This list is dedicated to all those boys who aren't sure they like to read -- but chances are just haven't found the right book.
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By: Jenny Miller,
on 9/5/2011
Blog: Where The Best Books Are! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Thriller (Volume 2 of Guys Read), edited by Jon Sciezka, with illustrations by Brett Helquist, Walden Pond Press, $16.99, ages 8-12, 288 pages. Here's a book for any boy who likes to imagine himself tempting danger or getting out of a bind, but doesn't necessarily want to do any such thing. The latest in Sciezka's brilliant effort to tailor books to reluctant boy readers, Thriller contains 10 bite-size stories (the longest is 42 pages) about gripping situations that readers don't find themselves in every day (but kind of wish they did -- kind of. ) And what's incredible is that every one is written by a leading children's authors of thrillers -- names you can almost recognize by the last name alone, such as Haddix, Horowitz and Patterson. The stories are about as different from each other as you can imagine in one book, but each one grips onto you and a few even toss you around. There's the one about a boy who gets thrown over the edge of a twelve-story building, another about a boy trying to rescue his dad from animal smugglers ("pet mafia") while being chased by a komodo dragon, and one about a dead boy who's haunting a house, but isn't half as scary as the thugs upstairs. Readers will wander in and out of lives that are fictional, but at times feel real, like the 14-year-old Somalian boy who gets thrown into a life of piracy after foreigners poison his family's fishing waters. If your boys like this, don't miss the first in the Guys Read series Funny Business, short stories by humorous children's authors. For more great boy titles, check out Sciezka's Guys Read website here.
3:15 Season One: Things That Go Bump In the Night, by Patrick Carman, Scholastic, $12.99, ages 9-12, 176 pages. It may be a little early for terrifying tales -- Halloween is still almost two months away -- but this interactive book is worth getting right now. Why? Because it's about as boy friendly as a book can get. For one, It's a horror thriller, and for two, it encourages readers to get on the computer between chapters. The book is built around an exciting online concept that's based on the time 3:15. That time is significant by itself, but also for other reasons, according to the book's fictional narrator Paul Chandler. First, 3:15 a.m. is when things might go b
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By: Jenny Miller,
on 9/5/2011
Blog: Where The Best Books Are! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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