Great Books for Boys

Jumanji

By Chris Van
Allsburg

Call
#: JP Van Allsburg

Left
on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find
more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle
adventure board game.

Where
the wild things are

By Maurice Sendak

Call
#: JP Sendak

A naughty little
boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild
things where he becomes their king.

Click
clack moo: cows that type

By Doreen Cronin

Call
#: JP Cronin

When
Farmer Brown’s cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making
demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what
they want.

Diary
of a worm

By Doreen Cronin

Call
#:JP Cronin

A
young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and
some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

How
I became a pirate

By Melinda Long

Call
#: JP Long

Jeremy Jacob
joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate
language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.

Ruins
of Gorlan (Rangers Apprentice Series)

By John Flanagan

Call
#: JF Flanagan

When
fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the
reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up
protecting the kingdom from danger.

Inkheart

By Cornelia Funke

Call
#:JF Funke

Twelve-year-old
Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a
living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those
characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

City
of Ember

By Jeanne DuPrau

Call
#: JF Duprau

In
the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be
a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city,
perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Diary
of a wimpy kid

By Jeff Kinney

Call
#: JF Kinney

Greg
records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his
best friend hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular,
Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

Artemis
Fowl

By Eoin Colfer

Call
#: YF Colfer

When
a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by
capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back
with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty
troll.

Leven
Thumps and the gateway to foo

By Obert Skye

Call
#: YF Skye

When
fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven and thirteen-year-old Winter
together, they discover that for mankind to continue dreaming, the
gateway between reality and dreams needs to be found and demolished

Airborn

By Kenneth Oppel

Call
#: YF Oppel

Matt,
a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl
traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of
mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above
the Earth’s surface.

Mortal
Engines

By Philip Reeve

Call
#: YF Reeve

In
the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a
fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the
man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country,
aided by one girl and the memory of another

Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

Call
#: YF Meyer

When
seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix
to live with her father in Forks, Washington,
she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an
overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly
human.