Mother Daughter Book Club
The mothers in the mother-daughter book club are Andrea, Donna, Joy (on the floor), me, and Jane. The daughters are Elana, Mary, Gray, Sam, and Elizabeth. Since 1994, we have read the following books:
A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett
SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER by Bette Greene
RISK `N ROSES by Jan Slepian
THE GIVER by Lois Lowry
THREE LIVES TO LIVE by Anne Lindbergh
MANIAC MAGEE by Jerry Spinelli
SUMMER OF THE SWANS by Betsy Byars
PARK'S QUEST by Katherine Patterson
FADE by Robert Cormier
STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES by Chris Crutcher
MY BROTHER, MY SISTER AND I by Yoko Kowashima Watkins
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes
WHITE LILACS by Caroline Meyer
TASTE OF SALT by Frances Temple
IN THESE GIRLS, HOPE IS A MUSCLE by Madeleine Blais
ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES by various authors
HATCHET by Gary Paulson
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
SHABANU, DAUGHTER OF THE WIND by Suzanne Fisher Staples
BETSEY BROWN by Ntzoske Shange
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
ANGELA'S ASHES by Frank McCourt
DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT by Anne Tyler
LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler
ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. Le Guin
CROOKED LITTLE HEART by Anne Lamott
COME TO ME by Amy Bloom
THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES by Amy Tan
MIDWIVES by Chris Bohjalian
THE WEDDING by Dorothy West
THAT NIGHT by Alice McDermott
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
COLLECTED SHORT STORIES by various authors
ANYWHERE BUT HERE by Mona Simpson
RIVER, CROSS MY HEART by Breena Clarke
WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier
AMY AND ISABELLE by Elizabeth Strout
AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES by Alice McDermott
TRAVELING MERCIES by Annie Lamott