Do any of these look like they'd scream READ ME to a teen boy?
I actually skipped 3 of these books already, and I just may require him to read Christy.
To be fair to Sonlight 100, there are plenty of "boy-friendly" books in the reading list: My Side of the Mountain, The Red Badge of Courage, Amos Fortune, Maniac Magee, The Call of the Wild, The Cross and the Switchblade, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That's just a sampling of titles.
No shortage of good literature choices, that's certain. Plenty to choose from, even if I decide to skip a few. And my daughters will certainly enjoy these four books even if my sons don't find them intriguing.
3 comments:
I have the movie, "Christy." You're welcome to borrow it. LMK.
Mich.
Does David read titles off the Sonlight list as well? Do you allow any comics? I tell you Calvin and Hobbes is a great vocabulary booster! (smile, wink, nudge)
Fox thought it odd at school that he could only read within the grade limits they told him (6th-12th). He reads everything never really thinking about a "level."
It is so important to have books that appeal to each gender. I'm glad you've found enough titles in Sonlight's Core 100 to satisfy your needs. I think there are enough titles in most of the Sonlight's Cores that will appeal to both boys and girls. However, for Core 5, Sonlight offers both a boy and a girl version of the Core.
As a boy, I know I would much rather read a "boy" book [smile].
~Luke
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