Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West - Paperback

by Joe Giorello (Author)

Does your son race through video games for hours - then stall out on page two of a book?

Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West is the fix, covering the fastest-moving, most dangerous, and truly curious chapter in American history - the kind of story that gets a reluctant reader to turn the page. And then another. And another.

Fifteen years ago, history teacher Joe Giorello started a middle-school class called "Great Battles for Boys" because his own son wouldn't read. The class worked, not only for his son but hundreds of boys who otherwise avoided reading. Today, the Great Battles for Boys books are trusted by families and have earned more than 7,000 five-star reviews - because they spark a love of reading and history in boys who might otherwise avoid books altogether.

In this new volume, boys ride west and find out:

• How a small band of defenders held the Alamo for thirteen days - and how Texas won its independence eighteen minutes later at San Jacinto
• Why a man born into slavery became the most feared Deputy U.S. Marshal in the West
• What really happened during the thirty seconds of gunfire at the O.K. Corral
• How two railroad crews raced from opposite ends of a continent to meet in the Utah desert
• Which frontier "cures" were real medicine - and which ones could kill you
• Why the Wild West didn't end in 1890. It ended in 1928, with one last gunfight.

Every chapter is built for a boy who thinks he doesn't like reading: short, fast, and packed with historic photographs, battle maps, and WHO FOUGHT? profiles of the people who were actually there - Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Bass Reeves, and more.

And it tells boys the truth.

The Wild West included some controversial battles. This book doesn't skip them, and it doesn't sensationalize them. Parents, grandparents, and homeschool teachers can hand a boy this book without worrying about what he'll find in it - or what he'll be missing.

"My grandson has become a voracious reader. His teacher noticed a dramatic jump in his reading proficiency."

"We homeschool, and he learned more from these battle books than from any other curriculum or textbook."

Get him hooked on reading - one battle at a time. Order Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West today.

Once he finishes this one, he'll want the next.

Great Battles for Boys runs all the way from Ancient warfare to the twentieth century, and boys almost never stop at one book:

• Ancients to Middle Ages - the fights that built the western world
• The American Revolution
• The Civil War
• World War I
• WW2 Pacific and WW2 Europe
• The Korean War
• The Vietnam War
• Epic Sea Battles
• The Boys Book of Sea Fights, Volumes 1 & 2

The complete series is also available as a set - a gift that tends to outlast every other present in the room.