Do you only read what they make you read? You have a choice. Read what you want to.
Guys who exercise their brains and some who exercise their brawn.
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. Tor, 1991.
Earth's Military leaders train children in a last ditch effort to defeat an intergalactic enemy. Is Ender Wiggins the boy genius who can save the world?
Already read it? Then have you read: Ender's Shadow ? It takes place during the same time frame as Ender's Game, but from Bean's point of view.
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow. Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1999. |
Crutcher, Chris. Ironman. Greenwillow, 1995.
Bo Brewster is training for the Ironman Triathlon. He tells a teacher off and ends up in an anger-management class run by a Japanese-American cowboy. Bo finds new challenges and some unlikely new friends.
Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk. Greenwillow, 2001.
An independent thinking high school senior starts a swim team for the school outcasts.
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain. Dutton Children's Books, c1988, c1959.
Sam Gribley is a teen from New York City who is tired of living in the city. With just a few necessities, he moves to an uninhabited piece of his great-grandfather's old farm in the Catskill Mountains. There he learns to build a fire, gather food, and make shelter in the wilderness.
Already read it? Read the continuing story:
George, Jean Craighead. Frightful's Mountain. Dutton Children's Books, 1999.
George, Jean Craighead. On the Far Side of the Mountain. Dutton Children's Books, 1990. |
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Who gives a hoot about tiny burrowing owls in Florida? Find out in this fast paced story about Roy, Beatrice, and a boy with no name.
Sachar, Louis. Holes. Dell Yearling, 2000, c1998.
One day Stanley Yelnats is walking home from school and a pair of sneakers falls from the sky and hits him on the head. The police accuse him of stealing the shoes and Stanley is sent to a juvenile reform camp. Every day, each boy must dig a hole in the desert. Does digging holes turn bad boys into good boys or is there something hidden out there?
Yumoto, Kazumi. Natsu no niwa. English The friends / Kazumi Yumoto ; translated by Cathy Hirano. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Ages 9-13.
Three 6th grade boys learn about death and friendship one summer when they spy on an old man thinking he might die any day. Japanese title means Summer Garden.
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