Books For Boys

For Ages 6-9 P ANDREAE Andreae, Giles. Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure!: On a school field trip to the museum, young Captain Flinn and his crew recover a museum treasure from a dastardly group of pirate dinosaurs. J BROWN Brown, Jeff. Stanley in Space: When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador. (Flat Stanley series) J 585.5 CHIN Chin, Jason. Redwoods: While riding the subway, a young city boy finds an abandoned book about Redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. J GN CRANE Crane, Jordan. The Clouds Above: When Simon and his cat, Jack, arrive late for school, they escape trouble by hiding on the roof. They find a strange stairway that leads them into an adventure in the sky where they meet a lonely cloud named Perch. J GN DAVIS Davis, Eleanor. Stinky: a Toon Book: Monster Stinky loves pickles and possums, but is scared of people. When a new kid enters his swamp, Stinky tries to scare him away. J GN FARSHTE Farshte. Greg. The Rise of the Toa Nuva: Part of the Bionicle series, Lego’s massive saga of cyborgs who defend a tropical island from evil, with appeal for boys ages 7-12. J GN FEIFFER Feiffer, Jules. Meanwhile: Using a "magical" word from his comic books, Raymond escapes his mother's calls into a series of dangerous adventures.

P FRAZEE Frazee, Marla. A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever: After a week of grandfather trying to involve two disinterested boys with nature through their interest in Antarctica and penguins, the boys create an Antarctic village complete with penguins made from rocks and mussel shells. Their week at “nature camp” becomes the “best week ever.” E HILL Hill, Susanna Leonard. No Sword Fighting in the House: Arthur and Lance get into trouble when they start a sword fight in their house. When they are sent outside, they decide to have a jousting tournament while riding on the backs of two local cows. P HECTOR Hector, Julian. The Little Matador: A young matador who would rather draw pictures than fight bulls finds a new way to entertain the townsfolk. E HOROWITZ Horowitz, Ruth. Breakout at the Bug Lab: When a giant cockroach named Max escapes from their mother's bug laboratory, Leo and his brother receive help from a mysterious stranger who advises them to think like a bug in order to recapture the runaway roach. P HUTCHINS Hutchins, Hazel. Mattland: Matt has moved three times and this last move is the worst of all. As he pokes the mud around his new neighborhood, sticks become a farmhouse and fuzzy seeds become sheep in pasture. Matt has built a world of his own: “Mattland.” J GN OMALLEY O'Malley, Kevin. Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery: When something lands on one of the moons of the planet Jurassica, Captain Raptor and his spaceship crew go to investigate. P SCIESZK Sciezka, Jon. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. P SCIESZK Sciezka, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales: A spoof of a number of classic fairy tales like The Real Ugly Duckling and Little Red Running Shorts. J STEWART Stewart, Shannon. Captain Jake: A boy's love of pirate treasure leads to unexpected events with Captain Kidd. J GN TEMPLE Temple, Bob. Jimmy Sniffles, a Nose for Danger: Jimmy Sniffles is allergic--to danger. A bag of diamonds is missing from the jewelry stores, and Jimmy, with his super-snotty schnozz, saves the day. E YOLEN Yolen, Jane. Commander Toad and the Intergallactic Spy: Commander Toad and the crew of Star Warts are asked to rout out Tip Toad, Space Fleet's greatest and most elusive spy. (Series)

For Ages 9-13 J BONIFAC Boniface, William. The Hero Revealed: The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy: Ordinary Boy, the only resident of Superopolis without a superpower, uncovers and foils a sinister plot to destroy the town. (The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series) J 979.403 CALABRO Calabro, Marion. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party: This book uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47. J CHATTERTON Chatterton, Martin. Bad Dog Goes Barktastic: He's the baddest dog in town. A 100% highsteppin', bone-crunchin', cat-chasin' pooch with one small problem: he has three days left on Death Row at the City Pound for Unwanted Canines. Unless . . . a secret dog spy agency asks him to be its latest super secret agent. His assignment? To discover why dogs are suddenly going bald . . . and insane. (Readers may also like Bad Dog and those Crazy Martians) J COVILLE Coville, Bruce. Aliens Ate My Homework: Rod is surprised when a miniature spaceship lands in his school science project and reveals five tiny aliens, who ask his help in apprehending an interstellar criminal. J CHRISTO Christopher, Matt. The Dog That Stole Football Plays: A boy and his psychic dog are able to steal plays from the opposing football team. (Check out other sports books by Matt Christopher) J937.7 DEEM Deem, James. Bodies from the Ash: On August 24, 79 C.E., Mt. Vesuvius erupted, and volcanic ash rained down on the 20,000 residents of Pompeii. In modern times, archaeological excavations unearthed an entire city and its people that buried under layers of volcanic ash. (Readers may also like James Deem’s: Bodies from the Bog and Bodies from the Ice) J DODER Doder, Joshua. A Dog Called Grk: When a dog follows him home, Tim tries to find its owners. He discovers that Grk's owners have been kidnapped with their ambassador parents by the evil Colonel Zinfandel and taken to a prison in Eastern Europe. Tim and Grk undertake a rescue mission in this international adventure. (Grrk & the Pelotti Gang sequel) J DEARY Deary, Terry. Pitt Street Pirates: While trying to beat their town's "golf club kids" in a treasure hunt, Captain Roger Redbeard, Sniffles the Cabin Boy, and Ellie, a band of modern-day pirates, uncover a real treasure. J GREENBU Greenburg, Dan. Secrets of Dripping Fang: The Onts: Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin have had it bad at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in the Dripping Fang Forest. (Dripping Fang series)

032 GUINNES Guinness Book of World Records: Newest copies are in the adult section. The junior section has older copies available for checkout. J HALE Hale, Bruce. Chet Gecko: This Gum for Hire: One by one, members of Emerson Hicky's football team are disappearing. As far as Chet's concerned, this is cause for celebration. But when Chet's old enemy, Herman the Gila Monster, is the prime suspect, Herman wants Chet to clear his (not quite good) name. (Chet Gecko series) YA HOLLAND Holland, Robert. Spooks: When his neighbor dies, Charlie thinks she was murdered. He enlists his old friend Pete, the starting quarterback at the high school, to help solve the mystery. Strange things begin to happen. Mobster enforcers turn up and then spooks. J355 HOLMES Holmes, Richard. Battle: This book is about the history of battle and warfare with an introduction to military science starting from ancient times to World War 1. Stunning artwork. J GN HOTTA Obata, Takeshi. Hikaru No Go Vol. 1: Descent of the Go Master: “Hiraku Shindo is like any sixthgrader in Japan until one day he finds an old bloodstained Go board in his grandfather's attic. Inside the Go board is Fujiwara- no-Sai, the ghost of an ancient Go master who taught the strategically complex board game to the Emperor of Japan many centuries ago." -- Cover. (Series) J031.02 IGGULDE Iggulden, Conn & Hal. The Dangerous Book for Boys: ”This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun--building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.” -- From publisher J MASON Mason, Paul. Camel Rider: This is an adventure for the older reader. It’s the story of survival and friendship that develops between two boys, 12-year-old Adam, an Australian expatriate who doesn’t want to return home, and Walid, a young camel rider from Bangladesh who has escaped a cruel and abusive “master.” They survive together in the harsh desert, even though they don’t speak the same language and don’t understand each other’s culture. J MCMANUS McManus, Patrick F. Never cry "Arp!": and other Great Adventures: Skunk dog -- The mountain -- Reading sign -- Kid brothers and their practical applications -- Never cry "Arp!" -- Real ponies don't go "Oink!" -- Secret places -- A really nice blizzard -- Cubs -- Muldoon in love -- Not long for this whirl -- The night the bear ate goombaw. J PITCHFO Pitchford, Dean. The Big One-Oh: Determined not to be weird all his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have to make some friends to invite.

J GN SANJO Sanjo, Riku. Beet the Vandal Buster: "The Vandal Busters are a roving band of certified monster destroyers. Beet’s biggest ambition in life is to become a Buster, what can you say about a monster hunter who can barely stand the pain when he receives the mystical brand of a 'Level 1 Vandel Buster'?" – Cover (Series) J921 SCIESZK Scieszka, Jon. Knucklehead Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner. J SCIESZK Scieszka, Jon. See You Later Gladiator: Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they are transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Coliseum. (Time Warp Trio series) J SENSEL Sensel, Joni. Reality Leak: Train noises without trains and mysterious explosions baffle the residents of South Wiggot as eleven-year-old Bryan and his friend Spot try to connect the strange happenings with the town's newest industry and its president, Mr. Keen. J SILBERB Silverberg, Alan. Pond Scum: Eleven-year-old Oliver enjoys tormenting insects, but his life takes a turn when his family moves into an old house where an assortment of animals doesn't want to vacate. J TEITLEB Teitelbaum, Michael. The Scary States of America: "50 weird and terrifying stories based on true events"--Cover. Twelve-year-old Jason Specter, self-proclaimed "clearing house for the weird," introduces and presents his favorite stories of the paranormal--one from each state of the Union-submitted to the Web site he created after his own encounter with a ghost at school three years earlier. J 614.17 TOWNSEND Townsend, John. Bone Detectives: A grim discovery -- The skeleton starts to speak -- Looking for clues -- Teeth talk -- Was it murder? -- Fitting the face -- Need to know words -- Bone detective case file --Bones online. J TRUEIT Truett, Trudi. No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay): Fearless nine-year-old "Scab" McNally tries to get his twin sister's help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever. J WALKER Walker, Kathryn. Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle: Mystery of Flight 19 – Deadly Triangle -Vanishing ships -- Ghost ships -- Vanishing planes -- What is the truth?

J WALLACE Wallace, Rich. Emergency Quarterback: When the Hornets lose their quarterback for the season and the replacement lacks the talent to take charge, the coach picks a solid receiver as emergency quarterback. (Winning Season series) J YOUNG Young Steve. 15 Minutes: Seventh-grader Casey Little is always late until he discovers a magic watch that takes him back in time, a trick he uses both on and off the football field.