The Steader Homeschool Method is partly just to have the kids read a bunch of books.
That can be a little more challenging for boys.
One of the steadermen ran across this article.
https://im1776.com/2022/07/05/a-history-of-lost-adventure/
We tossed some suggestions back and forth.
We decided to share them.
G.A. Henty’s adventure books
C.S. Lewis Narnia and the Space books
Tolkien
Heinlein juveniles (but only the juveniles). Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; Starship Troopers; Farmer in the Sky; Tunnel in the Sky.
Plutarch
Philly War Zone: Growing up in a Racial Battleground by Kevin Purcell
Jurassic Park and a number of other Crichton books
Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry Shute (fictional account of a boy growing up in Exeter, NH in the 1860's.)
The Great Brain Series
A Southie Memoir by Brian Wallace -- great story of hijinks growing up in Boston in the 1960's and 70's, like figuring out how to always sneak into the Boston Garden for free basketball games and evade the security guards
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jerry Pournelle’s (1) High Justice; (2) Exiles to Glory; and (3) The Birth of Fire.
Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days; and 20,000 Leagues
N.D. Wilson’s Ashtown Burial
Rip Van Winkle
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, many memorable lines and is great satire of the powers that be.
Treasure Island. May be more accessible on audio or in an abridged version for younger readers. Stevenson is good in general.
various Sir Walter Scott novels, Last of the Mohicans, the Penrod books, the adult fiction by Booth Tarkington, Swiss Family Robinson, Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe books.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Roger Lancelyn Green’s King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is really good.
David Bentley Hart's recent novel Kenogaia
read Well’s Outline of History and Chesterton’s Everlasting Man together
Alan Garner’s books. Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Moon of Gomrath, etc.
Ranger’s Apprentice series
Tumble and Blue
Little Britches books by Ralph Moody
Robert E. Howard’s Breckinridge Elkins stories
George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat’ral Durn’d Fool.
Education of Little Tree (fake but still fun)