Kathleen A. Baxter served as the Coordinator for Children's Services in the Anoka County (MN) Library for over 25 years. She is the coauthor of several other Gotcha! books for Libraries Unlimited and is a well known presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research.
Marcia Agness Kochel is currently Media Director at Olson Middle School in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Research indicates boys are interested in reading nonfiction materials, yet most children's librarians prefer to booktalk fiction. Offering citations for more than 1,100 books, Gotcha for Guys! deals specifically with books to pique the interest of middle grade boys. A series of booktalks are grouped within chapters with like titles such as: Creepy-Crawly Creatures, Disasters and Unsolved Mysteries, Action and Innovation, and All Things Gross. Complete booktalks are presented in a beginning section of chapters 1-9. A second section in each of these chapters contains short annotations and talks for other books of interest, and a third section offers lists of well-reviewed titles to consider for boys. The book is enhanced with book cover art and reproducible lists for teachers and librarians.