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 and …read more…
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Guys Write for Guys Read edited by Jon Scieszka
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
Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy edited by Nancy Mercado
I don’t know how I missed this one, but I did. And I’m a bit upset about that, because there are some fine stories in here. I warmed to this book from the very beginning, because Nancy Mercado tells us …what these stories are not. They are not stories about your voice changing, learning how …read more…
Published on: 16 August 2010 by Ken
Categorized under: African-American, Book Review, Books for Guys, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, GLBTQ, Graphic Novel/Story, Intermediate Literature, Jewish-American, Multicultural Literature, YA Literature • Tagged with: absent fathers, adolescence, alcoholism, anthology, authentic, Bar Mitzvah, basketball, boys, brothers, bullies, Christmas, coming of age, courage, Craig Thompson, crime, crushes, dance, dancers, dating, David Levithan, David Lubar, drug abuse, Edward Averett, family, fathers, fear, gay, girls, graphic, guns, guys, heroes, interracial, intimidation, Jewish, Jews, masculinity, Mo Willems, mothers, New York City, Paul Acampora, pigs, platonic, prejudice, prom, puberty, punk, relationships, René Saldaña Jr., romance, Ron Koertge, rural, skateboarders, sons, stepmothers, stereotypes, Terry Trueman, urban, voice, Walter Dean Myers
