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Title Guys write for guys read / [selected by] Jon Scieszka.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2008.
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 810.809286 Sciesz Guy 2008    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
age Children
Summary Short stories, anecdotes, cartoons, and columns are compiled by such authors as Stephen King and Gordon Korman, who share the comical, sad, and strange memories of their life as boys and the impact those moments had in their later lives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Roommates / Jon Scieszka -- Truth about the world / Lloyd Alexander -- My maturity, in flames / M.T. Anderson -- Daniel Adel -- Stone=throw / Marc Aronson -- Superpatriot / Avi -- Crossing / T.A. Barron -- Reading can be dangerous / Tedd Arnold -- My entire football career / David Bauer -- Only a game / Edward Bloor -- Gondwanaland / Tony DiTerlizzi -- E, A minor, B7 / Bruce Brooks -- My brilliant invention / William G. Brozo -- A real guy / Michael Cart -- My life of crime / Peter Cherches -- Triplets / Timothy Basil Ering -- Legend of Tripod / Eoin Colfer -- "O" foods / Chris Crutcher -- What I'm telling you is the truth / Terry Davis -- Rules / Esquire -- Any questions, class? / Matt Groening -- Guide for guys / Douglas Florian -- Why books are dangerous / Neil Gaiman -- Brett Helquist -- Follower / Jack Gantos -- Red fire engine / David Macaulay -- There must be a mistake / Morris Gleitzman -- Thwacked / David Granger -- My superpowers / Dan Greenburg -- My dad is better than your dad / Andy Griffiths -- Adam McCauley -- Let's go to the videotape / Dan Gutman -- Boys, beer, barf, and bonding / Bruce Hale -- Shooting the breeze / Dave and Liam McKean -- Principals and principles / Daniel Handler -- A great, big, beautiful world / Will Hobbs -- My French teacher tried to kill me / Anthony Horowitz -- Learning how to be a boy / James Howe -- Lightning man / Jarrett J. Krosoczka -- A casualty of war / Brian Jacques -- Wrestling with reading / Patrick Jones -- Dav Pilkey -- from "on writing" / Stephen King -- Pop / David Klass -- Guy things / Gordon Korman -- Role-playing and discovery / Jerry Pinkey -- Busted / Erik P. Kraft -- Copies / David Lubar -- When all bicycles were black / Vladimir Radunsky -- Pellet in the paint can / Chris Lynch -- Unfinished business / John Marsden -- Sergio Ruzzier -- Daydreams / Walter Dean Myers -- Licky Dave / Garth Nix -- Anything can happen / Kenneth Oppel -- No, David! / David Shannon -- Dead body / Jerry Pallotta -- It all began with books / Christopher Paolini -- from "How Angel Peterson got his name" / Gary Paulsen -- The 1928 Packard / Richard Peck -- Lone [star] Ranger / Daniel Pinkwater -- David Sheldon -- A day at the zoo ; Boys are big experts / Jack Prelutsky -- "Funny you should ask" from The life of Reilly / Rick Relly -- Peter Sís -- Death of a writer / David Rice -- Sweet dreams / Steve Rushin -- Maybe yeah, maybe nah / René Saldaña, Jr. -- Bufos / Graham Salisbury -- Lane Smith -- Brothers / Jon Scieszka -- GUYfesto -- who we are! / Darren Shan -- Day I threw the Trivia Bowl / Robert Siegel -- Bringing up 'saur subjects / Rick Spears -- Roy G. Biv / Seymour Simon -- Hammer and the bullet / Arthur Slade -- Masque of the red death / William Sleator -- Reading and relating / Michael W. Smith -- Dragon in the big glommy castle / Mark Teague -- Bombs, girls / Jerry Spinelli -- Conduct / Rick Telander -- Fire escape / Ned Vizzini -- My first step to the White House / Chris Van Allsburg -- Give a guy a newspaper / Bill Vlasic -- Eat dirt / Rich Wallace -- Training the bear / Will Weaver -- Pals forever: me Bobby Fisher, and the Hardy Boys / Jeffrey D. Wilhelm -- Aw, nuts! / Mo Willems -- "Puzzle pieces" from The lost garden / Laurence Yep -- Heartbeat / David Yoo -- I was young in the old days / Paul O. Zelinsky.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Men -- Literary collections -- Juvenile literature.
Men.
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Subject American literature -- Male authors -- Juvenile literature.
American literature -- Male authors.
American literature.
Children's literature, American.
Children's literature, American.
Men -- Literary collections.
American literature -- Male authors.
American literature.
Genre/Form Collections.
Juvenile works.
Subject Men.
Genre/Form Literature.
Literature.
Added Author Scieszka, Jon.
ISBN 0670011444 (paperback)
0670060070 (hardcover)
9780670060078 (hardcover)
9780670011445