Guys write for guys read /

There's something for every guy in this collection of stories, mini-memoirs, advice, poems, comics and drawings chosen by readers on the Guys Read web site.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Scieszka, Jon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2005.
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The truth about the world / Lloyd Alexander
  • My maturity, in flames / M.T. Anderson
  • Daniel Adel
  • Stone=throw / Marc Aronson
  • Superpatriot / Avi
  • The crossing / T.A. Barron
  • Reading can be dangerous / Tedd Arnold
  • My entire football career / David Bauer
  • Only a game / Edward Bloor
  • Gondwanaland / Tony DiTerlizzi
  • E, A minor, B7 / Bruce Brooks
  • My brilliant invention / William G. Brozo
  • A real guy / Michael Cart
  • My life of crime / Peter Cherches
  • Triplets / Timothy Basil Ering
  • The legend of Tripod / Eoin Colfer
  • "O" foods / Chris Crutcher
  • What I'm telling you is the truth / Terry Davis
  • The rules / Esquire
  • Any questions, class? / Matt Groening
  • Guide for guys / Douglas Florian
  • Why books are dangerous / Neil Gaiman
  • Brett Helquist
  • The follower / Jack Gantos
  • The red fire engine / David Macaulay
  • There must be a mistake / Morris Gleitzman
  • Thwacked / David Granger
  • My superpowers / Dan Greenburg
  • My dad is better than your dad / Andy Griffiths
  • Adam McCauley
  • Let's go to the videotape / Dan Gutman
  • Boys, beer, barf, and bonding / Bruce Hale
  • Shooting the breeze / Dave and Liam McKean
  • Principals and principles / Daniel Handler
  • A great, big, beautiful world / Will Hobbs
  • My French teacher tried to kill me / Anthony Horowitz
  • Learning how to be a boy / James Howe
  • Lightning man / Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • A casualty of war / Brian Jacques
  • Wrestling with reading / Patrick Jones
  • Dav Pilkey
  • from "on writing" / Stephen King
  • Pop / David Klass
  • Guy things / Gordon Korman
  • Role-playing and discovery / Jerry Pinkey
  • Busted / Erik P. Kraft
  • Copies / David Lubar
  • When all bicycles were black / Vladimir Radunsky
  • The pellet in the paint can / Chris Lynch
  • Unfinished business / John Marsden
  • Sergio Ruzzier
  • Daydreams / Walter Dean Myers
  • Licky Dave / Garth Nix
  • Anything can happen / Kenneth Oppel
  • No, David! / David Shannon
  • Dead body / Jerry Pallotta
  • It all began with books / Christopher Paolini
  • from "How Angel Peterson got his name" / Gary Paulsen
  • The 1928 Packard / Richard Peck
  • Lone [star] Ranger / Daniel Pinkwater
  • David Sheldon
  • A day at the zoo ; Boys are big experts / Jack Prelutsky
  • "Funny you should ask" from The life of Reilly / Rick Relly
  • Peter Sís
  • The death of a writer / David Rice
  • Sweet dreams / Steve Rushin
  • Maybe yeah, maybe nah / René Saldaña, Jr.
  • Bufos / Graham Salisbury
  • Lane Smith
  • Brothers / Jon Scieszka
  • GUYfesto--who we are! / Darren Shan
  • The day I threw the Trivia Bowl / Robert Siegel
  • Bringing up 'saur subjects / Rick Spears
  • Roy G. Biv / Seymour Simon
  • The hammer and the bullet / Arthur Slade
  • The masque of the red death / William Sleator
  • Reading and relating / Michael W. Smith
  • The dragon in the big glommy castle / Mark Teague
  • Bombs, girls / Jerry Spinelli
  • Conduct / Rick Telander
  • The fire escape / Ned Vizzini
  • My first step to the White House / Chris Van Allsburg
  • Give a guy a newspaper / Bill Vlasic
  • Eat dirt / Rich Wallace
  • Training the bear / Will Weaver
  • Pals forever: me Bobby Fisher, and the Hardy Boys / Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
  • Aw, nuts! / Mo Willems
  • "Puzzle pieces" from The lost garden / Laurence Yep
  • Heartbeat / David Yoo
  • I was young in the old days / Paul O. Zelinsky.