Welcome to Guys Read
Welcome to Guys Read, a web-based literacy program for boys. Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
Research shows that boys are having trouble reading, and that boys are getting worse at reading. No one is quite sure why. Some of the reasons are biological. Some of the reasons are sociological.
But the good news is that research also shows that boys will read — if they are given reading that interests them.
So the biggest part of this site is the collection of book titles below. These are books that guys have told us they like.
Our idea is to help guys become readers by helping them find texts they want to read.
Get in there and start looking around. There is a little something for everyone.
And please help guys out by recommending more of your guy-favorites.
The GUYS READ LIBRARY OF GREAT READING is a multi-volume set of original short stories and illustrations that will inspire boys to want to keep reading.
Each volume will feature ten of the very best writers in different genres. Each volume will serve as an introduction to writers and illustrators guys will want to know better.
The entire collection will be the answer to the question, “What will help get my guy reading?”
Listening to books is reading too.
Audiobooks let readers explore stories they might not otherwise try to read.
Audiobooks help readers pronounce words and feel the pace of storytelling.
Audiobooks offer a way to enjoy a story in a different way.
Go to Guys Listen to find (and recommend) audiobooks guys like.
October 2011
Guys Read: Thriller
Volume 2 of the GUYS READ LIBRARY OF GREAT READING
Jon Scieszka, editor
We don’t like to blow our own horn. But wouldn’t you just love to read an all-original collection of thrilling, chilling, spooky, and downright scary short stories by M.T. Anderson, Patrick Carman, Gennifer Choldenko, Matt de la Pena, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Bruce Hale, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Anthony Horowitz, Walter Dean Myers, and James Paterson . . . all illustrated by Brett Helquist?
We thought so. So we gathered them all together in Volume 2 of the ever-growing GUYS READ LIBRARY.
Happy thrilling reading.
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos
You might think you know what is going to happen in a Jack Gantos story. But you never do. Because almost anything can, and does, happen in a Jack Gantos story. Especially in this one about him growing up. It is described as both truth and fiction. Of course it is. And it is a great, exciting, funny, unexpected read. Check it out.
October is the Readingest Month
We just made that up. But it could be true because there are so many great new books that come out in the fall. This year there is a a new Diary of A Wimpy Kid book, a new Origami Yoda book, a new Brian Selznik book, a new Big Nate book . . .
So excuse us for not writing more, but we’ve got October reading to do.
Send us your recommendations for the best of the fall.
Let us know what you are liking.
Posted by Jon on Friday, October 14, 2011
