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
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
Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
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
Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card
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.