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The authors demonstrate a keen understanding of their target audience; this well-organized and easy-to-use compilation will be indispensable to engaging boy readers. - School Library Journal

<p> The authors demonstrate a keen understanding of their target audience; this well-organized and easy-to-use compilation will be indespensible to engaging boy readers. - <p>School Library Journal

The authors demonstrate a keen understanding of their target audience; this well-organized and easy-to-use compilation will be indispensible to engaging boy readers. - School Library Journal

<p> Every once in a while a book comes along that makes you wonder how you ever did your job without it. For school- and youth-services librarians, this may be just such a book. It's packed with hundreds of titles that will appeal to boys. The authors are seasoned professionals with decades of experience in the library trenches. . . . [T]his resource is highly recommended for public and school libraries--parents of boys may also be interested--so a copy for circulation should be considered. - <p>Booklist, Starred Review

The authors demonstrate a keen understanding of their target audience; this well-organized and easy-to-use compilation will be indispensable to engaging boy readers. - School Library Journal Every once in a while a book comes along that makes you wonder how you ever did your job without it. For school- and youth-services librarians, this may be just such a book. It's packed with hundreds of titles that will appeal to boys. The authors are seasoned professionals with decades of experience in the library trenches. . . . [T]his resource is highly recommended for public and school libraries-parents of boys may also be interested-so a copy for circulation should be considered. - Booklist, Starred Review It is an important and timely topic since research has shown that American boys have consistently scored worse than girls in reading tests for the past three decades. . . . Useful for readers' advisory, collection development, titles for a display, or simply as a place to turn for ideas, this book will assist all. - ARBA

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Kathleen A. Baxter is a children's literature consultant, longtime School Library Journal columnist, nationally known presenter, and a promoter for letting boys read the books that appeal to them. Marcia Agness Kochel is head librarian at The Galloway School, Atlanta, GA, and previously worked as a middle school library media specialist in Bloomington, MN.

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