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Guys Read logo. Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author Jon Scieszka in 2001. Its mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers" by bringing attention to the issue, promoting the expansion of what is called "reading" to include materials like comic books, and encouraging grown men to be literacy role models.
A sequel targeted at girls, The Daring Book for Girls, was published in late October 2007. It was written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz. [8] The Dangerous Book for Boys partnered with science kit publisher Thames & Kosmos, who released two kits licensed under The Dangerous Book for Boys in autumn of 2009. [9]
After their fencing instructor Ettore Russo tells them about a family sword, the championship saber Adalante, the Hardy Boys go to California to search for the sword's missing half. Supposedly written on the sword is the owner's will that names the fencing instructor as a major heir of his deceased grandfather's fortune.
Her commentary on the rise of teenage sexually transmitted diseases has caught attention in education [2] and popular publications. [3] [4] Meeker is invited onto broadcast programs on the topics she has written about, such as The Today Show, [5] and The Ingraham Angle [6] and she has a following in Christian groups on social and mainstream media [7] [8] and former President Donald Trump. [9]
Let Books Be Books was founded in March 2014 as a campaign to persuade publishers of children's books to stop labelling and promoting books as 'for boys' or 'for girls'. '. The campaign, which is led by parents and traces its origins to a thread on the on-line forum Mumsnet, is a spin-off of the Let Toys be Toys campaign, which seeks to get toy manufactures to stop gendering their prod
The novel portrays the teenage boy Lacy Gore Buchan and his military family in rural Fairfax County, Virginia, before and at the start of the American Civil War.The Buchans interact with the Posey family in Georgetown and the impulsive George Posey, who is engaged to Lacy's sister Susan, against their father's will.
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Adams wrote well over 100 books in total, [7] most of them for a boy audience, and the majority of these in series of four to six volumes published under a pseudonym. Two novels published in his own name, The Way of the World and Living Too Fast , were aimed at adult readers but fell flat. [ 14 ]