Tales from the Seabury Library

Beyond Captain Underpants - Books for boys:

Getting boys to engaged in books is sometimes trickier than girls. We have manyf voracious boy readers at Seabury, but others are more selective. One of my sons was always reading, the other was harder to engage. A few posts ago I promised to share some suggestions from a session at my librarians' conference. These are a few of the titles they promised are tried and true successes - catagorized loosely by subject:

Horror and Gore:
Dogzilla, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey. A scary pooch terrorizes Mouseopolis. (also Kat Kong). Grades K-3. Seabury children love these.
Cirque du Freak series, by Darren Shan. Darren's Visit to a mysterious freak show leads him on a journey into a dark world of vampires and other creeps. Grades 5-8.
Phineas Gage : A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science, by John Fleischman. The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain was pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions. Grades 5-8.
Mystery:
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: A Chet Gecko Mystery, by Bruce Hale. When hired by a fellow fourth grader to find her missing brother, Chet uncovers a gila monster's plot against the football team. Grades 2-4.
Ghost Canoe, by Will Hobbs, Nathan, fishing with the Makah, holds a clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for buried Spanish treasure. Grades 5-8. Seabury Library has it.
Humor:
The Class Election from the Black Lagoon, by Mike Thaler: A chapter book version of the Black Lagoon picture book series that's super-popular with Seabury students.
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, by Kevin O'Malley: Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold. Grades K-3.
Stinky Cheese Man, by Jon Sciezka: Hilarious fairy tale satire. All grades.
Time Warp Trio: Viking and Liking It, by Jon Sciezka: Sam says the word "Thursday" one too many times next to the magic book and lands himself, Joe, and Fred in 1000 A.D. Vinland, narrowly escaping a Viking blitz. Grade 2 and up. (and other Time Warp Trio books)

A few more in the next post ...