Books for Boys Ages 2-5 (Located in Easy section by author’s name)

The Stupids by Harry Allard

Trains and Machines at Work by Byron Barton

I Drive a  . . .  books by Sarah Bridges

This . . .  books by Paul Collicutt

Freight Train by Donald Crews

Ted by Tony DiTerlizzi

Go, Dog, Go! by Philip Eastman

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford

Dinosaur Bob books by William Joyce 

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester

How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long

George and Martha books by James Marshall

Skippyjon Jones by Judith Schachner

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka

Dr. Seuss books by Dr. Seuss

David books by Dave Shannon

Fire Truck by Peter Sis

Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague

Black Lagoon books by Mike Thaler

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

I Spy books by Walter Wick

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

How Do Dinosaurs? books by Jane Yolen

is a literacy program for boys started by author and former elementary school teacher Jon Scieszka.  He started it partly because boys as a group score lower on reading and writing on standardized tests than girls.

Books for Boys Ages 9-12 (Located in Juvenile Fiction (J FIC) by author’s name)

Skellig  by David Almond 

Frindle  by Andrew Clements 

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Joey Pigza books by Jack Gantos 

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Lemonade Trick  by Scott Corbett

The Baseball Card Adventure Series by Dan Gutman

Silverwing; Sunwing; Firewing by Kenneth Oppel

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
J 398.25 SCHWA (in children’s nonfiction)

Big Bugs by Seymour Simon
J 595.7 SIMON (in children’s nonfiction)

Pyramid by David Macaulay
J 690 MACAU (in children’s nonfiction)

The Top of the World by Steve Jenkins
J 796.522 JENKI (in children’s nonfiction)

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
J 811.54 SILVE (in children’s nonfiction)

Books for Boys Ages 6-8 (Some located in Easy section and some located in Juvenile Fiction section by author’s name)

Fly Guy books by Tedd Arnold (E ARNOL)

Flat Stanley  by Jeff Brown (J FIC BROWN)

Arthur books by Marc Brown (E BROWN)

Biscuit books by Alyssa Capucilli (E CAPUC)

Tales From the House of Bunnicula by James Howe (J FIC HOWE)

Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant (E RYLAN)

Nate the Great books by Marjorie Sharmat (E SHARM)

Encyclopedia Brown books by Donald Sobol (J FIC SOBOL)

Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel (E LOBEL)

Magic Tree House books by Mary Osborne (J FIC OSBOR)

Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey (J FIC PILKE)

Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine (J FIC STINE)

Take a look at our comic books and nonfiction books in the children’s room, too.

Shhhh . . . Don’t tell the guys, but girls like these books too!