Book Club Books Part 1
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For many years now at school I’ve been running ‘Girl Zone Book Club’– a reading group for Year Six students and a significant woman in their life – mother, aunt, grandma, older sister, cousin, family friend…even a dad or uncle will do. This Book Club is an opportunity to talk, laugh and learn through a shared love of reading.
This book club runs much like an adult book club and focus books chosen are ‘crossover’ novels, ones which both adults and adolescents can enjoy. The book club is for students who adore reading and for those who do not and perhaps need a little nudge in the right direction. This is not an extra class for students, this is for the pure joy of recreational reading and to encourage reading as a social activity.
This series of posts (part two and part three will also be useful) are to share the titles we have read and enjoyed over the past four or five years. These titles will be useful if you are setting up your own bookclub for 11-13 year olds or if you are needing to give your ‘senior fiction’ reading section in your primary school library a bit of a boost.
Titles can be purchased by clicking on title links or cover images.
List One: Book Club Titles
‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ by Ransom Riggs
‘The Lie Tree’ by Frances Hardinge
‘Phyllis Wong and the Secrets of Mr Okyto’ by Geoffrey McSkimming
‘Out of My Mind’ by Sharon Draper
‘My Life as an Alphabet’ by Barry Jonsberg
‘Counting by 7s’ by Holly Goldberg Sloan
‘Wonder’ by R.J. Palacio
‘Louis Beside Himself’ by Anna Feinberg
‘Paper Planes’ by Steve Worland
‘Refuge’ by Jackie French
‘Girl Detective’: Friday Barnes Book One by R.A. Spratt
‘Island of the Blue Dolphins’ by Scott O’Dell
‘The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution’ by Sally Gardner
‘Forget Me Not’ by Sue Lawson
‘Ship of Dolls’ by Shirley Parenteau
‘Caro was Here’ by Elizabeth Farrelly
‘Mosquito Advertising’ by Kate Hunter
‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ by Ransom Riggs (plus sequels)