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Mother Daughter Book Club Reading Lists
Favorite Authors
Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Books for 2nd - 3rd Grade
Books for 4th - 5th Grade
Books for 6th - 8th Grade
Books for 9th - 12th grade
Historical Fiction
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Favorite Authors
- Richard Peck: A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Fair Weather, The Teacher’s Funeral
- Sharon Creech: Bloomability, Chasing Redbird, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
- Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
- Frank Cottrell Boyce: Millions, Framed Read Interview!
- Cornelia Funke: The Thief Lord, Inkheart, Inkspell, Dragon Rider
- Roald Dahl: Boy, Going Solo, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Paula Danziger: P.S. Longer Letter Later, Remember Me to Harold Square
- Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries series
- Susan Fletcher: Alphabet of Dreams, Shadow Spinner, Walk Across the Sea, Dragon Chronicles series
- Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
- Shannon Hale: Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, Princess Academy
- Markus Zusak: I Am the Messenger, The Book Thief Read Interview!
Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud
2nd - 3rd Grade Books
- Afternoon of the Elves - Janet Taylor Lisle
- Premlata and the Festival of Lights - Rumer Godden
- Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan Read Review!
- The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
- The Real Thief - William Steig
- The Secret School - Avi
- The Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White
- The Year of Miss Agnes - Kirkpatrick Hill
- The Year of the Dog - Grace Lin
4th - 5th Grade Books
- And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Bat 6 – Virginia Euwer Wollf
- Becoming Naomi Leon - Pam Munoz Ryan
- Boston Jane – Jennifer Holm
- Boy – Roald Dahl Read Review!
- Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
- Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Wrede
- Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
- Falcon's Prey - Kristina Coia Read Review!
- Gaia Girls - Enter the Earth - Lee Welles
- Gaia Girls - Way of Water - Lee Welles
- Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes
- Granny Torrelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech
- Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson
- Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
- Limeria - Kristina Coia Read Review!
- Nancy Drew Mysteries – Carolyn Keene
- Our Only May Amelia - Jennifer Holm
- Red Scarf Girl – Ji-Li Jiang Read Review!
- Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
- The Great Good Thing – Rod Townley
- The Heart of a Chief – Joseph Bruchac
- The Mother Daughter Book Club - Heather Vogel Frederick
- The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo Read Review!
- Walk Across the Sea – Susan Fletcher
- When the Hermit Thrush Sings - Susan Butler
6th - 8th Grade Books
- 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!
- All American Girl - Meg Cabot Read Review!
- Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
- Bloomability – Sharon Creech Read Review!
- Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
- Confessions of a Closet Catholic – Sarah Darer Littman
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman
- Criss Cross – Lynn Rae Perkins
- Down the Rabbit Hole – Peter Abrahams
- Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pies - Jordan Sonnenblick
- Everything on a Waffle – Polly Horvath
- Fair Weather – Richard Peck
- Flipped - Wendelin Van Drannen Read Review!
- Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce Read Review! Read Interview!
- Goddesses: Heaven Sent – Clea Hantman
- Going Solo – Roald Dahl Read Review!
- Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson Read Interview!
- Holding Up the Earth – Dianne Gray
- Hoot – Carl Hiassen
- Island of the Aunts – Eva Ibbotson
- Joey Pigza Loses Control – Jack Gantos
- Kira-Kira – Cynthia Kadohata
- Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras – Cathy Hopkins
- Millions - Frank Cottrell Boyce Read Review! Read Interview!
- Missing Persons: The Rose Queen – M.E. Rabb
- P. S. Longer Letter Later – Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin
- Petey – Ben Michaelson Read Review!
- Pobby and Dingan - Ben Rice
- Remember Me to Harold Square - Paula Danziger Read Review!
- Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson Read Review!
- Stolen Voices: A Collection of Young People's War Diaries - Melanie Challenger and Zlata Filipovic Read Review! Read Interview!
- Story Time – Edward Bloor
- Tangerine – Edward Bloor
- Time Stops for No Mouse – Michael Hoeye
- The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer Read Review!
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles – Julie Andrews Edwards Read Review!
- The Not So Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen – Mitali Perkins
- The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood – Ann Brashares
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Sisterhoood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
- The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas – Paul Zindel
- Uglies - Schott Westerfeld Read Review!
- Walter, The Story of a Rat - Barbara Wersba/Illustrated by Donna Diamond Read Review!
- Weedflower - Cynthia Kadohata Read Review!
- Zlata’s Diary – Zlata Fillipovic Read Review! Read Interview!
9th - 12th Grade Books
- A Certain Slant of Light – Laura Whitcomb Read Interview!
- A Matter of Profit – Hilari Bell
- All But My Life: A Memoir - Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Awesome Plays for Teens and Tweens - Playwright Christina Hamlett Read Review!
- Biting the Moon – Martha Grimes
- Driver's Ed - Caroline B. Cooney Read Review!
- Firestarters, 100 Job Profiles to Inspire Young Women - Kelly Beatty and Dale Salvaggio Bradshaw Read Review! Read Interview
- Girls for Breakfast – Jimmy Woo
- Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
- I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak Read Interview!
- In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez Read Review!
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- Light Years – Tammar Stein
- Movie Girl - Christina Hamlett Read Review!
- Ready or Not – Meg Cabot
- Red: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up Their Lives Today - edited by Amy Goldwasser Read Review!
- Search of the Moon King’s Daughter – Linda Holeman
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Adrian Mole Diaries – Sara Thompson
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Read Review! Read Interview!
- The First Part Last – Angela Johnson
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- The Pearl – John Steinbeck
- The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd Read Review!
- West With the Night – Beryl Markham Read Review!
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction for 4th - 5th Grade Readers
- Bat 6 - Virginia Euwer Wollf
- Boston Jane - Jennifer Holm
- Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes
- Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson
- Our Only May Amelia - Jennifer Holm
- Walk Across the Sea - Susan Fletcher
- Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
Historical Fiction for 5th - 8th Grade Readers
- A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck Read Review!
- A Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck
- Fair Weather - Richard Peck
- Here Lies the Librarian - Richard Peck
- Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata
- Petey - Ben Michaelson
- The Teacher's Funeral - Richard Peck
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi
Historical Fiction for 9th - 12th Grade Readers
- A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
- In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez Read Review!
- The Crucible - Arthur Miller
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The River Between Us - Richard Peck
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd Read Review!
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Wild Life - Molly Gloss
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