Mother and Son
Book Club
Contributor's Form (list
#218)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Newton Peck
- A Storm Without Rain Jan Adkins
- All of the RanVan trilogy by Diana Wieler
- Building Blocks Cynthia Voigt
- Ender's Game Orson Scott Card (if the
mothers are sufficiently tough-minded)
- Eva Peter Dickinson (same caution
for the mothers)
- HEROES or anything by Robert Cormier but read reviews first
- Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones (for humor)
- IF YOU COME SOFTLY by Jacqueline Woodson
- JUMP BALL: A Basketball Season in Poems by Mel Glenn
- Junk, by (?) Burgess
- Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
- MASADA: The Last Fortress by Gloria Miklowitz
- Park's Quest Katherine Paterson
- Redwall books Brian Jacques
- SANG SPELL by Phyllis Reynolds Nalylor (author of the Shiloh
books)
- Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Jennifer Armstrong
- Sinbad and Me Kin Platt (maybe too young for
the age group)
- Skellig, by David (?) Almond
- Slam Walter Dean Myers
- SLOT MACHINE. Chris Lynch. There's lots to discuss there and
the mother/son relationship is good.
- SOLDIER'S HEART by Gary Paulsen
- TANGERINE by Edward Bloor
- Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
- The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
- THE HOUSE ON HOUND HILL by Maggie Prince
- The Moves Make the Man Bruce Brooks
- THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER by Gary Blackwood
- The Time Machine
- THE TRANSALL GAGA by Gary Paulsen
- THE VAMPIRE'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER by S.P. Somtow--really
confronts serious issues.
- THE WRECKERS by Iaim Lawrence
- The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- TWELVE SHOTS: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns, edited by
Harry Mazer
- VIRTUAL WAR by Goria Skurzynski
- War of the Worlds
- Weirdo's War by Michael Coleman
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