[amberturner Posts: 142 Status: Offline WWW]

Hey, friends...Looking for a good middle grade with a stand-out third person boy voice. Any recs?

[dinalapomy101 Posts: 1,889 Status: Offline Happy writing to all! WWW]

Hide and Seek by Kate Messner

[Dianna Winget Posts: 335 Status: Offline I love kids' books! WWW]

Jerry Spinelli writes great books for boys, but can't remember if they're primarily third or first person.

[amberturner Posts: 142 Status: Offline WWW]

Thank you!

[Ruth Donnelly Posts: 659 Status: Offline WWW]

Okay For Now.
Liar and Spy.
You've probably read those, but they are the ones that popped into my mind as "great MG boy voice."

[Vijaya Posts: 7,331 Status: Offline Encourage WWW]

Some titles by Avi, Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth George. All historical. Great stuff.
Bud, Not Buddy; Watsons Go to Birmingham.

Vijaya

[dinalapomy101 Posts: 1,889 Status: Offline Happy writing to all! WWW]

Also every other chap of:
RULES FOR GHOSTING by A. J. Paquette
and I think most of:
DOLL BONES by Holly Black

[dinalapomy101 Posts: 1,889 Status: Offline Happy writing to all! WWW]

Looooooove OKAY FOR NOW!

[amaryllis2004 Posts: 53 Status: Offline YA contemporary WWW]

I agree with Okay For Now, and would add The Wednesday Wars, also by Gary Schmidt.

Another great one is Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko.

[amaryllis2004 Posts: 53 Status: Offline YA contemporary WWW]

Oops. Just realized you specified third person. I will ponder...

[dewsanddamps Posts: 2,327 Status: Offline]

I loved Gary D. Schmidt's Okay for Now, too, but wasn't it first person?

[dinalapomy101 Posts: 1,889 Status: Offline Happy writing to all! WWW]

Yup, you're right, OKAY FOR NOW is 1st person.

[writerjenn Posts: 309 Status: Offline WWW]

Nathan Bransford's Jacob Wonderbar books.

[LTMadison Posts: 109 Status: Offline Cover art avatar by 2020 WWW]

I'm currently listening to Julia Alvarez's RETURN TO SENDER. It has a third person 12-year-old boy narration interspersed with first person Mexican girl's narration. The story involves undocumented workers who are imported to save a Vermont farm.

[ohmylorelei Posts: 123 Status: Offline http://laurelsnyder.com WWW]

All of Kurtis Scaletta's book would fit the bill!  (I think-- I should check, but I think they're all third person).