This Christmas my son received a book called Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's a coming of age book about a 13 year old boy who is in a plane crash in the Canadian forest and how he survives. It is a series of five books and they are all just as good as the last (I read all of them in a week. They are very fast reads). Gary Paulsen has been a prolific writer and many/most of his books are targeted at boys.

I thought some of you here would be interested as boy books can be difficult to find.