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Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys


Guys Read

School year: Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

No. of pages 272

Published: 2008

Great for age 7-13 years

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This fast-paced, high-energy collection of short works features today's most popular writers and illustrators writing about what it means to be a guy. Contributors include Chris Crutcher, Stephen King, Matt Groening, Daniel Pinkwater, Neil Gaiman, and many more. Includes an all-new foreword by Jon Scieszka and an excerpt from Knucklehead.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Guys Read .

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2008 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man . He is also the founder of guysread. com and a champion force behind guyslisten. com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

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Guys Read

Scieszka has put together a diverse and fast-paced anthology of scribblings and stories that deserves a permanent place in any collection serving middle graders. The book features brief contributions from scores of heavyweight authors and illustrators....[T]here's something undeniably grand about this collective celebration of the intellectual life of the common boy. --School Library Journal, starred review