So many great mother-daughter book club reads debuted this year. Here are just a few you may want to check out. Click on the title for a link to my review. For middle-grade readers and their moms (ages nine to 13) The Healing Spell by Kimberley Griffiths Little Nissa’s Place by A. LaFaye The Red [...]
Book Bundlz website is a great place for book clubs to check out for all kinds of information. Here’s an article I wrote for them about 12 Great Books for Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. There are four categories of readers so look for the one matching your group.
Today is Earth Day, and to help celebrate I’m offering up a list of books with an earth-friendly story for mother-daughter book clubs and other readers. Operation Redwood by S. Terrell French—Julian is staying with his aunt and uncle in San Francisco when he discovers a plan to cut down a redwood forest. He teams [...]
As part of my WOW! blog tour, I’ve written a post called Ten Book Club Favorites for Ramblings of a Texas Housewife. All of the books on the list have been favorites of one of my groups over the years, and they’re divided into age groups, starting with books recommended for 9 to 10 years [...]
A Mother-Daughter Book Club.com reader just sent in a list of suggestions for books moms and daughters may enjoy reading togehter. Here’s a note from Ingrid D.: I have a few suggestions for some mother/daughter reads—all of which I have read either with my daughter or we both read the book on our own. They [...]
My home state of Oregon has recently introduced the Oregon Reader’s Choice Awards, which let young people vote on the books they have read and consider to be award winners. This is the first year ever for the awards, and nominations have just been announced. While only students in Oregon can vote on the nominations, [...]
The Fantasy First book club is a group that meets in a Barnes & Noble store here in Portland, Oregon. While not officially a mother-daughter book club, the group is comprised of several mother-daughter pairs. The girls are in high school. They focus only on fantasy, and here’s what they’ve been reading: 2009 January: City [...]
I received this review from a mom who recommends this series for mother-daughter book clubs. I’d like to recommend Anne McCaffrey’s young adult series for your 8-12th grade range. I don’t see anything else I recognize as science fantasy, and this is a classic, with a female main character. The books, in order, are Dragonsong, [...]
