J&A's Mother-Daughter Book Club Picks
Our Mother/Daughter BookClub is our longest running and most beloved book club. This playlist includes favorites of both the girls and their moms, and gives a taste of the variety of books we read each month!
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11 Birthdays
By Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
NARRATOR: Kathleen McInerney
FORMAT: Unabridged
It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited---after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birthday they have... Read more »
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
The Land of Stories: Book #1
By Chris Colfer
Narrated by: Chris Colfer
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world!
Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales.
The Land of Stories tells the... Read more »
Fish in a Tree
By Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives listeners an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is... Read more »
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Out of My Mind
By Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
“A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks volumes.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a story that will forever change how we all look at anyone with a disability,... Read more »
Love, Ruby Lavender
By Deborah Wiles
Narrated by: Judith Ivey
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Who is Ruby Lavender? She used to have a fun life, until her Yoo-hoo-drinking, pink muumuu-wearing, best friend of a grandmother up and left for Hawaii to spend the summer with her new (smelly) grandbaby. Now Ruby is stuck in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi, reading to her chickens, sweeping floors at the general store (torture), and being... Read more »
A Snicker of Magic
By Natalie Lloyd
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Introducing an extraordinary new voice--a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten...and your heart sing. Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove the magic away. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all... Read more »
Small as an Elephant
By Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
When eleven-year-old Jack Martel crawls out of his pup tent on the first morning of his camping trip with his mom in Acadia National Park, he notices right away that something isn’t right. Where is his mom’s tent, and their rental car? And where is his mom? Any other kid might panic, might even go to the police. But Jack isn’t like other kids.... Read more »
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Mr. Lemoncello's Library: Book #1
By Chris Grabenstein
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this action-packed New York Times Bestseller from Chris Grabenstein, coauthor of I Funny, Treasure Hunters and other bestselling series with James Patterson!
Kyle Keeley is the class clown and a huge fan of all games—board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero,... Read more »
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
By Linda Urban
Narrated by: Tai Alexandra Ricci
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Carnegie Hall, look out!
Zoe Elias has big musical dreams. As soon as she gets a glossy baby grand piano, she’ll be on her way. Trouble is, what Zoe gets is a wood-grained, vinyl-seated, wheeze-bag organ. The Perfectone D-60.
How will she ever be discovered as a prodigy when her lesson book is The Hits of the Seventies? Not even a cha-cha beat can... Read more »
The Trouble with Twins
By Kathryn Siebel
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Kate DiCamillo meets Lemony Snicket in this darkly comic novel about two sisters who learn they are each others' most important friend!
Imagine two twin sisters, Arabella and Henrietta--nearly identical yet with nothing in common. They're the best of friends . . . until one day they aren't. Plain and quiet Henrietta has a secret plan to settle... Read more »
The Fourteenth Goldfish
By Jennifer L. Holm
Narrated by: Georgette Perna
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Believe in the possible . . . with this "warm, witty, and wise" New York Times bestselling novel from three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm. A perfect read about a child's relationship with her grandfather!
Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer.
Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far?
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never... Read more »
Under the Egg
By Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Chasing Vermeer in this clever middle grade debut
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s... Read more »