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Normal View MARC View ISBD View"Boys' favorite authors write about being boys!"--Cover. Includes foreword and excerpt from Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka.
Includes bibliographical references.
Roommates / The truth about the world / My maturity, in flames / Stone=throw / Superpatriot / The crossing / Reading can be dangerous / My entire football career / Only a game / Gondwanaland / E, A minor, B7 / My brilliant invention / A real guy / My life of crime / Triplets / The legend of Tripod / "O" foods / What I'm telling you is the truth / The rules / Any questions, class? / Guide for guys / Why books are dangerous / The follower / The red fire engine / There must be a mistake / Thwacked / My superpowers / My dad is better than your dad / Let's go to the videotape / Boys, beer, barf, and bonding / Shooting the breeze / Principals and principles / A great, big, beautiful world / My French teacher tried to kill me / Learning how to be a boy / Lightning man / A casualty of war / Wrestling with reading / from "on writing" / Pop / Guy things / Role-playing and discovery / Busted / Copies / When all bicycles were black / The pellet in the paint can / Unfinished business / Daydreams / Licky Dave / Anything can happen / No, David! / Dead body / It all began with books / from "How Angel Peterson got his name" / The 1928 Packard / Lone [star] Ranger / A day at the zoo ; Boys are big experts / "Funny you should ask" from The life of Reilly / The death of a writer / Sweet dreams / Maybe yeah, maybe nah / Bufos / GUYfesto--who we are! / The day I threw the Trivia Bowl / Bringing up 'saur subjects / Roy G. Biv / The hammer and the bullet / The masque of the red death / Reading and relating / The dragon in the big glommy castle / Bombs, girls / Conduct / The fire escape / My first step to the White House / Give a guy a newspaper / Eat dirt / Training the bear / Pals forever: me Bobby Fisher, and the Hardy Boys / Aw, nuts! / "Puzzle pieces" from The lost garden / Heartbeat / I was young in the old days / Jon Scieszka -- Lloyd Alexander -- M.T. Anderson -- Daniel Adel -- Marc Aronson -- Avi -- T.A. Barron -- Tedd Arnold -- David Bauer -- Edward Bloor -- Tony DiTerlizzi -- Bruce Brooks -- William G. Brozo -- Michael Cart -- Peter Cherches -- Timothy Basil Ering -- Eoin Colfer -- Chris Crutcher -- Terry Davis -- Esquire -- Matt Groening -- Douglas Florian -- Neil Gaiman -- Brett Helquist -- Jack Gantos -- David Macaulay -- Morris Gleitzman -- David Granger -- Dan Greenburg -- Andy Griffiths -- Adam McCauley -- Dan Gutman -- Bruce Hale -- Dave and Liam McKean -- Daniel Handler -- Will Hobbs -- Anthony Horowitz -- James Howe -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka -- Brian Jacques -- Patrick Jones -- Dav Pilkey -- Stephen King -- David Klass -- Gordon Korman -- Jerry Pinkey -- Erik P. Kraft -- David Lubar -- Vladimir Radunsky -- Chris Lynch -- John Marsden -- Sergio Ruzzier -- Walter Dean Myers -- Garth Nix -- Kenneth Oppel -- David Shannon -- Jerry Pallotta -- Christopher Paolini -- Gary Paulsen -- Richard Peck -- Daniel Pinkwater -- David Sheldon -- Jack Prelutsky -- Rick Relly -- Peter Ss̕ -- David Rice -- Steve Rushin -- Ren Šaldaą, Jr. -- Graham Salisbury -- Lane Smith -- Brothers / Jon Scieszka -- Darren Shan -- Robert Siegel -- Rick Spears -- Seymour Simon -- Arthur Slade -- William Sleator -- Michael W. Smith -- Mark Teague -- Jerry Spinelli -- Rick Telander -- Ned Vizzini -- Chris Van Allsburg -- Bill Vlasic -- Rich Wallace -- Will Weaver -- Jeffrey D. Wilhelm -- Mo Willems -- Laurence Yep -- David Yoo -- Paul O. Zelinsky.
There's something for every guy in this collection of stories, mini-memoirs, advice, poems, comics and drawings chosen by readers on the Guys Read web site.
9780670011445 (pbk.) 0670011444 (pbk.)
Men--Literary collections.
American literature--Male authors.
Children's literature, American.
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