RE-PRINT from Mazenglish blog - 2012
As the school year winds down, and I take a break from to the task of teaching and molding teenagers - especially boys - I am thinking about books that are great reads for and about teenage boys. Teaching honors English for freshman, I always begin the year with John Knowles A Separate Peace, followed immediately by William Golding's Lord of the Flies. These classics always generate engaging discussions - if not always stimulating teen boys for reading. The adolescent boy is a fascinating creature, and they are always worthy of research and study. And, from all we know, it's amazing the human race has survived considering all the great men of the world had to be adolescent boys at some point.
The following is a list of great books about the adolescent male - the "teenage boy." They are not always preferred by teen boys, but they are great reflections of that creature and subculture.
Contemporary Fiction
Carter Finally Gets It - Brent Crawford
Paper Towns - John Green
Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green (OK really anything by JG)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Spanking Shakespeare - Jake Wizner
King Dork - Frank Portman
Like We Care - Tom Matthews
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Stotan - Cris Crutcher (and anything else by Crutcher)
Vision Quest - Terry Davis
Swim the Fly - Don Calame
The Last Algonquin - Theodore Kazimeroff
Education of Little Tree - Forrest Carter
Classic Literature
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
1 comment:
Suggestion, non-fiction, but good for young men. Carnegie, "How to win friends and influence people," and "How to stop worrying and start living."
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