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Hey Everybuggy,
You can call me Katie. I am an absolute bookworm. I am currently reading "The Mother-Daughter book Club". What is everybuggy reading these days? Any suggestions? I'd love to read some of your favorite books and then chat with you about them.
-Katie
submitted by Katie P., age 9, Chevy Chase, MD
(April 2, 2013 - 6:05 pm)
(April 2, 2013 - 6:05 pm)
I have heard that the Mother-Daughter Book Club books are really good, but I myself have never read them. One of my favorite books of all time is The Book of Story Beginnings. I read it many years ago, but I still love it!
(April 2, 2013 - 8:47 pm)
Sarah,
Even though you may be a few years older than me I still suggest The Mother-Daughter book club. I will go to my local library and check out The Book of Story Beginnings. I also recommend After All You're Callie Boone. I absolutely loved it.
-Katie
(April 3, 2013 - 5:46 pm)
I like books like Rick Riordan's novels, the Origami Yoda books, and the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.
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(April 3, 2013 - 1:34 pm)
I love the Mother-Daughter Book Club. I live relatively close to the city it is set in, so it seemed very real to me. I have the whole series! It is so good!! I can't believe that Heather Vogel Frederick isn't writing any more of those books.:(
If you like Mother-Daughter Book Club, you would definitely like some of Wendy Mass's books. A Mango-Shaped Space and Every Soul a Star are both really good. The Candymakers is good, too, but it's a little... out there. Leap Day and Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall are good, but for older readers. She also writes some fairy tale books if you like fantasy.:)
(April 3, 2013 - 1:50 pm)
Melody,
I am obsessed with Wendy Mass's writing. I agree with you, The Candymakers was not one of her best books. I am dying to read Leap Day.
-Katie
(April 4, 2013 - 5:03 pm)
Oh gosh. Where to begin? Most people here know I love Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, and The Girl Who Could Fly. They're all really good. Other books? Hmm.
All the classics, of course.
Fever 1793
PERCY JACKSON!!!
The School for the Insanely Gifted (really funny!)
Peter and the Starcatchers
If you haven't read these, I DEFINITELY recommend them!
(April 3, 2013 - 5:02 pm)
Oh, I adore Anne of Green Gables! I just finished Anne of Ingleside. I have also read The Candymakers and Every Soul a Star. Of the two, I liked The Candymakers better. Yes, I can see how it could be viewed as 'out there,' but I think that's part of what I liked about it: that it always surprises you and introduces you to situations that are different from the more ordinary life.
(April 4, 2013 - 11:45 am)
@Sarah
That's what I liked about it, too! I like Every Soul a Star and Lepa Day the best out of all her books, though, because they show you all different points of view.
(April 7, 2013 - 11:54 am)
I am going to have to read Wendy Mass too, aren't I?
(April 7, 2013 - 8:23 pm)
My Favorite Books in Approximate Order (Caution: a lot of these are definitely YA):
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Olivia Kidney by Ellen Potter
Actually, all of these turned out to be YA except for Olivia Kidney. These are just the ones that come to mind right now. Also, the rest of John Green, Libba Bray, Jay Asher, Maureen Johnson and Ellen Potter's stuff that I've read.
(April 7, 2013 - 8:30 pm)
I also highly recommend The Book Thief. The Graveyard Book and When You Reach Me are also very good. Also anything by John Green (I haven't read The Fault in our Stars, but Paper Towns is awesome).
(April 8, 2013 - 9:53 am)
I liked Stardust better than The Graveyard Book. I have Coraline on my want to read list.
(April 8, 2013 - 5:17 pm)
I've been thinking about reading Coraline, too, but I'm not sure. I read the comic version and I got pretty scared but that was a while ago. Is Stardust a sequel to The Graveyard Book?
(April 9, 2013 - 6:47 am)