HIT:fiction for boys

[Twanalm <Twanalm@AOL.COM>]

Well, while no one could help me with statistics, I did get a number of
helpful suggestions of books that could be mentioned to hte parent, so I
created a list of what I had in my library media center and gave it to the
principal so she can pursue it further with this parent if she chooses. THanks
to all who gave ideas and here is the list:
Great Books for Boys (& Great Books for Girls)
Gary Paulsen books
Matt Christopher
C.S. Lewis
JRR Tolkien
Star Wars series
Animorphs series
X-Files series
Encyclopedia Brown
Danny Dunn
James Howe
Alfred Slote
The Thief--Newbery Honor from last year
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Robert Peck (Soup books)
Charlie Skeddale by Beatty
G. Clifton Wisler
Chris Crutcher
John Christopher
The Snake Stone
Sees Behind Trees
Kenneth Thomasma
Out of Control by Mazer
Sons of Liberty
On My Honor
My Side of the Mountain
Louis Sachar
Avi
Hank the Cowdog
Judy Blume's Fudge series
Hardy Boys
Time Warp Trio by Sciesczka
Collier & Collier
Bruce Coville

Myself and another who wrote me both seemed surprised that while we assumed
that more books would be written for boys, we found in our own collections
that that wasn't teh case after all. Its closer to 50/50 and that there is a
noticeable trend the past few years to write for girls and to have more female
authors who write for that particular audience.  Interesting.

Twana Weiler
Library Media Teacher
St. Mary's Academy
Englewood CO
twanalm@aol.com

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