Chet and his partner, Natalie Attired, take on a case involving an actor gone missing from the school musical.

Chet and his partner, Natalie Attired, take on a case involving an actor gone missing from the school musical.

Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.

Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and the winning ticket to a fantastic dessert.

" ... With an emphasis on non-fiction and the boy-friendly categories of genre fiction, this book offers a wealth of material including tips for how to booktalk one-on-one as well as in large groups, methods of performing indirect readers' advisory with parents or teachers, and suggested read-alikes as well as titles to offer a boy in place of a book he did not like or would not read ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Tea, Sticky Buns and the Body of Christ, POSTSCIPTS FROM a NURSING HOME, is the story of one family, their beloved but stubborn father, and his last months in a nursing home. A “home” wasn’t exactly what any of them had planned...not that they ever had a plan. See how they coped - sort of - with all of the angst, incontinence and ongoing irony. Along the way, read about a nun with a bird on her shoulder, fights that erupted during bingo and daughters who laughed, cried and crumbled as they became the raw meat of the “sandwich generation.”