Thank you for all the suggestions. My original request: I have had a
first--an eighth grade boy looking for a romance novel. I steered him to
the "girl centered" romances, but could not think of one with a boy as
the central character.
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Books:
24 Girls in 7 Days -- Alex Bradley
An Abundance of Katherines -- John Greene
Bingo Brown series -- Betsy Byers
Bucking the Sarge -- Christopher Paul Curtis
Don't call me Ishmael -- Michael Bauer
Flavor of the Week -- Tucker Shaw
Flipped -- Wendelin Van Draanen
Heavy Metal and You -- Christopher Krovatin (mild sexual content,
language warning)
Jason's Women -- Jean Davies Okimoto
The Kingdom series -- Cynthia Voigt (preview for appropriate grade
level)
Kissing Vanessa -- Simon Cheshire
Looking for Alaska -- John Greene
Number 8 -- Anna Fineberg
Razzle -- Ellen Wittlinger
Romeo and Juliet: together again at last -- Avi
Romiette and Julio -- Sharon Draper
Sleeping Freshmen Never Live-- David Lubar
A Solitary Blue -- Cynthia Voigt
Son of the Mob -- Gordon Korman
Song of the Sparrow -- Lisa Sandell
Stargirl -- Jerry Spinelli
Things Not Seen -- Andrew Clements
Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas
Thwonk -- Joan Bauer
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse -- Stephenie Meyer
Authors:
Crutcher, Chris
Sparks, Nicholas
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Ruth Ann Noe, librarian
Perryton Junior High School, grades 6-8
510 S. Eton St.
Perryton, TX 79070
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