Boys
- Author:Doctorow, E.L.Summary:
- Author:McIsaac, MeaghanSummary:
Urgle is not a good hunter; he's not good at much of anything, particularly being a big brother to Cubby. But he has no family to fall back on: Urgle and Cubby live among the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit. One by one, generations of boys...
- Author:Lebedev, SergeĭSummary:
A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The Second Jungle Book is the sequel to Rudyard Kipling's acclaimed collection of stories about the Indian jungle. These new stories were published a year after the original, and mostly focus on the same characters including Mowgli,...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
This continuation of The Jungle Book furthers the adventures of Mowgli the man-cub and his animal companions. As Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle, he matures into self-sufficiency and wisdom.
- Author:Udall, BradySummary:
When he is seven, Edgar Mint is run over by a mailman. Three months later, the half-Apache and mostly orphaned boy miraculously wakes from a coma. Thus begins an odyssey that will take young Edgar from a hospital for indigents to a...
- Author:Mahy, MargaretSummary:
A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.
- Author:Grenier, Daniel, Strauss, PabloSummary:
There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
Three young boys find a new island in the middle of a river in their home town and decide to make it into a kingdom for themselves. Over time, they develop it into a utopia and most of the town decide to join them in their utopia. Many...
- Author:Milne, ChristopherSummary:
The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him?...
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards.Should she help him?...
- Author:Greene, GrahamSummary:
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Boy O’Boy. Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother counts on.Angel SquareYoung...
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he...
- Author:Boggs, Johnny D.Summary:
On the western frontier in 1872, twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain is captured by Indians. He escapes and falls in with a Buffalo sharpshooter, and the two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain.
- Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble. But when Huck Finn appears on the scene, boyish misadventure gets taken up a...