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books for
boys who don’t love to read
** Indicates
additional titles by the author.
junior picturebooks
Allard, Harry**
The Stupids step out
Arnold, Ted
parts
Barton, Byron**
airport
big machines
bones,
bones, dinosaur bones
Carrick, Carol**
Patrick's dinosaurs
Coy, John
Night driving
DiTerlizzi, Tony
Jimmy Zangwow's out-of-this-world, moon pie adventure
Krauss, Ruth
The carrot seed
Steig, William**
sylvester and the
magic pebble
Dr. desoto
Wick, Walter**
i spy books
Willems, Mo
Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!
A young pigeon tries everything he can to persuade someone to let him drive
the bus.
junior easy books
Brown, Jeff
flat stanley
Eastman, P. D. JE-1R
Go, dog, go
O'Connor, Jane
Eek!
stories to make you shriek
Lobel, Arnold**
frog and toad books
Osbourne, Mary
Pope**
magic
treehouse series
Pilkey, Dav**
Kat Kong
Dogzilla
Rylant, Cynthia**
Henry and Mudge
Schwartz, Alvin
IN
A DARK, DARK ROOM; AND OTHER SCARY STORIES
Sharmat, Marjorie **
Nate the great
Weston, Martha
Space guys!
Junior fiction
Arter, Jim
Gruel
and unusual punishment
Undaunted by his second stint in the
seventh-grade, Arnold continues to specialize in annoying and anti-social behavior but becomes
uncomfortably aware that the teacher he calls Apeface
has taken a special interest in
his "case."
Banks, Lynne Reid**
Harry the poisonous centipede: a story to make you squirm
When their
adventures lead them to explore the biggest and
scariest villain of all, Harry and George realize that they are not brave, only reckless and foolish.
Base, Graeme
The discovery of dragons
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Catling, Patrick
The Chocolate touch
A boy
acquires a magical gift that
turns everything his lips touch into chocolate.
Colfer, Eoin YA Fiction
Artemis Fowl
When a twelve-year-old evil genius
tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold,
the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and
a particularly nasty troll.
Collins, Suzanne
Gregor the Overlander
When eleven-year-old Gregor and
his two-year-old sister are
pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats,
cockroaches, and spiders while
on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Dahl, Roald**
James and the Giant
Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate
FActory
Erickson, John **
The original adventures of Hank
the Cowdog Series
Hank the Cowdog is framed for the
murder of a chicken and becomes
an outlaw with the coyotes.
Gantos, Jack
Joey Pigza swallowed the key
To the constant disappointment of his
mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his
mood swings when his prescription meds
wear off and he starts getting
worked up and acting wired.
George, Jean Craighead**
My side of the
mountain
A young boy
relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill
Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his
animal friends, and his ultimate
realization that he needs human companionship.
Griffiths, Andy J Paperback
The day
my butt went psycho!
Halam, Ann
Dr. Franklin's island
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean,
three science students are left
stranded on a tropical island and
then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on
humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker
After the death of the uncle who had
been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex
Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work
for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Howe, Deborah**
Bunnicula: a rabbit tale of mystery
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog,
Chester the cat tries to warn
his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
Mikaelsen, Ben YA Fiction
Touching Spirit Bear
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to
prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native
American Circle Justice, and he
is sent to a remote Alaskan
Island where an
encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Nimmo, Jenny**
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie Bone's life with his
widowed mother and two
grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.
Oppel, Kenneth**
Silverwing
When a newborn bat named Shade but
sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during
migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
Pauslen, Gary** YA
Fiction
hatchet
After a plane crash,
thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to
survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents'
divorce.
Peck, Richard**
A long way from Chicago
A boy
recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great
Depression to visit their larger-than-life
grandmother.
Pilkey, Dav**
captain underpants series
Rowling, J.K.**
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone
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Sachar, Louis YA
Fiction
Holes
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a
curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is
sent to a hellish correctional camp
in the Texas
desert where he finds his first real
friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Scieszka, Jon**
The Stinky Cheese Man
and other fairly stupid tales
time warp trio series
Shan, Darren**
Cirque
du Freak Series
Two boys who are best friends
visit an illegal freak show,
where an encounter with a vampire and
a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing
choices.
Snickett, Lemony**
the bad beginning: a series of unfortunate events
After the sudden death of their
parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits
when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian
is determined to use any means necessary to get
their fortune.
Spinelli, Jerry** YA
Fiction
Maniac Magee
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel
Magee's life becomes legendary,
as he accomplishes athletic and
other feats which awe his
contemporaries.
Taylor, Theodore**
the cay
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine
during World War II, an adolescent white boy,
blinded by a blow on the head, and
an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the
boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Wallace, Bill**
A dog called Kitty
Afraid of dogs since he was attacked by a mad
one, Ricky resists taking in a
homeless pup that shows up at the farm.
junior non-fiction
Many boys are
interested in factual (non-fiction) books instead of fiction. Choose books
based on subjects they care
about such as sports, extreme sports, cars,
military vehicles & weapons, etc. Below are
a few non-fiction titles that may
be of interest.
Brandenburg, Jim J OS 599.74442
To the top of the world: adventures with Arctic wolves
Birdseye, Tom J690.89
A
kids' guide to building forts
Presents a brief history of forts, step-by-step instructions for building
indoor and outdoor forts, hints
on where to obtain materials, and
safety tips.
Davis, Jim** J741.5
Garfield Series
Dragonology:
the complete book of dragons J398.2454
eyewitness
books
On our library’s card catalog, do a Word search and type in “Eyewitness Books” to see a list of all
the titles we have in this series.
Fleischman,
John J612.82
Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science
Grandits, John J811.6
Technically, it's not my fault:
concrete poems
Guinness world Book of Records
J031.02
Macaulay, David J600
The way things work
Schwartz, Alvin** J398.25
scary stories to tell in the dark
Watterson, Bill** J741.5
Something under the bed
is drooling: a Calvin and Hobbes
collection
Wulffson, Don J609
The
kid who invented the trampoline: more surprising stories about inventions
While compiling this booklist, I
came across a great website called GUYSREAD.com that has very good
information for any frustrated parent of a boy who struggles with reading or
who does not like to read. Please check this website out—Jon Scieszka, author of “Stinky Cheese Man,” is the
spokesperson for this initiative. Several of the books you see on this list
are recommended titles from this website.
Lolly Light/Librarian
Loveland Public Library
7/05
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