Guys Read: True Stories
Written by Jon Scieszka, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Partridge and
Narrated by Bruce Thomas, Hillary Huber, Robin Weigert and
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About this audiobook
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by real-life literature legend Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: True Stories is a mind-blowing collection of essays, biographies, how-to guides, and more, all proving that the truth is most definitely out there.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
Jon Scieszka
Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man. He is also the founder of guysread.com and a champion force behind guyslisten.com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Reviews for Guys Read
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contains daily essays on children's book recommendations for toddlers through teens alongside events and activities for every day of the year. Seems like a really fantastic resource to follow, especially as someone who constantly needs ideas for storytime. The site is easy to use either casually or to create booklists with the search feature that allows the user to pull up books by author, age, subject, or type of book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I surprised myself by enjoying the majority of these stories. Even the ones I didn't like weren't all that bad, either.My favorites:"Will" by Adam Rex was super good. I didn't want that one to end, and would love to read a full-blown novel version."Artemis Begins" by Eoin Colfer was also really good, and not just because I'm an Artemis Fowl fan."Your Question for Author Here" by Kate DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka. LOVED this one. I'm a sucker for letter stories, but this one was really well done."A Fistful of Feathers" by David Yoo genuinely scared me. Very disturbing.Like I said, the rest of the stories weren't bad. I would recommend the anthology not just to boys, but girls too.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this book of humorous short stories and will be able to find many ways to use this with my middle school students! Loved the Jon Scieszka and Kate diCamillo story with the letters to the author! So cool!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love the Guys Read series because there is a huge variety of authors and writing styles in each book. This book included science poetry and a short historical graphic novel! There were also personal essays, memoir, and historical nonfiction. Each story was interesting and written in a way that is accessible to a range of ages (middle grade and up) and reading levels. I wasn’t a huge fan of nonfiction as a kid because I thought it was boring, research-type reading, but if I had read this one, I would have tried to find more nonfiction just like it! And I’m saying that as a girl (re: Guys Read).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfect for most 9-12 year-old boys, also pretty darn funny even for a mom. Dramatic, crude, stupid - and laugh-out-loud funny. I am thankful that one story was about a boy who wasn't as macho as the others.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not certain why this book specified that it was for guys. Not all the stories were by male authors. Not all the audiobook readers were male readers. The book as a whole does not support boys becoming better men. The topics discussed are not of male interest only (or even mostly). The "guys read" aspect of this is very confusing and unnecessarily sexist, which is sad, because the stories (for the most part) are well selected and interesting.