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
The Savage by David Almond
Blue Baker is just like any other kid who recently lost his father. Except that Blue is writing a story about a savage who lives in Burgess Woods, a savage who doesn’t speak but only communicates through grunts and growls. Blue’s savage terrorizes people like Hopper, who lives to terrorize people like Blue. Despite what …read more…
Published on: 31 March 2011 by Ken
Categorized under: Book Review, Books for Guys, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Graphic Novel/Story, Intermediate Literature • Tagged with: bereavement, bullying, death, fathers, loss, love, metaphor, muteness, savage, school, school counselors, sons, writing
Brothers by Yin
In this sequel to Coolies, Shek and Wong’s younger brother Ming arrives in San Francisco from China to stay with his brothers and work in their store. Although he is admonished not to leave Chinatown, he eventually does, making his way to the local school. He meets the irrepressible Patrick, an Irish immigrant his own …read more…
Published on: 10 August 2010 by Ken
Categorized under: Asian-American, Book Review, Early Literature, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Literature, Picture Books • Tagged with: Asian-American, business, Chinese-American, Chris Soenpiet, economics, ELL, English language, illustrations, Irish-American, light, prejudice, racism, school, Yin
