Here are the winning essays from the 2012 Boys’ Life reading contest.
I really hope I win this year. I never win anything. but my skills are writing reports and novels such as Jurassic Museum, Alex Green and The Vampire Rebellion series. wish me good luck.
These re awesome books a really awesome book is called the holy bible
i liked 20000 leagues under the sea, i kind of wanted to be the captain.
wow, that is amazing, i am definately joining, but hey, dont be to mad if i beat you all!!
Good job!!! This year…..you will have more competition……so watch out buddies!!!
These are awesome! These won last year, but I am going to dominate this year! See me on the page for this contest next year!!! Real name is ?. Find out in the magazine next year!
Here are the winning essays from the 2011 Boys’ Life reading contest.
I am so glad for all of you! And i’m sure everyone who entered the contest put a lot of effort into their reports. Good job everyone! :]
I like it. Every one did a really really really good job
The Fable Haven series is really fun to write about.
I don’t like these books or book reports….. How are THEY winners????
Your soooo right. There just school book reports that the teacher proof read except for “To Kill A Mockingbird” because that is high school level.
Some of those books are in the same series as the book I’m going to do this year (2011)!!!!!
I am maybe going to write “The Story of World War II.”
I think everyone did a great job. I think I’ll enter this year.
I think I’ll read some of those books, my mom calls me “super reader”
great job everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone did an AWESOME job!! This is about everyone putting all their effort in this. WAY TO GO BOYS:]
I think Harry Potter any of them should have won but still the reports are a lot better than i could write!!!!!!
has anyone read the rangers apprentice by john Flanagan? its my all time favorite series, i totally recommend. read it.
Can girls enter too ? B/c my sister is 13 and she wants to ?
the contest is made for boys but i dont think they wold mind if your sister entered
Well, your sister mabey could enter if she is in a Venture. I don’t know all the age reqs. so i’m not sure if she can join or not. Otherwise, I don’t think she could enter being this is for BOY scouts.
Yeah, the Tom Sawer book was pretty funny and coincedental. Great job everyone who did the contest!
That is an awesome report!!!! I haven’t read that book yet but you can bet that it will be the first one I look for in the library tomorrow. Way to go! I always knew I would see your name in lights.
Wow! As always, I am so proud of you! I love the way you made connections to your life and the book. Thanks for being in my class this year. You made this year extra “bright!”
I like the one on The 39 Tlues. The 39 Clues series is my favorite book series!
Here are the winners of the 22nd annual Boys' Life reading contest.
Give a $100 gift card for something else, like Amazon or Best Buy!
Want the most amazing book out there? Try The Lord of the Rings; it’s the best! Good luck to all who enter (I like earning patches, even if I can’t get 100 bucks).
Lord of the Rings is the best series of books in it’s genre, since the mid 1900s. J.R. Tolkien RULES!!!!!
if you like goosebumps but they get you freaked try american chillers there the coolest searies for maximum chills!
I wish they had like a video game review contest! I would win! XD
I love the contests. I already have the patch. May the best Boy win1
I agree. My dad loved this book that’s why I wrote my essay about it and I can’t believe I won 2nd prize. I read Sammy the Seal this year and submitted. Hopefully I’ll win again.
all of the books in my age (11+) sound really good but i just read a book that is sooooooo much better so i think i have a good chance to win plus im a very good writer
I’m gonna win 1st this year!
(I want the patch too).
can someone tell me how many pages Harold and the purple crayon is?
I hope i win the contest . My book is the Red Pyramid it is a awesome
Both Hatchet reports described the book very well! And I agree Gary Paulsen is a great author.
the scat report is really good and i think it was telling great things about the book.
i want a certificate from target or gamestop so i am going to win thisyear i like reading
How the heck are you going to get a certificate to GameStop or Target.
well i just think that if theres someone out there that wants to win i would give them a chance.
Has anyone got there patch yet for entering? Do you know when we are supposed to get them?
well i just like to say that i think all the winners out there are totally awesome and i would really like a good luck cause i am going to enter the contest and i would at least like to be in 2nd or 3rd place thanks for every thing.
there is a sequel to hatchet that is better, rcommend you read it.
Here are the winners of the 22nd annual Boys' Life reading contest.
Write a one-page report titled "The Best Book I Read This Year" and enter it in the Boys' Life 2013 "Say Yes to Reading!" contest.
That was a really goo job guys.I like to read to.I hope I win this year.Great job guys.Wish you guys luck this year.Great job!!!!!!!!!**
These books are the best ones I ever read.Keep on doing the good work.YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, i really want to read diary of a wimpy kid now!
GOOD JOB YOU GUYS! I`m going to read thoes books.
That sounds so much fun – and i love to collect patches so i think ill try it, too! Great job to all the 2008 winners! 
These “Boys Life” Reader sure did a great job. I Hope I win it this year. Great Job winners and hope you do it next year
Me and my mom read the Magic Tree House we last read 24 its sooooo cool. And i have the Eragon,Eldest,and Brisinger i have not read them yet but they sound like there awsome.You guys better enter in the DSI contest.
i love games but i love reading also i’m reading the book “snot stew”.
The Diary of the Wimpy Kid series is an awesome series. I can’t wait for book 4.
I saw some books some people used especially the Magic Tree House and I have to enter
I just read a lot of these essays or page reports and I have to enter this year.
Who Broke Lincoln’s Thumb sounds really good. are you proud that you won?
Great entries, I’ll have to enter myself. Nice job winners!
Way to go. Owl in the Shower is a great book to read in honor of Earth Day!
you guys deserved to win. give yourself a slap on the back for doing such a great job.
iv read most of those and they are awesome especially brisingr
nice prizes. I read some good books all ready! I’ll have to enter
wow i am going to enter this contest this year and now i know how to write my report winners you were very helpful thanks an congrates
I love those books about Eragon, geoffrey. I’m with you!!
^.^ cool! i wonder what book os should read for the contest… -.-
I’ve read Diary of a Wimpy Kid when I was 10 ( I’m 12 now ) It Was AWESOME!
I love what they did.some of those books i want to read after what they had to say
Here are the winning essays from the 2008 Boys’ Life reading contest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great novel to read. A more difficult to read by the same author, Samuel Clemens, is “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because many of the speech between the characters is written in local speech and not standard “English School Teacher” spelling of words.
Hatchet rocks!!!im reading Brians Winter right now!its the sequel to Hatchet!!!
OMG Theese are so cool I am at the moment reading Hatchet and I read the Phantom Tool Booth Last year i wish i knew about the contest!!
I AGREE WITH PRETTYBOY i read three I WANT TO read the fourth one so bad
I haven’t read Hathet yet. It sounds like a good book!
U SHOULD READ City Of Ember its going to be in a movie
my favorite part in ender’s game was when someone said, ”after years of watching
kids fly around in space, football is like watching slugs bash into each other. ”
i missed this contest by a month. oh well there’s aways this year
I think I might enter the next contest! It sounds fun!
I am sure that these kids worked real hard. They deserve to be winners.
I think that they worked so hard, they deserve the winning places that they got.
We received an avalanche of entries for the 20th annual Boys' Life "Say Yes to Reading!" contest. Here are the winning essays.
Great work on those essays guys! Hey Sam, keep up the good work and don’t lose your faith in God! In fact, encourage others to persevere!
What Great Reports. This really has changed the way I look at how to write one.
you guys keep up the great work almost a 500 word essay
Good writing skills, guys. They all make me want to read the books. Keep reading!!
Dude great job.I really liked the one about fast food nation. You all need to always do your best. }
Great essays guys! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey!!!!!! These books are very interesting!!!! Im gonna enter this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo! Yo! You are good! keep up the good work! Yo!Yo!
Cool keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello
Very interesting information! Thanks!
G’night
This is such a great contest for all scouts and im totaly entering this year
I know I’m going to enter this year, because it’s summer and I have a long time to decide what book I want to wrtie about. I’m all ready sure what book I’m going to do, but we’ll have to see.
somebody says is kind of right, but the older scouts kind of earned it so it is fair. I think I am going to participate this year, it sounds great! I wonder what you win?
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Evrey body that participated. i hope that yall do better next time. maybe since i read a few of yalls stories and i think yall did a great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! p.s i love scouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, it doesn’t seem fair to lump 11 year olds and 17 year olds in the same category when 9 and 10 year olds are separate. Obviously a 17 year old will always beat an 11 year old, so the decks are really stacked against younger boys.
iread anne of green gables i thought that it was awesome
i love books on the holocaust and learning about things that some would rather forget and i am glad that you chose a winner like Night because that book is REAL and will teach us [the children] to appriciate what we do have in our american society
i liked the one the boy mechanic its sounds like a cool book to check out
I really liked these book reports. I am going to check out some of these books the next time I go to the library.
My comment goes to Josh Curry. When I read his letter, it made me think back to the days when I was younger, my parents, like in Josh’s letter, gave to me and continue to do so.
Here are the winning essays from the 2006 Boys’ Life reading contest. 8 YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER First Place: Josh Curry, 7, Covington, Wash. (“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein) I have read “The Giving Tree” many times but read it again this summer while working on the BSA family badge. It is a really […]
That sounds like they are good books
I think that these were great choices, they gave precise details
”Reading is learning,seeing is believeing
reading is believing!