Mother Daughter Book Club Favorites

What makes a book a favorite? Being well liked by both mothers and daughters is a critical factor. But some of the favorites make this list because they're likely to prompt thoughtful discussions about social, moral, political or historic issues. Here are favorite reads for mother-daughter book clubs in several categories:

Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud

4th - 5th Grade Favorites

6th - 7th Grade Favorites

9th - 12th Grade Favorites

Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud

• A Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck
• A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck Read Review!
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
• Bloomability - Sharon Creech Read Review!
• Boy - Roald Dahl Read Review!
• Flipped - Wendelin Van Drannen Read Review!
• Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce Read Review! Read Interview!

4th - 5th Grade Favorites

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Bat 6 – Virginia Euwer Wollf
• Boston Jane – Jennifer Holm
• Boy – Roald Dahl Read Review!
• Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
• Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
• Granny Torrelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech
• Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
• Our Only May Amelia - Jennifer Holm
• The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo Read Review!
• Red Scarf Girl – Ji-Li Jiang Read Review!
• When the Hermit Thrush Sings - Susan Butler

6th - 8th Grade Favorites

• A Year Down Yonder – Richard Peck Read Review!
• A Step from Heaven – An Na Read Review!
• Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko Read Review! Read Interview!
• Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
• Bloomability – Sharon Creech Read Review!
• Everything on a Waffle – Polly Horvath
• Flipped - Wendelin Van Drannen Read Review!
• Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce Read Review! Read Interview!
• Going Solo – Roald Dahl Read Review!
• Hoot – Carl Hiassen
• Millions - Frank Cottrell Boyce Read Review! Read Interview!
• P. S. Longer Letter Later – Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin
• Petey – Ben Michaelson
• Remember Me to Harold Square - Paula Danziger Read Review!
• Stolen Voices: A Collection of Young People's War Diaries - Melanie Challenger and Zlata Filipovic Read Review! Read Interview!
• Tangerine – Edward Bloor
• The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
• The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles - Julie Andrews Edwards Read Review!
• The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood – Ann Brashares
• The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Zlata’s Diary – Zlata Fillipovic Read Review! Read Interview!

9th - 12th Grade Favorites

• A Certain Slant of Light – Laura Whitcomb Read Interview!
• Every Crooked Pot - Renée Rosen Read Review!
• Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
• I Am the Messenger - MarKus Zusak Read Interview!
• In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez Read Review!
• Light Years – Tammar Stei
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Read Review! Read Interview!
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd Read Review!
• West With the Night – Beryl Markham Read Review!

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