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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Percy Jackson, Harry Potter[/quote]

Lord of the Ring

In fact until recently, pretty much every book.[/quote]

That's a good quip.  But you apparently haven't been to a bookstore in a couple decades.[/quote]

I was at a bookstore last weekend. Girls have been reading books about boys having adventures for centuries. I know I did! Is there some reason that your boy can't enjoy books about girls having adventures? [/quote]

Kids need books that are windows and books that are mirrors. Just because things were really one sided in the past doesn’t mean they should swing the other way now. I want my boys to be able to read contemporary books with girl and boy protagonists. [/quote]

The point is, not all contemporary books feature "only girls." Which you would know if *you* had been in a bookstore lately. ;)
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Do you know how hard it is to find a book with a male protagonist? Or even a YA book by a male author? I spend gobs of time going through shelves and shelves at the library looking for something appropriate for my advanced reader, who is willing to read books w/female protagonists and is a self-proclaimed feminist, but who would like to read books w/male leads occasionally! Percy Jackson, Harry Potter are great, but too simplistic and when you hit upper middle school the pickings are slim! I brought home “Boy robot” last week from the library which stated it was about what makes us human - I didn’t pre-read it. DS comes downstairs today and says, “So Boy Robot was ok, but did you know there’s a lot of gay sex in it? I don’t mind but I thought you’d want to know.” 
Gay sex is fine but it shouldn’t be this hard to find non-fantasy, non-sports YA books w/male protagonists! Go through a bookstore sometime. It’s about 10%. [/quote]

Not sure how you've managed to miss Jason Reynolds in all of this poring over library bookshelves you claim to be doing. Or Justin Reynolds, for that matter.

And references to sex in in YA books are pretty common. You might want to do a lot more pre-reading if that's going to be a problem.[/quote]

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