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Recommended titles for boys
in grades four and up

Fiction titles (J) are located alphabetically by the author's last name.
 

Awesome Adventures
A Dog’s Life: An Autobiography of a Stray  by Ann Martin  (J)
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett  (J)
Far North by Will Hobbs  (J)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen  (J)
Holes by Louis Sachar  (J)
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (J)
Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond (J)
The Lamp From The Warlock’s Tomb by John Bellairs (J)
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce  (J COT)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George  (J)
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel  (J)
Smugglers by Iain Lawrence  (J)
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (J)
The Thief Lord  by Cornelia Funke (J)
The White Mountains by John Christopher (J)
Wreckers by Iain Lawrence  (J)


Could this be you?
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
by Stephen Manes  (J)
The Birthday Room
by Kevin Henkes (J)
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
by John H. Ritter (J)
Flush by Carl Hiaasen  (J)
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (J)
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos (J)
Junebug by Alice Mead (J)
The Rifle by Gary Paulsen  (J) 
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J)
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (J)
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee (J)
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt  (J)
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli  (J)
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick  (J)


Other Times, Other Places
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix (J)
The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac (J)
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (J)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (J)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (J)
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (J)
Dave at Night  by Gail Carson Levine  (J)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (J)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (J)
A Long Way From Chicago: a Novel in Stories by Richard Peck (J)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (J)
Redwall by Brian Jacques (J)
Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev  (J)
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep (J)
Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris (J)
A Single Shard  by Linda Sue Park  (J)
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury (J)


Amazing AND True Non-fiction books
An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy  (J 614.5 MUR)
A City Through Time by Philip Steele             (J 307.76 STE)
Exploring Our Solar System by Sally Ride     (J 523.2 RID)
Football: A History of the Gridiron Game by Mark Stewart  (J 796.332 STE )
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (J 977.3 MUR)
Guys Write for Guys Read edited by  Jon Scieszka ( J 810.8 GUY)
Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives by Jeanette Farrell (J 579 FAR)
Mosque by David Macaulay  (J 726 MAC)
Photo by Brady: a Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong (J 973.7 ARM)
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by    Phillip Hoose  (J 598.72 HOO)
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley  by Sally Walker  (J 973.7 WAL)
The Way Science Works by Robin Kerrod      (J 500 KER)


Good for a Laugh: Funny Books
The Absolutely True Story...How I Visited  Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes by Willo Davis Roberts  (J)
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (J)
Frindle by Andrew Clements  (J)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or, Pirates Galore by Sid Fleischman  (J)
Harry the Poisonous Centipede’s Big Adventure by Lynn Reid Banks (J)
Hoboken Chicken Emergency  by Daniel Pinkwater  (J)
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey (J)
How To Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your Class) by Jay Leno ( J 808.6 LENO)
Invasion of the Road Weenies by  David Lubar (J)
I Was a Rat  by Philip Pullman (J)
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky  (J 811 PRE )
Three Rotten Eggs by Gregory Maguire (J)
 

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