Books Boys Like
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compiled by Mara Alpert (malpert42@hotmail.com), Los Angeles Public
  Library
from posts to PUBYAC, September 2000


These authors and titles are in addition to the following:

Rowling, J.K. / Harry Potter series
Scieszka, Jon / Time Warp Trio
Pilkey, Dav / Captain Underpants
Sachar, Louis / Holes

(Note: These are in order of popularity and then alphabetical.  When I say 
"vote", it means the number of people who mentioned this author or title.)

Paulsen, Gary / especially Hatchet; also Culpepper, Harris & Me, etc. (40 
votes)
Dahl, Roald / especially Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the 
Giant Peach, Matilda (10 votes)
Coville, Bruce / especially the Magic Shop series and the Alien series (9 
votes)
Christopher, Matt / sports fiction (7 votes)
Osborne, Mary Pope / Magic Treehouse series (6 votes)
Jacques, Brian / Redwall series (4 votes)
Rockwell, Thomas / How to Eat Fried Worms (4 votes)
Sobol, Donald / Encyclopedia Brown series (4 votes)
Dadey, Debbie / Bailey School Kids series (3 votes)
Gauthier, Gail / A Year with Butch and Spike, Club Earth, Life Among the 
Aliens (3 votes)
Hobbs, Will / especially Ghost Canoe (3 votes)
Korman, Gordon / especially The Chicken Doesn't Skate (3 votes)
Pullman, Phillip / Clockwork, I Was a Rat, The Golden Compass (3 votes)
Alexander, Lloyd / especially the Prydain series (2 votes)
Avi / Midnight Magic and Poppy series (2 votes)
Byars, Betsy / Bingo Brown series (2 votes)
Christopher, John / The White Mountains (2 votes)
Crutcher, Chris / Athletic Shorts and Stotan (2 votes)
Fleischman, Sid / Jim Ugly and McBroom series (2 votes)
Gantos, Jack / Jack Henry series and Joey Pigza series (2 votes)
Howe, James / Bunnicula series and Eat Your Poison, Dear (2 votes)
Lawrence, Iain / The Wreckers (2 votes)
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds / The Boys Start the War and Shiloh series (2 
votes)
Patneaude, David / Last Man's Reward, Someone was Watching (2 votes)
Pratchett, Terry / especially Discworld series (2 votes)
Sachar, Louis / Marvin Redpost series (2 votes)
Smith, Roland / Sasquatch, Thunder Cave (2 votes)
Weeks, Sarah / Guy Time, Regular Guy (2 votes)
Yolen, Jane / Commander Toad series, Merlin series (2 votes)

The following authors/titles each got 1 vote:

Abbot, Tony / Danger Guys
Adams, Douglas / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adler, David / Cam Jansen series
Alford, Jan / I Can't Believe I Have to Do This
Applegate, Katherine / Animorphs series
Barron, T. A.
Bellairs, John
Bloor, Edward / Tangerine
Bodett, Tom / Williwaw!
Bunting, Eve / Blackwater
Card, Orson Scott / Ender's Game
Cleary, Beverly
Cottonwood, Joe / Adventures of Boone Barnaby
Danziger, Paula / Make Like a Tree and Leave
DeFelice, Cynthia / Weasel
Duffey, Betsey / Cody series
Erickson, John R. / Hank the Cowdog series
Etra, Jonathan / Aliens for Breakfast
Fitzgerald, John D. / The Great Brain series
French, Jackie Koller / The Dragonling
Gardiner, John / Stone Fox
Gilson, Jamie / Hobie Hanson series
Goscinny / Asterix
Herge / Tintin
Holt, Kimberley Willis / When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas / The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Jansson, Tove / Moomin series
Kline, Suzy / Horrible Harry series
Mackel, Kathy / Can of Worms
Maguire, Gregory / The Good Liar
Morris, Gerald / A Squire and His Knight
Myers, Bill / Wally McDoogle series
Napoli, Donna Jo / Stones in Water
O'Brien, Robert / Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Peck, Robert Newton / Soup series
Petersen, P. J. / White Water
Pinkwater, Daniel
Rawls, Wilson / Where the Red Fern Grows
Ruckman, Ivy / Night of the Twisters
Sleator, William / Rewind
Sonenklar, Carol / Bug Boy
Spinelli, Jerry
Ungerer, Tomi / No Kiss for Mother
Wallace, Bill
Watterson, Bill / Calvin and Hobbes