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Books to Inspire Boys The following recommended books are organized according to the best age for reading aloud. Boys can typically read to them- selves at or below their age range. Ages 4–7 Bedtime for Frances A Chair for My Mother Cycle City Dolphin Adventure (and series) Fireboat The Great Brain Henry Huggins Henry’s Freedom Box Joshua by the Sea The Lion and the Mouse Encyclopedia Brown series Llama Red Pajama Lola Dutch The Matchlock Gun Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel The Mouse and the Motorcycle My Father’s Dragon Nate the Great series Richard Scarry’s Busytown Treasury The Sign of the Beaver Stand By, Boys (continued on the next page)
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Books to Inspire Boys
The following recommended books are organized according to the best age for reading aloud. Boys can typically read to them-selves at or below their age range.
Ages 4– 7
Bedtime for FrancesA Chair for My MotherCycle CityDolphin Adventure (and series)FireboatThe Great BrainHenry HugginsHenry’s Freedom BoxJoshua by the SeaThe Lion and the MouseEncyclopedia Brown seriesLlama Red PajamaLola DutchThe Matchlock GunMike Mulligan and His Steam ShovelThe Mouse and the MotorcycleMy Father’s DragonNate the Great seriesRichard Scarry’s Busytown TreasuryThe Sign of the BeaverStand By, Boys
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Stuart LittleThe Tortoise and the HareTwenty and Ten
Ages 8– 12
A Bear Called PaddingtonBridge to TerabithiaBud, Not BuddyCabin on Trouble CreekCarry On, Mr. BowditchThe Chronicles of Narnia series (the books further along in
the series require a bit more maturity/attention span)The Cricket in Times SquareThe Family Under the BridgeHinds Feet on High Places (children’s version)The HobbitI’m Just No Good at RhymingMighty JackFrindle (and other books by Andrew Clements)My Side of the MountainOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of DarknessRed Sails to CapriStella by StarlightSub- Marine (written by my son Josiah)The StowawayThe Tale of DespereauxThe Trumpet of the SwanWhere the Red Fern GrowsWonder
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BiographiesGladys AylwardGeorge Washington CarverJim ElliotAlan ShepardAll the biographies in the Heroes Now and Then series
Teenagers
NonfictionThe Case for ChristDo Hard Things,How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleRadicalSeven Habits of Highly Effective TeenagersLove Does
FictionA Long Way from ChicagoBen HurThe Chronicles of Narnia seriesElijah BuxtonThe HobbitLeepike RidgeThe Lord of the Rings seriesMy Side of the MountainOkay for NowThe Screwtape LettersUncle Tom’s CabinThe Wednesday Wars
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BiographiesThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBoys in the BoatThe Hiding PlaceShakenThrough Gates of SplendorUnbroken
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