One Mom's Favorites for Kids' Book Clubs
An experienced book club mom recommends books for children from first through sixth grade.
Regina Neu, an experienced book club mom in California, suggests the following titles, which her mother-child book club enjoyed:
First Grade
Henry and Mudge (Any title in the series), by Cynthia Rylant and Suçie Stevenson, Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1996
Harry & The Lady Next Door by Gene Zion, HarperTrophy, 1978
Beans Baker Number Five by Richard Torrey, Sagebrush, 2001
The Case of the Cat's Meow by Crosby Bonsall,
HarperTrophy, 1978
Blue Ribbon Blues by Jerry Spinelli, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1998
Meet Kirsten American Girl (American Girls Collection) by Janet Beeler Shaw,
American Girl, 1990
Puppies in the Pantry — Animal Ark Series by Lucy Daniels, Scholasatic Paperbacks, 1998
Junie B. Jones (Any Title) by Barbara Parks, Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001
Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House #4) by Mary Pope Osborne, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1994
Dolphin by Robert Morris, Scholastic, 1975
Little Sure Shot: The Story of Annie Oakley by Stephanie Spinner, Bt Bound, 1999
Scooby-doo 8x8 : Scooby-doo And The Opera Ogre by Jesse Leon McCann,
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001
The Runaway Racehorse by Ron Roy, Random House Books for Young Readers, 2002
Second Grade
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald, Candlewick, 2002
Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The: Room of Doom - Chapter Book #3 by M.C. King, Disney Press, 2006
Bailey School Kids Holiday Special: Leprechauns Don't Play Fetch by
Debbie Dadey, Scholastic Paperbacks 2003
Mad Science Series by Kathy Burkett, Scholastic Paperbacks, 2003
Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, 1963
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems by Ashley Bryan, Aladdin, 1996
Tree Girl by T.A. Barron, Philomel, 2001
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary, HarperTrophy, 1990
Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall) by Patricia McLachlan, HarperTrophy, 2002
Third Grade
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, Puffin Books, 1982
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, The Chicken House, 2003
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes, Oxford University Press, 2004
Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow,
Aladdin, 2001
Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul by Jack Canfield, HCI, 1998
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements, Aladdin, 2004
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, HarperFestival, 2003
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett,
HarperTrophy, 1987
Report Card by Andrew Clements, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2004
Poppy by Avi, HarperTrophy, 1999
Fourth Grade
Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville, Aladdin, 1992
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, The Chicken House, 2004
The School Story by Andrew Clements, Aladdin, 2002
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) by C.S. Lewis, Collier Books, 1972
Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005
Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005
Magic By the Lake by Edward Eager, Harcourt Children's Books, 1999
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech, HarperTrophy, 2004
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech, HarperTrophy, 1997
Fifth Grade
Jane Eyre (Step into Classics) by Charlotte Bronte, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997
Fifth Grade Fever by Michele Granger, Puffin, 1998
Stowaway by Karen Hesse, Aladdin, 2002
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Yearling, 1986
Act I, Act II Act Normal by Martha Weston, Roaring Brook, 2003
Nancy Drew (Any Title) by Carolyn G. Keene,
Grosset & Dunlap, 1947
Blister by Susan Shreve, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001
The Cay by Theodore Taylor, Yearling, 2002
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, Yearling, 2006
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary by Rian Verhoeven,
Puffin Reprint, 1995
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Del Rey, 1987
Sixth Grade
Smith by Leon Garfield, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Yearling, 1973
Sammy Keyes & the Sisters of Mercy by Wendelin Van Draanen,
Live Oak Media, 2003
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 2000
Caught By the Sea: My Life on Boats Gary Paulsen, Laurel Leaf, 2003
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman, Laurel Leaf, 1988
The Ghost Wore Gray by Bruce Coville, Yearling, 1988
Ties That Bind Ties That Break by Lensy Namioka, Laurel Leaf, 2000
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg, Aladdin, 2002
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz,
Putnam Juvenile, 2002
Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan, HarperCollins, 2004
Flush by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005
Going For the Record by Julie Swanson, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2004
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer, Puffin, 1998
May 2006
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