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Good Books for Younger Boys
Booklists for Kids


Avi.
THE HISTORY OF HELPLESS HARRY: To Which Is Added a Variety of Amusing and Entertaining Adventures.

Patrick Skene Catling.
THE CHOCOLATE TOUCH.

Roald Dahl.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

Sid Fleischman.
THE WHIPPING BOY,
and other titles.

John Reynolds Gardiner.
STONE FOX.

Jamie Gilson.
THIRTEEN WAYS TO SINK A SUB.

Patricia Hermes.
KEVIN CORBETT EATS FLIES.

Kevin Henkes.
TWO UNDER PAR.

Dick King-Smith.
BABE: THE GALLANT PIG.

Christine McDonnell.
IT’S A DEAL, DOGBOY.

Marie McSwigan.
SNOW TREASURE.

Claudia Mills.
LOSERS, INC.

Barbara Park.
DEAR GOD, HELP! LOVE, EARL.

P.J. Petersen.
THE FIREPLUG IS FIRST BASE.

Daniel Manus Pinkwater.
THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN EMERGENCY.

Robert Kimmel Smith.
THE SQUEAKY WHEEL.

Gary Soto.
BOYS AT WORK.

Betty Ren Wright.
THE GHOST IN ROOM 11.


Compiled by Anne Kelly, West Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library, 1999.