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Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Happily, many of these picks feature boys on the cover - except maybe a couple. I chose books where boys are either protagonists or a major part of the story (a co-protagonist, if you will). It goes without saying that girls can (and should) read these books as well, if they’d like. Many of these middle-grade books for boys are ones I’ve read and the others have been highly rated and reviewed by teachers, readers, and librarians whose recommendations I trust. Thankfully, that is changing, thanks to these excellent middle-grade boy books. I read a lot of books by women, about women/girls, so for a while I didn’t even pick up middle-grade books about boys. Many boys (far from all) gravitate towards books with boys on the cover, and it makes sense - windows and mirrors and all that. Okay, okay, before you think “how sexist of you!” this is a real issue - one I’ve also experienced in my brief stint as an English tutor. So many people have told me how hard it is to find middle-grade books for boys.
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