YA Books for a Mother-Daughter Book Group ----------------------------------------- compiled by Terri Wiest (twiest@city.newport-beach.ca.us) from suggestions made by contributors to YALSA-BK, May 2000 Go and Come Back Joan Abelove Saying It Out Loud Joan Abelove Skellig David Almond True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi Squashed Joan Bauer Thwonk Joan Bauer Another Shore Nancy Bond Signs & Wonders Pat Lowery Collins Getting Near To Baby Audrey Coloumbis By the Shore Galaxy Craze Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis Cuckoo's Child Suzanne Freeman Janey's Girl Gayle Friesen Just Ella Margaret Peterson Haddix Letters From Rifka Karen Hesse My Louisiana Sky Kimberley Willis Holt Toning the Sweep Angela Johnson The Long Season of Rain Helen Kim Owl in Love Patrice Kindl Blood and Chocolate Annette Curtis Klause The Silver Kiss Annette Curtis Klause The Primrose Way Jackie French Koller The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine Letters from a Slave Girl Mary Lyons Shizuko's Daughter Kyoko Mori Both Sides Now Ruth Pennebaker Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star Randy Powell Breaking Rank Kristen Randle Stop Pretending Sonya Sones I Am Mordred Nancy Springer The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Spider's Web Laura E. Williams Dealing With Dragons Patricia Wrede The Beetle and Me: A Love Story Karen Romano Young Used in a book group for Grades 5 - 8 The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline Cooney Catherine Called Birdy Karen Cushman A Bone From A Dry Sea Peter Dickinson Flour Babies Anne Fine Music of Dolphins Karen Hesse Zel Donna Jo Napoli Someone Was Watching David Patneaude A Place to Call Home Jackie French Koller Used in a book group for ages 12 - 18 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle The Summer of my German Soldier Bette Greene The Giver Lois Lowry The Westing Game Ellen Raskin A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Slave Day Rob Thomas