Transcript BEST BOOKS FOR BOYS Grades 5-7or 8

BEST BOOKS FOR BOYS
Grades 5-8
Polly Gilbert
Library Director & US Librarian
Cinda Thoma MS Librarian
St. Mark’s School of Texas
September 2007
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“A good book for a boy is
one 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
2007
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
2006
Booklist Editors’
Choice
The Long Run
Lee Furey
2006
Booklist
Editors’ Choice
Non-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
Award
Honor Book
Black
Juice
Lanagan, Margo
Readers’
Choices
• Student Suggestions
• Faculty
recommendations
Readers’
Choices
Across the
Nightingale Floor
Hearn, Lian
Readers’
Choices
Bad Boy:
A Memoir
Myers, Walter Dean
Readers’
Choices
Balzac
And the
Little Chinese
Seamstress
Sijie, Dai
Readers’
Choices
Beatles Art
Edited by
Webb, Linda & Jeffrey
Readers’
Choices
The Boy Who
Fell Out of
the Sky
Dornstein, Ken
Readers’
Choices
The
City of Ember
DuPrau, Jeanne
Readers’
Choices
Code Orange
Cooney, Caroline B.
Readers’
Choices
Crossing the
Wire
Hobbs, Will
Readers’
Choices
The
Dangerous Book
for Boys
Iggulden, Conn
Iggulden, Hal
Readers’
Choices
Duty:
A Father, His
Son, and the
Man Who Won
the War
Greene, Bob
Readers’
Choices
Emperor
The Gates of Rome
Iggulden, Conn
Readers’
Choice
Essential
Manners
For Men
Post, Peter
Readers’
Choices
Eldest
Paolini, Christopher
Readers’
Choices
Feed
Anderson, M. T.
Readers’
Choices
Fighting
Ruben Wolfe
Zusak, Marcus
Readers’
Choices
Friday Night Lights
Bissinger, H. G.
Readers’
Choices
The House
Of the
Scorpion
Farmer, Nancy
Readers’
Choice
How
To Be A
Gentleman
Bridges, John
Readers’
Choices
The
Human Body
Book
Parker, Steve
Readers’
Choices
Immersed
In
Verse
Wolf, Allan
Readers’
Choices
It’s Not About
The Bike
Armstrong, Lance
Readers’
Choices
The Kite Runner
Audio Version
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Hossein, Khaled
Readers’
Choices
The Life of Pi
Audio Version
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Martel, Yann
Readers’
Choices
Maximum
Ride
Patterson, James
Readers’
Choices
Noughts
and
Crosses
Blackman, Malorie
Readers’
Choices
The Road
McCarthy, Cormac
Readers’
Choices
Shadow Divers
Kurson, Robert
Readers’
Choices
Social Graces
Town &Country
Edited by Jim Brosseau
Readers’
Choices
Whale Talk
Crutcher, Chris
TRIED AND TRUE!
Readers’
Choice
All the
Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Cormac
Tried and True!
Angela’s Ashes
Audio Version
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McCourt, Frank
Tried and True!
Beau Geste
Wren, Percival Christopher
Tried and True!
The Count
of
Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexander
Tried and True!
The Killer Angels
Shaara, Michael
Tried and True!
MAUS
Spiegelman, Art
Tried and True!
Old School
Wolff, Tobias
Tried and True!
The Power of One
Courtenay, Bryce
Tried and True!
Quo
Vadis
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Tried and True!
The Robe
Douglas, Lloyd C.
Tried and True!
The
Silver Chalice
Costain, Thomas B.
Tried and True!
A Soldier
of the
Great War
Helprin, Mark
Books
in a Series
Douglas Adams
• Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory
manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations,
comic book and bath towel.
• Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the
world.
• He was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife
and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he
died suddenly on May 11, 2001.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy
TERRY BROOKS
• A writer since high school.
• He published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara in 1977. It
became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York
Times Trade Paperback Bestseller list, where it remained for
five months.
• His novels, Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word
were selected as two of the best science fiction/fantasy novels
of the twentieth century.
• He has published thirteen consecutive bestselling novels since.
• A practicing attorney for many years, he now writes full-time.
Terry Brooks
The Sword of Shannara
THUS BEGAN THE SEEMINGLY HOPELESS QUEST OF A SIMPLE MAN AGAINST
THE GREATEST POWER OF EVIL THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN.
Terry Brooks:
The Heritage of Shannara
Orson Scott Card
• One of the “coolest” Sci-Fi wirters of the 1980’s.
• He won the Hugo and Nebula awards Ender’s Game and
its sequel, Speaker for the Dead, two years in a row, in
1986 and 1987.
• Born in Richland, Washington, Card grew up in California,
Arizona, and Utah.
• He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary
for the Mormon Church.
• He currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• He and his wife, Kristine, are the parents of five children:
Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa
(named for Chaucer, Bronte and Dickinson, Dickens,
Mitchell, and Alcott, respectively).
Orson Scott Card:
Ender Wiggin
• “Ender Wiggin is a very bright young
boy with a powerful skill…”
John Christopher
• John Christopher" is a pseudonym for Samuel Youd, a prolific
author whose full bibliography runs to around 70 novels under
seven different names.
• As a student he was devoted to Science Fiction and published
a magazine in his teens, “Fantast.”
• He admired Aldous Huxley and Arthur Clarke.
• In 1966, a publisher suggested he try writing Sci-fi for children.
In 1967 he published the first tripod trilogy, The White
Moutains.
• The BBC series, The Tripods, was one of the longest
adaptations on British television.
• He lives in Rye, England.
John Christopher -
The Tripods Trilogy
“Three evil beings, called Tripods,
will change life on this planet forever. “
Eoin Colfer
• Eoin Colfer followed his parents into teaching and soon
began to invent stories for his pupils.
• His first novel, BENNY AND OMER, was a bestseller in
Ireland.
• ARTEMIS FOWL, was written after a day's teaching and
after his young son's bedtime.
• Eoin lives in Wexford, Ireland.
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer describes
Artemis Fowl as
“Die Hard with fairies.”
Bernard Cornwell
• The author of the acclaimed –
•Richard Sharpe series, set during the
Napoleonic Wars;
•the Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles,
about American Civil War;
•the Warlord Trilogy,
•about Arthurian England; and,
•Stonehenge 2000 B.C.:
•Raised in Britain, Cornwell now lives with
his wife on Cape Cod.
Bernard Cornwell
• The Sharp Novels
• Nathaniel Starbuck
Chronicles
Bernard Cornwell
• The
• The Saxon Chronicles Warlord Chronicles
Stephen Donaldson
• Stephen Donaldson was born in 1947, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• From the age of three until he was sixteen he lived in India,
• where his father worked as an orthopedic surgeon.
• It was after hearing one of his father's speeches on leprosy
• that he conceived the character of Thomas Covenant.
• He lives in New Mexico.
The Chronicles of
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their
search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation
of the Land,
but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the
quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure....
Anthony Horowitz
• Anthony Horowitz was born in North London in 1955.
• He decided he wanted to be a writer at the age of eight and
had his first book, Enter Frederick K Bower, when he was
23.
• He has written lots and lots of television programs, mostly
about murder!
• He created the detective dramas Midsummer Murders and
Murder in Mind, and he's also written episodes for Poirot
and Murder Most Horrid.
Alex Rider Series
- a must-have for fans of adventure/mystery series…
Erin Hunter
• Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a
fascination with the ferocity of the natural world.
• As well as having a great respect for nature in all
its forms. Erin enjoys creating rich mythical
explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her
interest in astrology and standing stones.
Darkness, air, water, and
sky will come together…
and shake the forests
to its roots!
Warriors
Series
Brian Jacques
• Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool in 1939.
• He left school at age fifteen and found work as a
docker, a truck driver, a policeman and a standup comic, all before turning his attention to
writing.
• He wrote his first novel, Redwall, for the children
at a school for the blind in Liverpool.
• His books have won international awards and
acclaim and have been made into a TV series.
Redwall series
Forthcoming October 2007
Forthcoming…….October
2007
Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in
Charleston, South Carolina, where he now
lives with his wife, Harriet, in a house built in
1797.
He taught himself to read when he was four
with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older
brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and
Jules Verne by five.
He is a graduate of The Citadel, with a degree
in physics.
He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S.
Army; among his decorations are the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star
with "V", and two Vietnamese Crosses of
Gallantry.
He enjoys the outdoor sports of hunting,
fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of
poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.
He has been writing since 1977 and intends to
continue until they nail shut his coffin.
The Wheel of Time Series
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass.
What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under
the shadow.
Let the dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Philip Kerr
• photo available on www.pbkerr.com
• Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956,
and lives in London.
• Published his first novel, March Violets, in
1989.
• He has written more than 13 books.
• Latest novel, One Small Step, published
August 2007.
Bernhard Gunther Series
Gordan Korman
• Gordon Korman is a Canadian author, of
novels for children and young adults.
• Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec.
• He published his first book at the age of
fourteen.
• He currently lives in New York City, with
his wife and three children.
KIDNAPPED SERIES
• Where is Meg Falconer?
Anne McCaffrey
• Anne McCaffrey was educated at
Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, and
has a degree cum laude in Slavonic
Languages and Literature.
• She now lives in Ireland and enjoys
riding, cooking and knitting.
• She is a past winner of both the Hugo
and Nebula Awards, and has written
many novels, short stories and
novellas, and various articles.
•
Her most celebrated series is the
world-famous Dragonriders of Pern
saga.
Dragonriders of Pern Saga
January 2008
Patrick O’Brian
• Wrote the highly respected AubreyMaturin series.
• Patrick O'Brian's many books include
acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso
and Sir Joseph Banks
• He passed away in January 2000 at the
age of 85.
AUBREY – MATURIN SERIES
THE
FINAL,
UNFINISHED
VOYAGE
OF
JACK
AUBREY
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Christopher
Paolini
• Christopher Paolini's abiding love of
fantasy and science fiction inspired him to
begin writing his debut novel, Eragon,
when he graduated from high school at 15.
• He lives with his family in Paradise Valley,
Montana.
ARAGON/ELDEST
James Patterson
• James Patterson is a master of suspense
and author of many books.
• He is one of the top-selling writers of all
time.
• He lives in New York and Florida
MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES
J. K. Rowling
• About J K Rowling
• Legend has it that J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother
when she wrote the beginning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone, on scraps of paper at a local cafe. But her efforts soon paid
off, as she received an unprecedented award from the Scottish Arts
Council enabling her to finish the book. Since then, the debut novel
has become an international phenomenon, garnering rave reviews
and major awards, including the British Book Awards Chidren's
Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize.
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• Interactive book and
research discussions
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