefer electronic copies. Electronic copies also allow us to share it onto their Amazon Fire tablets for kids. Again, LOVED by all of our kids and we have different ages and grasp of the world. It has gone so far, that our boys have us print out the monsters, trace them and then colour them in!

Awesome book we bought the whole series

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