Gotcha for Guys! Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading by Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia Agness Kochel. Libraries Unlimited. 2007.
Be sure to read the introduction which provides good tips on connecting boys with books. The authors offer topics of interest to boys, most of which are fairly obvious - Prehistoric Creatures, Science, Creepy-Crawly Creatures- and lists of new and not so new titles. Other topics that should really attract boys are All Things Gross, Disasters and Unsolved Mysteries, and Hot Topics: Magic, Riddles, Games, etc. Books cover grades K-12 so you have to sort out those appropriate for your students. Several complete booktalks are included in each chapter with plenty of other titles and short annotations. Some of the chapters include a list of the authors' favorite books to booktalk on that topic. If you are new to the idea of promoting books especially for boys, this book is a good resource to get you started. I would have liked some catchier titles for some of the topics (Animals, Science, American History) that I could have used for display purposes since I'm not very creative.
If you are searching for display topics and catchy titles, look at Chapter 10 in Merchandising Library Materials to Young Adults by Mary Anne Nichols. Although Nichols' lists are not aimed at just boys, there are several that would appeal to the guys in particular, such as "Go to Jail. . .Go Directly to Jail," "Got Guts?", "This is War!" and "And You Think You Have It Bad." She includes a suggested booklist (mainly high school and middle school titles) for each topic.
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