Mother Daughter Book Club Lists

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Books to Make You Laugh Out Loud

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

Recommended by Grade2nd - 3rd Grade Books

• Afternoon of the Elves - Janet Taylor Lisle
• Premlata and the Festival of Lights - Rumer Godden
• 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
• Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
• Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Wrede
• Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
• Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes
• Granny Torrelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech
• Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson
• Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
• Nancy Drew Mysteries – Carolyn Keene
• Our Only May Amelia - Jennifer Holm
• Red Scarf Girl – Ji-Li Jiang
• Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
• The Great Good Thing – Rod Townley
• The Heart of a Chief – Joseph Bruchac
• The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
• Walk Across the Sea – Susan Fletcher
• When the Hermit Thrush Sings - Susan Butler

6th - 8th Grade Books

• A Year Down Yonder – Richard Peck
• A Step from Heaven – An Na
• Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
• Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
• Bloomability – Sharon Creech
• Confessions of a Closet Catholic – Sarah Darer Littman
• Coraline – Neil Gaiman
• Criss Cross – Lynn Rae Perkins
• Down the Rabbit Hole – Peter Abrahams
• Everything on a Waffle – Polly Horvath
• Fair Weather – Richard Peck
• Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
• Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Goddesses: Heaven Sent – Clea Hantman
• Going Solo – Roald DahlHolding 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
• Missing Persons: The Rose Queen – M.E. Rabb
• P. S. Longer Letter Later – Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin
• Petey – Ben Michaelson
• Remember Me to Harold Square - Paula Danziger
• Story Time – Edward Bloor
• Tangerine – Edward Bloor
• Time Stops for No Mouse – Michael Hoeye
• The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
• The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles – Julie Andrews Edwards
• 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 True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
• The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas – Paul Zindel
• Zlata’s Diary – Zlata Fillipovic

9th - 12th Grade Books

• A Certain Slant of Light – Laura Whitcomb
• A Matter of Profit – Hilari Bell
• Biting the Moon – Martha Grimes
• Drivers Ed - Caroline B. Cooney
• Girls for Breakfast – Jimmy Woo
• Girlwood - Claire Dean
• Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
• In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
• Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
• Light Years – Tammar Stein
• Ready or Not – Meg Cabot
• Search of the Moon King’s Daughter – Linda Holeman
• Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
• The Adrian Mole Diaries – Sara Thompson
• 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
• West With the Night – Beryl Markham

Historical Fiction
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

5th - 8th Grade Readers

• A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
• 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

9th - 12th Grade Readers

• A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
• In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• The River Between Us - Richard Peck
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Wild Life - Molly Gloss