Suggestions for boys from booksellers

Janet Bibeau at Storybook Cove in Hanover:

"Cirque Du Freak" (fiction), by Darren Shan "Alex Rider" (fiction), by Anthony Horowitz "Artemis Fowl" (fiction), by Eoin Colfer

Betsey Detwiler at Buttonwood Books in Cohasset:

"Cool Stuff and How it Works" (nonfiction), by Chris Woodford, Ben Morgan, Clint Witchalls, and Kevin Jones "Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery" (fiction), by John Feinstein "Travel Team" (fiction), by Mike Lupica

Terri Schmitz at Children's Book Shop, Brookline:

"Alive" (nonfiction), by Piers Paul Read. "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance" (nonfiction), by Jennifer Armstrong.

Carol Chittenden at Eight Cousins bookstore, Falmouth:

"Dark Materials Trilogy" (fiction) by Philip Pullman "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" (fiction), by Rick Riordan " The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time" (fiction), Robert Jordan