Read Alouds for
Boys
(Middle
School)
Contributor's
Form (list #258)
- Avi. SOMETHING UPSTAIRS
- Bauer, ?. Sticks
- Bloor. Tangerine
- Brooks, Moves Make the Man - -
basketball theme
- Crutcher, Chris IRON MAN
- Curtis, Watson's go to
Birmingham
- George, Jean Craighead. My Side of
the Mountain (young Sam Gribley takes a penknife, a ball of
cord, an ax, some flint and steel and $40 and runs away from home
in NYC to forge a life in the wilderness of the Catskill
Mountains
- Hinton, S.E. any book
- Hobbs, Will. Far North
- Hobbs, Will. (many)
- Lawrence, Iain. The Wreckers
- Lipstye, The Contender - - read a
while ago but has something to do with a former boxer and or
police officer.
- Lowery, Lois. The Giver Maniac
Magee by Spinelli!
- Paulsen , Gary . Hatchet
- Paulsen , Gary . Soldier's Heart
- Paulsen, Gary Harris and Me. Has
enough gross boy humor to keep them laughing, interested and
thinking.
- Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Winter.
- Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs
Would Die
- Sachar, Louis Holes! This was
probably my favorite Children's book from last year.
- Spinelli, Jerry. Crash
- Spinelli, Jerry. The Library Card
by has 4 stories in the book. My favorite is the first one,
about a boy who doesn't think learning is important. It's a GREAT
story!!
- Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer
- Taylor, Theodore. The Cay by where
an English boy and an East Indies man are shipwrecked on a
Pacific island after their vessel is torpedoed during World War II
- survival, war and racial and age issues all involved here.
- Walter, Virginia, Making Up
Megaboy
- White, Robb. Deathwatch.
Professional Resources:
- Odean, Kathleen. Great books for
boys: more than 600 books for boys 2-14. -- NY : Ballantine Books,
1998. 384p. Includes title index; author index; category
index. ISBN 0345420837
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