# The Boys Start the War

**Author:** Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2008
**Page count:** 144
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780307514851`
**ISBN-10:** `0307514854`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-boys-start-the-war
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

It's the summer holidays--time for camping, fishing or just lazing, until girls move in next door. That means war, but the girls know how to fight back. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the winner of the Newbery Medal.

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Reader's Choice Award (PNLA)

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1996 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1996 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1996 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 1996 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)

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