Guys Write for Guys Read

10 best books like Guys Write for Guys Read (Jon Scieszka): Griffin's Castle, The Sixth Grade Nickname Game, The Boy Who Saved Baseball, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography, Send Me Down a Miracle, Hostage, In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales, How Angel Peterson Got His Name, Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid, National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe

Griffin's Castle

Author	Jenny Nimmo
ISBN	0439025540

NYT bestselling author of the CHARLIE BONE series Jenny Nimmo weaves another thrilling fantasy about mysterious stone animals willed to life in this re-released edition of Griffin's Castle . . . .

Lonely and friendless from constantly moving, Dinah finds herself wishing the animal statues...

The Sixth Grade Nickname Game

Author	Gordon Korman
ISBN	0590515330

Almost everyone in Old Orchard Public School (OOPS) has had the dubious honor of receiving a nickname from best friends Jeff and Wiley. They've dubbed their own underachieving class the Dim Bulbs, their pop-eyed principal is better known as Deer in the Headlights, and their enormous football-coach-turned-teacher...

The Boy Who Saved Baseball

Author	John H. Ritter
ISBN	0142402869

Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims...

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

Author	Chris Crutcher
ISBN	0060502517

♥ i love chris crutcher ♥

if oddballs was augusten burroughs for the younger generation, chris crutcher is their david sedaris. both books are humorous essays involving childhood and family and all the tales of things that happen to shape a boy into a man, but crutcher just has better stories....

Send Me Down a Miracle

Author	Han Nolan
ISBN	0152046801

Things used to be normal in Casper, Alabama. Charity Pittman was a regular fourteen-year-old, the perfect daughter, following in her preacher father's footsteps. But then Adrienne arrived, with her big-city ways and artsy ideas. Reverend Pittman thinks she's the devil incarnate. Charity thinks...

Hostage

Author	Willo Davis Roberts
ISBN	0689844468

Perhaps I would have really enjoyed this book when if I had read it when I was younger, because according to the back it's meant for ages 8-12...and I'm not surprised. I found it lying on the radiator in the back of the classroom and picked it up, seeing as I didn't have anything else to read during advisory....

In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales

Author	David Lubar
ISBN	0765345706

Kids can be such monsters. Literally.

From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she...

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	0440229359

When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...

Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid

Author	Jerry Spinelli
ISBN	0679887911

"A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful
things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged
adolescence" (The Washington Post), Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned
his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor,...

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe

Author

Roy A. Gallant

When I was a kid, this was my astronomy go-to. Besides a treasure trove of pictures and statistics, it has a lot of the history of astrophysics written in an approachable, but still informative, way. What did Newton, Huygens, and Einstein contribute? It's all in here. All these years later, it still holds...