Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Books for Guys Recommended by Scouting Magazine

Books for Guys Recommended by Scouting Magazine

**Young Guys**
The stupids, Harry Allard illustrated by James Marshall
The Maestro Plays, Bill Martin and Vladimir Radunsky

**Middle Guy s**
The baseball card adventure series, Dan Gutman
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, edited by Alvin Schwartz
October Sky, Homer Hickam
Gary Paulson Hatchet Series
Artemis Fowl books, Eoin Colfer
Alex Rider books, Anthony Horowitz
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

**Older Guys**
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
Oddballs, William Sleator
Tomorrow, When the War Began, John Marsden
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
White Fang; Sea Wolf, Jack London




Books Standards

Good Books



My concerns, are books:
1) broken or whole, (broken books portray good as evil and evil as good)
2) full of overly detailed romance, violence, swearing, or just action, a bit of romance and clean language,
3 )have moral standards or portray immorality as acceptable?