J&A's Mother-Daughter Book Club Picks

11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel

By: Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

The tantalizing prequel to Avi's bestselling MIDNIGHT MAGIC is now in paperback!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... 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

Out of My Mind

The Out of My Mind Series

By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

This special movie tie-in edition showcases a new cover with an image from the original movie now available on Disney+!

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a “gutsy, candid, and compelling” (School Library Journal,... 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 (Scholastic Gold)

By: Natalie Lloyd
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Natalie Lloyd's SPINDIDDLY debut novel, now in paperback!A Snicker of Magic joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!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... 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