title: Great Books for Boys: More Than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14
author:  Kathleen Odean 
description: One of the things that many boys give up on their way to manhood is a love of reading," states Odean in her introduction. This thoughtfully compiled annotated bibliography gives parents, teachers, and librarians strategies to help prevent this loss. Titles are organized by reader age and genre. Each entry provides a bibliographic citation, suggested age range, and brief annotation. Readers of Odean's Great Books for Girls (Ballantine, 1997) will note that a different sociological agenda underlies Great Books for Boys. While the former focused exclusively on titles with assertive, active female characters, this one includes those with strong protagonists of both sexes, as well as nonfiction. Odean urges adults to provide boys with literature that reflects the widest possible range of emotions and experiences, from swashbuckling adventure to peaceful daydreaming. A list of magazines for young readers acknowledges the importance of nonbook reading material. Graphic novels and comic books are not included. An excellent resource.AConstance Vidor, The Cathedral School of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City<BR>Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: New Medal Library No. 503 
  15 CENTS 
  Dick Merriwell's 
  Western Mission 
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  L . S t a n d 
  i s h 
  S T R E E T 
  & SMITH 
  - P U B L I S H E R S 
  - 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  
  Excellent 
  Books of 
  Generous 
  Length 
  THE NEW MEDAL LIBRARY 
  Issued E v e r y 
  Week 
  This is a line of books for boys that is of peculiar excellence. 
  There is not a title in it that would not readily sell big if published 
  in cloth bound edition at $1.00. 
  One of the best features about 
  these books, is that they are all of the highest moral tone, contain-
  ing nothing that could be objectionable to the most particular 
  parents. 
  Next in importance, comes interest, with which every-
  one of these books fairly teems. 
  No more vigorous or better litera-
  ture for boys has ever been published. 
  New titles by high-priced 
  authors are constantly being added, making it more and more im-
  possible for any publisher to imitate this line. 
  ALL TITLES ALWAYS IN 
  PRINT 
  150—Frank Merriwell's School Days 
  *.By Burt L. Standish 
  : 167—F