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BEST BOOKS FOR BOYSGrades 5-8

Polly GilbertLibrary Director & US Librarian

Cinda Thoma MS LibrarianSt. Mark’s School of Texas

September 2007gilbert@smtexas.org

thomac@smtexas.org

“A good book for a boy isone he wants to read.”

-Moloney

Selection Criteria

• High Interest for Boys• Notable Award Winners

• Student Choices• Professional Colleague

Recommendations• Currency (post 2000 publication)

• Tried and True

Best Books for Young Adults

2006 and 2007

Booklist Young Adults 12-18

2006 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

Hitler Youth:Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow

Bartoletti, Susan

2007 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

The Astonishing

Life of Octavian Nothing

Anderson, M. T.

2007 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus

2007 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

The King of Attolia

Turner, Megan Whalen

2007 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

Samurai Shortstop

Gratz, Alan

2007 Top Ten Best

Books for Young Adults

The Trap

Smelcer, John

20072006

2007 Alex Awards

Books for Young Adults

Black Swan Green

Mitchell, David

2007 Alex Awards

Books for Young Adults

The Blind Side

Lewis, Michael

2007 Alex Awards

Books for Young Adults

The Book of Lost Things

Connolly, John

2007 Alex Awards

Books for Young Adults

The Thirteenth Tale

Setterfield, Diane

2007 Alex Awards

Books for Young Adults

The Whistling Season

Doig, Ivan

2006Booklist Editors’

Choice

The Long Run

Lee Furey

2006Booklist

Editors’ ChoiceNon-Fiction

Miracle in the

Andes

Parrado, Nando

Michael L. Printz Award Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Booklist Sponsored

2007 Michael L.Printz

Award for Young Adults

American

Born

Chinese

Yang, Gene Luen

2006 Michael L. Printz

AwardHonor Book

Black Juice

Lanagan, Margo

Readers’ Choices

• Student Suggestions

• Faculty recommendations

Readers’Choices

Across theNightingale Floor

Hearn, Lian

Readers’Choices

Bad Boy:A Memoir

Myers, Walter Dean

Readers’Choices

Balzac And the

Little ChineseSeamstress

Sijie, Dai

Readers’Choices

Beatles Art

Edited by

Webb, Linda & Jeffrey

Readers’Choices

The Boy WhoFell Out of

the Sky

Dornstein, Ken

Readers’Choices

TheCity of Ember

DuPrau, Jeanne

Readers’Choices

Code Orange

Cooney, Caroline B.