Book
Guys write for Guys Read
Record details
- ISBN: 0670060070 (hardcover) : $16.99
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Physical Description:
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2005.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The truth about the world / Lloyd Alexander -- My maturity, in flames / M.T. Anderson -- Daniel Adel -- Stone=throw / Marc Aronson -- Superpatriot / Avi -- The crossing / T.A. Barron -- Reading can be dangerous / Tedd Arnold -- My entire football career / David Bauer -- Only a game / Edward Bloor -- Gondwanaland / Tony DiTerlizzi -- E, A minor, B7 / Bruce Brooks -- My brilliant invention / William G. Brozo -- A real guy / Michael Cart -- My life of crime / Peter Cherches -- Triplets / Timothy Basil Ering -- The legend of Tripod / Eoin Colfer -- "O" foods / Chris Crutcher -- What I'm telling you is the truth / Terry Davis -- The rules / Esquire -- Any questions, class? / Matt Groening -- Guide for guys / Douglas Florian -- Why books are dangerous / Neil Gaiman -- Brett Helquist -- The follower / Jack Gantos -- The red fire engine / David Macaulay -- There must be a mistake / Morris Gleitzman -- Thwacked / David Granger -- My superpowers / Dan Greenburg -- My dad is better than your dad / Andy Griffiths -- Adam McCauley -- Let's go to the videotape / Dan Gutman -- Boys, beer, barf, and bonding / Bruce Hale -- Shooting the breeze / Dave and Liam McKean -- Principals and principles / Daniel Handler -- A great, big, beautiful world / Will Hobbs -- My French teacher tried to kill me / Anthony Horowitz -- Learning how to be a boy / James Howe -- Lightning man / Jarrett J. Krosoczka -- A casualty of war / Brian Jacques -- Wrestling with reading / Patrick Jones -- Dav Pilkey -- from "on writing" / Stephen King -- Pop / David Klass -- Guy things / Gordon Korman -- Role-playing and discovery / Jerry Pinkey -- Busted / Erik P. Kraft -- Copies / David Lubar -- When all bicycles were black / Vladimir Radunsky -- The pellet in the paint can / Chris Lynch -- Unfinished business / John Marsden -- Sergio Ruzzier -- Daydreams / Walter Dean Myers -- Lucky Dave / Garth Nix -- Anything can happen / Kenneth Oppel -- No, David! / David Shannon -- Dead body / Jerry Pallotta -- It all began with books / Christopher Paolini -- from "How Angel Peterson got his name" / Gary Paulsen -- The 1928 Packard / Richard Peck -- Lone [star] Ranger / Daniel Pinkwater -- David Sheldon -- A day at the zoo ; Boys are big experts / Jack Prelutsky -- "Funny you should ask" from The life of Reilly / Rick Relly -- Peter Sís -- The death of a writer / David Rice -- Sweet dreams / Steve Rushin -- Maybe yeah, maybe nah / René Saldaña, Jr. -- Bufos / Graham Salisbury -- Lane Smith -- Brothers / Jon Scieszka -- GUYfesto--who we are! / Darren Shan -- The day I threw the Trivia Bowl / Robert Siegel -- Bringing up 'saur subjects / Rick Spears -- Roy G. Biv / Seymour Simon -- The hammer and the bullet / Arthur Slade -- The masque of the red death / William Sleator -- Reading and relating / Michael W. Smith -- The dragon in the big glommy castle / Mark Teague -- Bombs, girls / Jerry Spinelli -- Conduct / Rick Telander -- The fire escape / Ned Vizzini -- My first step to the White House / Chris Van Allsburg -- Give a guy a newspaper / Bill Vlasic -- Eat dirt / Rich Wallace -- Training the bear / Will Weaver -- Pals forever: me Bobby Fisher, and the Hardy Boys / Jeffrey D. Wilhelm -- Aw, nuts! / Mo Willems -- "Puzzle pieces" from The lost garden / Laurence Yep -- Heartbeat / David Yoo -- I was young in the old days / Paul O. Zelinsky. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 11 up. |
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| Subject: | Children's literature, American American literature Male authors Men Literary collections |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | J 810.9896 Guys (Text) | 33126011787425 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2005 April
Gr 5-9-Scieszka has put together a diverse and fast-paced anthology of scribblings and stories that deserves a permanent place in any collection serving middle graders. The book features brief contributions from scores of heavyweight authors and illustrators like Walter Dean Myers, Dan Gutman, Chris Crutcher, Avi, Brian Jacques, Dav Pilkey, Stephen King, Daniel Pinkwater, Jerry Spinelli, Will Hobbs, Chris Van Allsburg, Laurence Yep, and frequent collaborator Lane Smith. If there's one overarching theme here, it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be." Several other themes reappear in multiple selections. Among them are the importance of fathers, what it is to become a "real" man, how childhood reading predicted and shaped an author's future, adventures and misadventures in sports, why it's okay to be a "guy's guy," and, conversely, never being a "guy's guy" and finding out that that's okay, too. Boys who are constantly doodling-even when they're not supposed to-will be particularly inspired by contributions from successful illustrators like Tony DiTerlizzi, Timothy Basil Ering, and Brett Helquist, who've dug up their old, shaky drawings from parents' attics to show boys just what they were creating when they were kids. While the anthology arguably contains not one single masterpiece, there's something undeniably grand about this collective celebration of the intellectual life of the common boy.-Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.