Share this… Again, this book was another one of those lucky finds as I wandered around in the library: a book of short stories for reluctant readers, and a book about things boys think and wonder about written just for boys (many of whom are reluctant readers). The title story, by Sean Taylor, is probably my …read more…
Posts contained in the “Short Stories” category:
My Dad’s A Punk edited by Tony Bradman
Published on: 18 June 2011 by Ken
Categorized under: Book Review, Books for Guys, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Intermediate Literature, Short Stories, Teaching Issues, YA Literature • Tagged with: Alan Gibbons, Andrew Daddo, brothers, Daniel, Daniel Weitzman, Ehrenhaft, Farrukh Dhondy, fathers, Francis McCrickard, friends, Joseph Wallace, musicians, Ron Koertge, Sean Taylor, Simon Cheshire, sons, swimming, Terence Blacker, Tim Wynne-Jones
Guys Write for Guys Read edited by Jon Scieszka
Share this… What I love about books like Guys Write is that they remind me of those assortments of little boxes of cereal: you get a little bit of everything. Like those assortments, there’s no need to read a book like this straight through, or even to read all of it. You can dip in …read more…
Published on: 7 June 2011 by Ken
Categorized under: Autobiography/Biography, Book Review, Books for Guys, Contemporary Fiction, Graphic Novel/Story, Intermediate Literature, Short Stories, YA Literature • Tagged with: advice, anthology, art, artists, baseball, basketball, boys, brothers, camping, childhood, comics, drawing, drawings, fathers, fighting, football, friends, friendship, girls, identity, initiation, injuries, masculinity, memoirs, poems, school, scouts, soccer, sons, sports, superheroes