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The plot lines, executives say, will not alienate either of those groups or teen-age boy readers.
Ask students to read through each page and label each as either a "boy book" or a "girl book" — that is, a book that they feel might appeal more to boy readers or girl readers.
Whether or not that was deliberate, it's also notable that this is, in effect, the second time the author has used a concealing identity intended to disguise gender: her "JK" was famously calculated to hoodwink boy readers thought to be drawn to authors with male first names.
Richard Armstrong's Sea Change, 1948, a bustling sea faring adventure aimed squarely at boy readers, now feels old fashioned in both content and style while The Exeter Blitz by David Rees, 1978, a gently exciting story about the bombing of Exeter in the second world war, just seems rather too tame for today's readers.
Alexei Sayle's elaborate plot involves aliens landing in an expat community near Malaga, a young neglected boy and his single mother finding a robot suit and donning it for nefarious ends, and lots of Douglas Adams and Star Wars references to keep boy readers amused.
But because of our boy readers out there I won't say anymore Do something to take you mind off, swim, shop, eat, sleep and fight!
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And while there are cyclical bursts — we're in one right now — of worrying about the Boy Reader, publishers know there aren't enough of those to keep them in business, and they've got to get those girls.
Dark but not deep, it's the more boy-reader-friendly of the two books, with short chapters, lots of dialogue and doomy atmospherics.
At the New Republic, Esther Breger pointed out that the actor cast as Ron Weasley, Paul Thornley, doesn't exactly resemble the freckle-splattered, tomato-haired boy that readers will recall from the books.
Sucked into the girl-wants-boy, girl-ought-to-get-boy paradigm, readers find themselves rooting against reason for Bella's heart's desire: a speedy, violent demise, followed by bliss with Edward, 4ever.
This year, for the first time, tucked away in parentheses on the front page, are seven new words: "(Inclusive of data on men and boys)." Readers might wonder how crimes against women and girls can include men and boys.
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