Book Clubs for Boys
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Starting Your Book Club
Guys Read Presentation
View the presentation given at ILF on Tuesday - October 20, 2009
Author Websites
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read
This website includes promotional materials and a database of recommended reads. Jon Scieszka authorizes the use of the materials in order to get guys reading, as long as you mention the GUYS READ title, logo, and text are copyright Jon Scieszka.
Michael Sullivan's Tales Told Tall
Created by the author of Connecting Boys with Books and the Escapade Johnson Series, this website has a ton of boy book recommendations and tips for getting guys reading.
Library Websites
State Library of Victoria
Boys, Books, Blokes & Bytes Program
http://getjohnnyreading.blogspot.com/
Guys Read at Beech Grove Middle School - Indiana
http://www.bgcs.k12.in.us/bgms/MEDIA/guysread.htm
Other Resources
Book Club Kits from the Indiana State Library
Reserve a set of 15 paperbacks for your book club. Various titles are available and they are open to suggestions.
Book Club 4 Boys
Website created by a mom trying to get her son, a struggling reader, reading for fun.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/23978
Additional Reading
http://www.gettingboystoread.com/content/classroom-strategies-get-boys-reading
http://mgrn.evansville.edu/2007fall2.htm
http://www.pearsoned.com/pr_2008/050908.htm
http://www.guilderlandschools.org/district/Parent_corner/BoysRead.htm
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=1543
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4649807
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/04/close-read-boys-boys-boys.html
http://www.mspmag.com/education/raisingreaders/raisingreaderssep07/74542.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35057-2005Mar14.html
Kelly, Paula. Boys, Books, Blokes and Bytes. APLIS, Jun2007, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p72-83, 12p, 12 charts, 6 graphs.
Minkel, Walter. The Big Cheese: Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. School Library Journal, v54 n2 p38-40 Feb 2008. 3 pp.
Tyre, Peg. The Trouble With Boys. Newsweek. 1/30/2006, Vol. 147 Issue 5, p44-52, 9p, 1 chart, 2 graphs, 6 color
