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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.

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ISBN-13:	9780062316523
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/16/2014
Series:	Guys Read Series , #5
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

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Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Robot Zot!, and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did.

Elizabeth Partridge is the author of This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and other acclaimed works. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay area.

Douglas Florian's books for children include A Pig Is Big, as well as the poetry collections Beast Feast; Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs; In the Swim; and Mammalabilia. Mr. Florian lives with his family in New York City.

Thanhhà Lai was born in Viêt Nam and now lives with her family in New York.

Like the father in Listen, Slowly, Thanhhà has been buying bicycles for poor children in Viêt Nam since 2005.

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Ten stories by some of today’s most notable nonfiction authors, including Margaret A. Edwards Award winner Jim Murphy and the National Book Award winner Thanhha Lai, make up this entertaining collection. Each story is unique and stylistically appealing. “Sahara Shipwreck”—a good mixture of intriguing plot, gore, and gross, complete with body function descriptions—opens this anthology, but the other stories are just as well written. “A Jumbo Story” follows Jumbo’s interesting life as a circus elephant and ends with his tragic death. “A Cartoonist’s Course” is inspirational and instructive to anyone with a dream. There is much to like about this anthology. It includes first- and third-person accounts, multiple approaches to storytelling (prose, verse, comics), and various subject areas (music, medicine, and science), making it easy for readers to find at least one engaging story. Most of the stories are accompanied by a bibliography that can be used as a springboard for further investigation. For example, at the end of “This Won’t Hurt a Bit: The Painfully True Story of Dental Care,” Murphy offers phrases to use when searching for information (e.g., “Medieval tooth pullers”) and a list of books to peruse. Readers who have enjoyed the established Guys Read series will not be disappointed with this fifth installment. Reviewer: KaaVonia Hinton; Ages 11 to 15.

VOYA, October 2014 (Vol. 37, No. 4) - KaaVonia Hinton

★ 2014-07-01
A stellar lineup of nonfiction writers offers true stories, which, like the previous volumes in the Guys Read series, are written to appeal especially to boys. Steve Sheinkin leads off with a survival tale, as Capt. James Riley and his crew are shipwrecked off the coast of West Africa in the summer of 1815 and survive the Sahara desert by drinking their own urine and eating their peeling, sunburned skin. Enslaved, they are eventually saved by Muslim traders, and Riley joins the anti-slavery movement upon his return to the United States. Sy Montgomery writes a beautiful ode to the rain forest of French Guiana and profiles tarantulas and Sam Marshall, a scientist who studies them and who is featured in Montgomery's The Tarantula Scientist (2004). Jim Murphy delivers an unsettling history of dental horrors from 6,500 years ago to the present day (or at least his second visit to the dentist); Candace Fleming profiles Jumbo, the world's largest elephant; Elizabeth Partridge writes about Alan Lomax and Muddy Waters; and T. Edward Nickens is almost killed canoeing frigid Alaskan waters. The stories—prose, poetry and a graphic story—are full of action and lively, sometimes-gross details that make their subjects come alive. An unusually strong volume—a smorgasbord for young nonfiction readers (both boys and girls) and a good pick for the classroom. (Short stories. 8-14)

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