From the November 11, 2007 Pigeon Post essay of the same name.
This book list is divided into two sections:
(1) Books for Idependent Readers
(2) Books for Young Adults
The list begins below with books for Independent Readers, but you can use the following link to skip directly to books for Young Adults.
Go to books for Young Adults
Independent Reader
Young Adult
So, below are a series of boys adventures stories which tend to appeal much more to boys than to girls and which usually have many of the above mentioned traits. I omit, and it is a terrifically long list, those adventure stories which appeal to both sexes (The Chronicles of Narnia, Hatchet, etc.)What books would you suggest?
This book list is divided into two sections:
(1) Books for Idependent Readers
(2) Books for Young Adults
The list begins below with books for Independent Readers, but you can use the following link to skip directly to books for Young Adults.
Go to books for Young Adults
Independent Reader
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Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi |
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High Citadel by Desmond Bagley |
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The Vivero Letter by Desmond Bagley |
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Adrift by Steve Callahan |
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King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard |
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Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer |
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The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes |
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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling |
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing |
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
Young Adult
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The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill |
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Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell |
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Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupery |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl |
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