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| Katherine, Aby, Kathryn, Anna, Shea, Katie & Tess (missing Courtney) in 4th grade put on a show at book club. |
by Laura Sullivan
It's been four years since we started our mother daughter book club, and as our girls were promoted form 8th grade to high school, I thought they'd be much too old and bust for a book club. At the end of May I lamented that it might be our last meeting, for said reasons. I'm happy to say, there was outcry and rage at such a thought! So we will continue through high school, and meet on Friday nights instead of Wednesdays, and maybe stretch out our load. Our girls love book club- they love being together and part of a club (and even being with us, I think they might admit.) They are not great readers, as most of their mothers are, but continue to benefit from this monthly gathering in many tangible, and intangible ways.
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| Tess, Katherine, Aby, Shea, Courtney, Anna, Katie & Katherine give us a preview of their 8th grade promotion dresses. |
We are reading Little Women over the summer, a summer read for high school that they chose to read together. We are going to visit Louisa May Alcott's house, and watch the movie, when everyone's finished, of course. I so look forward to what we will do together in high school, and look forward to revisiting some of the classics they will read in those years. Here's a comprehensive list of everything we've read so far:
Girls Book Club Books
Grade 4
The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin and Helena Estes
All of a Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor and Helen John
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Sport, by Louise Fitzhugh
Hank Zipzer: Day of the Iguana, by Henry Winkler
The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Patterson and Donna Diamond
The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
Miracle on 49th Street, by Mike Lupica
Because of Winn Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
Grade 5
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, by Jeanne Birdsall
The Wright 3, by Blue Balliet
Summer to Die, Lois Lowry
Ida B: …and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and Possibly Save the World, by Katherine Hannigan
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Rules, by Cynthia Lord
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Koningsburg
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Long Way From Chicago, by Richard Peck
Grade 6
Shakespeare's Secret, by Elise Broach
The Revealers, by Doug Wilhelm
Flush, by Carl Hiaasen
The Million Dollar Kick, by Dan Gutman
The Anybodies, by N.E. Bode
Lily's Crossing, by Patricia Reilly Giff
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Bloomability, by Sharon Creech
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Patterson
Firegirl, by Tony Abbott
Grade 7
Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Things not seen, by Andrew Clements
If You Come Softly, by Jacqueline Woodson
Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages
Each Little Bird that Sings, by Deborah Wiles
I'd Tell You I Love You but I'd Then I'd Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter
Mockingbird, Katheryn Erskine
The Cage, Ruth Minsky Sender
If I Stay, Gayle Forman
Grade 8
A Million Miles from Boston, Karen Day
Okay for Now, Gary Schmidt
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Ruined, Paula Morris
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Wonder, R. J. Palacio
LittleWomen, Louisa May Alcott
