Guys write for guys read
By: edited by Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780439864244
Subjects: Children's literature, American; Men; American literature; Literary collections; Male authors
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The truth about the world  -- Lloyd Alexander; title: My maturity, in flames  -- M.T. Anderson -- Daniel Adel; title: Stone=throw  -- Marc Aronson; title: Superpatriot  -- Avi; title: The crossing  -- T.A. Barron; title: Reading can be dangerous  -- Tedd Arnold; title: My entire football career  -- David Bauer; title: Only a game  -- Edward Bloor; title: Gondwanaland  -- Tony DiTerlizzi; title: E, A minor, B7  -- Bruce Brooks; title: My brilliant invention  -- William G. Brozo; title: A real guy  -- Michael Cart; title: My life of crime  -- Peter Cherches; title: Triplets  -- Timothy Basil Ering; title: The legend of Tripod  -- Eoin Colfer; title: "O" foods  -- Chris Crutcher; title: What I'm telling you is the truth  -- Terry Davis; title: The rules  -- Esquire; title: Any questions, class?  -- Matt Groening; title: Guide for guys  -- Douglas Florian; title: Why books are dangerous  -- Neil Gaiman -- Brett Helquist; title: The follower  -- Jack Gantos; title: The red fire engine  -- David Macaulay; title: There must be a mistake  -- Morris Gleitzman; title: Thwacked  -- David Granger; title: My superpowers  -- Dan Greenburg; title: My dad is better than your dad  -- Andy Griffiths -- Adam McCauley; title: Let's go to the videotape  -- Dan Gutman; title: Boys, beer, barf, and bonding  -- Bruce Hale; title: Shooting the breeze  -- Dave and Liam McKean; title: Principals and principles  -- Daniel Handler; title: A great, big, beautiful world  -- Will Hobbs; title: My French teacher tried to kill me  -- Anthony Horowitz; title: Learning how to be a boy  -- James Howe; title: Lightning man  -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka; title: A casualty of war  -- Brian Jacques; title: Wrestling with reading  -- Patrick Jones -- Dav Pilkey; title: from "on writing"  -- Stephen King; title: Pop  -- David Klass; title: Guy things  -- Gordon Korman; title: Role-playing and discovery  -- Jerry Pinkey; title: Busted  -- Erik P. Kraft; title: Copies  -- David Lubar; title: When all bicycles were black  -- Vladimir Radunsky; title: The pellet in the paint can  -- Chris Lynch; title: Unfinished business  -- John Marsden -- Sergio Ruzzier; title: Daydreams  -- Walter Dean Myers; title: Licky Dave  -- Garth Nix; title: Anything can happen  -- Kenneth Oppel; title: No, David!  -- David Shannon; title: Dead body  -- Jerry Pallotta; title: It all began with books  -- Christopher Paolini; title: from "How Angel Peterson got his name"  -- Gary Paulsen; title: The 1928 Packard  -- Richard Peck; title: Lone [star] Ranger  -- Daniel Pinkwater -- David Sheldon; title: A day at the zoo ;; title: Boys are big experts  -- Jack Prelutsky; title: "Funny you should ask" from The life of Reilly  -- Rick Relly -- Peter Si s; title: The death of a writer  -- David Rice; title: Sweet dreams  -- Steve Rushin; title: Maybe yeah, maybe nah  -- Rene  Saldan a, Jr.; title: Bufos  -- Graham Salisbury -- Lane Smith -- Brothers / -- Jon Scieszka; title: GUYfesto--who we are!  -- Darren Shan; title: The day I threw the Trivia Bowl  -- Robert Siegel; title: Bringing up 'saur subjects  -- Rick Spears; title: Roy G. Biv  -- Seymour Simon; title: The hammer and the bullet  -- Arthur Slade; title: The masque of the red death  -- William Sleator; title: Reading and relating  -- Michael W. Smith; title: The dragon in the big glommy castle  -- Mark Teague; title: Bombs, girls  -- Jerry Spinelli; title: Conduct  -- Rick Telander; title: The fire escape  -- Ned Vizzini; title: My first step to the White House  -- Chris Van Allsburg; title: Give a guy a newspaper  -- Bill Vlasic; title: Eat dirt  -- Rich Wallace; title: Training the bear  -- Will Weaver; title: Pals forever: me Bobby Fisher, and the Hardy Boys  -- Jeffrey D. Wilhelm; title: Aw, nuts!  -- Mo Willems; title: "Puzzle pieces" from The lost garden  -- Laurence Yep; title: Heartbeat  -- David Yoo; title: I was young in the old days -- Paul O. Zelinsky.