This month, for Genre of the Month, we will be looking at books for guys. Below is a .pdf with a list of Books for Guys at Eisenhower Library. Below that will be a review of five books picked by the staffj just to whet your appetite.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Shift
Jennifer Bradbury
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
Godless
Pete Hautman
When Jason decides to make a mockery of religion by starting his own faith that revolves around the worshipping of a water tower, his friends go along with the gag until “followers” begin to look to them for guidance and Jason’s friends get power-hungry in their roles as founders of the new faith.
Evil Genius
Catherine Jinks
As a diligent student of criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon, Cadel Piggott has grown into quite an intelligent thief and computer hacker, but at fourteen and with new plots on the agenda, Cadel begins to rethink his future and the evil plans his mentor has in store for the world.
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick
The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.
