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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