Your child reads, but slowly — a book a month, if you're lucky, and half of them stall out on the nightstand. This trail speeds them up. Start at the top, and each book after it pulls a little harder than the one before, so a child who reads a book a month is trained into a child who finishes one in a week. Nothing on this trail is homework. Every rung is a page-turner picked because it's hard to put down, and the ones near the bottom are the hardest of all — that's the whole trick. By the time they hit the last one, reading fast will feel normal.
The one thing that climbs on this trail is how hard the book pulls you through it, not how hard it is to read. Start at the top with The Wild Robot, which looks like a fat book and flies like a paper airplane — that surprise is on purpose, because a slow reader who finishes something thick fast stops being scared of thick. From there each rung is picked to pull a touch harder than the last, all the way down to Restart, which almost nobody puts down until it's done. Notice the reading level actually gets EASIER near the bottom, not harder — The Lemonade War is the simplest book here and it sits near the end, because this trail measures speed and pull, never difficulty. Let each book get finished before you hand over the next, and let your child feel themselves getting faster. That feeling is the entire point.