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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 [email protected]
“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.