Making it happen: Creating a successful book club: Ready, set, go: Organizing your group Novel ideas: Choosing the right books Talk it up: Running dynamic discussions Get a jump start: Energizing your book club meeting
Bumper crop of books: Fifty top titles recommended by book clubs Titles for younger readers (grades 1-5): The Boxcar Children / Gertrude Chandler Warner The Hundred Dresses / Eleanor Estes Sarah, Plain and Tall / Patricia MacLachlan Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo Half Magic / Edward Eager Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Roald Dahl Frindle / Andrew Clements Maniac Magee / Jerry Spinelli The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / C. S. Lewis The Phantom Tollbooth / Norton Juster
Titles for middle grade readers (grades 4-7) : Chasing Vermeer / Blue Balliett Dave at Night / Gail Carson Levine The City of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau Esperanza Rising / Pam Munoz Ryan Freaky Friday / Mary Rodgers Hatchet / Gary Paulsen Holes / Louis Sachar My Louisiana Sky / Kimberly Willis Holt No More Dead Dogs / Gordon Korman The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / J. K. Rowling Homeless Bird / Gloria Whelan Among the Hidden / Margaret Peterson Haddix The Breadwinner / Deborah Ellis Hoot / Carl Hiaasen Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse Skellig / David Almond Surviving the Applewhites / Stephanie Tolan The View from Saturday / E. L. Konigsburg Walk Two moons / Sharon Creech The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter / Adeline Yen Mah Eragon / Christopher Paolini
Titles for young teen readers (grades 6-8): Al Capone Does My Shirts / Gennifer Choldenko Flipped / Wendelin Van Draanen The Skin I'm In / Sharon G. Flake Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata The Outsiders / S. E. Hinton Tangerine / Edward Bloor Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card The Giver / Lois Lowry Monster / Walter Dean Myers The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman
Titles for older teen readers (grades 9 and up): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Mark Haddon The First Part Last / Angela Johnson The Gospel According to Larry / Janet Tashjian Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood / Marjane Satrapi
Appendix A: Top recommended titles
Appendix B: Awards for featured books
