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Boy Protagonists

Description: Books with a boy as the main character. Subjects vary.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Robin Stevenson

73 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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2

by Markus Zusak

6,634 members

336 reviews

4

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3

Freshman for President

32 members

½ 2.3

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4

82 members

8 reviews

4.2

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5

The Prince of Venice Beach

by Blake Nelson

149 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

6

The Walls Around Us

by Nova Ren Suma

720 members

51 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

7

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

by Kate Hattemer

252 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

8

How It Went Down

by Kekla Magoon

614 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

9

All American Boys

by Jason Reynolds

1,877 members

65 reviews

½ 4.3

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10

by Kristen Landon

396 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

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11

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs

134 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

12

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

283 members

16 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

13

Swallowing Stones

by Joyce McDonald

388 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

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14

The Devil in the White City

22,270 members

702 reviews

4

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15

by Stefan Petrucha

402 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

16

by Matthew Pearl

7,555 members

171 reviews

½ 3.4

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17

by John C. Ford

58 members

1 review

5

Member: gghslibrary

18

by Paul Griffin

245 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

19

Marcelo in the Real World

by Francisco Stork

1,841 members

153 reviews

4.2

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20

The Black Dahlia

by James Ellroy

5,493 members

133 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gghslibrary

21

Boys Don't Knit

by T. S. Easton

208 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

22

Hunting the Dragon

20 members

3 reviews

2

Member: gghslibrary

23

If the Witness Lied

by Caroline B. Cooney

301 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

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24

Getting the Girl

by Markus Zusak

586 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gghslibrary

25

by Neal Shusterman

866 members

49 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

26

by Louis Sachar

2,996 members

74 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gghslibrary

27

Zipped (Knopf Readers Circle)

by Laura McNeal

170 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gghslibrary

28

Six impossible things

199 members

13 reviews

3.8

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29

208 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

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30

by H. M. Castor

174 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

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31

The Tightrope Walkers

by David Almond

110 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

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32

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

by Phillip Hoose

664 members

41 reviews

4.1

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33

by Skye Melki-Wegner

65 members

6 reviews

4.2

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34

Kids of Appetite

by David Arnold

336 members

19 reviews

4.1

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35

Grendel's Guide to Love and War

98 members

1 review

4

Member: gghslibrary

36

Orbiting Jupiter

by Gary D. Schmidt

866 members

44 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

37

Character, Driven

87 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

Losers Take All

120 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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39

Don't Get Caught

140 members

11 reviews

3.8

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40

by Jesse Andrews

298 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

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41

1,438 members

59 reviews

3.8

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42

by Daniel Chacon

17 members

1 review

3

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43

One of the Boys

by Daniel Magariel

196 members

20 reviews

3.8

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44

101 members

1 review

4

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45

Yvain: The Knight of the Lion

by M. T. Anderson

134 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

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46

What Elephants Know

by Eric Dinerstein

149 members

17 reviews

½ 4.5

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47

by Paolo Bacigalupi

252 members

12 reviews

3.9

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48

Only Killers and Thieves

by Paul Howarth

258 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

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49

259 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

83 members

1 review

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

51

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

8,351 members

725 reviews

3.8

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52

by Stephen Wallenfels

55 members

3

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53

Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery in Black and White

by John Feinstein

66 members

3

Member: gghslibrary

54

51 members

1 review

Member: gghslibrary

55

by Martin Stewart

167 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

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56

Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

by Natalie C. Anderson

126 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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57

by Dyan Sheldon

43 members

12 reviews

3

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58

The Light in the Forest

by Conrad Richter

2,215 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

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59

197 members

15 reviews

4.1

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60

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,712 members

76 reviews

4.2

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61

by Kelly Loy Gilbert

217 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

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62

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

by Matthew Quick

1,078 members

86 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

63

The Tragedy Paper

by Elizabeth LaBan

474 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: gghslibrary

64

The False Prince

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

2,958 members

162 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

65

The Warrior Heir

by Cinda Williams Chima

3,207 members

93 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

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Started: gghslibrary
October 2016
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