List of Books that Publishers Want (2/15/12)

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If gives me a personal delight to take advantage of the knowledge of other people and this is a great example. At Life the Universe and Everything writing symposium in 2011 the panel of this name discussed what kids have liked to read as observed by librarians. Notes from discussion were added. So this might influence what books to read to your kids during reading hour. Just some ideas. This was forward to me from a friend who attended the panel. I don’t know who presented it.

High-Low Reading for Boys (Written about middle school/H.S. but written at 4th grade level)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Strange Case of Origami Yoda

Shredderman

Skeleton Creek

Spiderwick Chronicles

Invention of Hugo Cabret

 

Adventure Books: (Real life stories—like the kid who went to scout camp and ended up in survival mode).

Hatchet

My Side of the Mountain

Gordon Korman Series

  • Dive
  • On the Run
  • Kidnapped
  • Island

 

Superheroes:

Hero by Mike Lupica

The ExtraOrdinary Adfentures of Ordinary Boy (series)

Quantum Prophecy Series

Poserless

Gthe Girl Who Could Fly

 

Magical Realism: (Historical or Real life setting with a small magic twist)

Seven Wonders fo Sassafras Springs—a kid tries to find 7 wonders in his hick town, and discovers little bits of magic and wonder (in only one example, a man in town builds a tiny model, and anything he makes happen in the model occurs in town).

Seer of Shadows

Thunder Cave

Water Seeker

Nineth Ward

 

Robots and Cool Technology: (Boys love this, and we only have 2 examples…hint, hint.  I’m glad that this is where I’m writing already, a ship of astounding technology BM)

Story: Infinity Code by E.L. Young (boy puts together a team to work technical wonders)

Ricky Ricotta Series by Dave Pilkey (Mouse with a giant robot.)

DON’T USE CUTESY ROBOTS

 

Monsters and Scary Books:

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Stone Child

Witch’s Sister

Dead Boys

 

Mythology, Greek and Other: (Vampires, Zombies and Dragons have been overdone. These aren’t being purchased now like the rest.)

Gods of Manhattan

Chronus Chronicles

Odysseus in the Serpent Maze

The Reluctant God

She shared a list of creatures from the Fantasy Encyclopedia that could be used:             Gargoyles                               Geni

Griffon                                                Goblin

Hypocampus                           Trolls

Leprechauns                           Pooka

Hobgoblins                             Kobolds

Brownies                                 Domovoy

Bogart                                     Elementals

Nymph                                    Dryad

Fawn                                       Satyr (Mr. Tumnus, made this interesting).

Centaur (boys love this)         Leshies

Bunyip                                                Pegasus

Unicorn                                   Wyvern

Shamarack                              Sphynx

Cyclops                                   Gollum

Mummy                                  Doppleganger

Windigo (Native American). Book called Wabi.

 

After looking at this list, Bob thinks that she pulled a list of creatures, but some of them may not make as good of stories as she might think.  The principle is the same: We have an incredible list of creatures. Lots that we can use. So much that we could do with it.

A couple of fun examples for girls: Mother/Daughter Book Club, a book by Sharon Draper about a girl with cerebral palsy who can’t talk, and as such is in a classroom where they teach the alphabet for years, but she’s genius.  TRAPPED.  What an idea!

Notes:  Girls will read about Boy protagonists, but boys really avoid girl protagonists.  Paired prots are OK for boys (Fablehaven siblings).

She reported that a book called Clockwork Three sold out in three weeks.  I wonder why.

 

Looking at this list I see that kids love adventure. Even the titles sound great. Seek these books at your favorite library or borrow from a friend. With the advancement of eBooks on line you should be able to go up on line and look for the following type of key worlds:  The point is to just put in a variety of how you type in your search to get multiple results.

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