Here are a few books from the Valuesfinder with teenage boys as protagonists:
Chernowitz by Fran Arrick
King of the Seventh Grade by Barbara Cohen
Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi by Cohen and Deutsch (young men, not boys)
Sam I Am by Eileen Cooper
Tell It to Naomi by Daniel Ehrenhaft
Playing Dad's Song by D. Dina Friedman
Nothing by Robin Friedman
Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl by D. L. Garfinkle
New Boy by Julian Houston
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E. L. Konigsberg
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsberg
The Singing Mountain by Sonia Levitin
David and Max by Gary Provost and Gail Provost Stockwell
All-Star Season by T. S. Yavin
Understanding Buddy by Marc Kornblatt
This list doesn't include historical fiction, such
as The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli or Brooklyn Bridge
by Karen Hesse.
Linda R. Silver
AJL Newsletter Reviews for Children and Teens
AJL Jewish Valuesfinder
c/o 3729 Meadowbrook Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118
[email protected]
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