Great Books for Family Discussion
Books that spark meaningful conversation — rich themes, thought-provoking content, and discussion-worthy topics.
271 books
Sylvester
Joshua Gamson
John F. Kennedy
Hourly History
Junior Spy
Kiara Kattler
On the Road With Putt-Putt
Shane Ramey
The Story of Anne Frank (Lifetimes)
Stewart Ross
The Storm in the Barn
Unknown
Across 5 Aprils
Alexander S. Frazier, Center for Learning Network Staff, Irene Hunt
Bookclub Presenter
Marilyn Herbert, Samantha Bailey
Broken Chains (Uptown Downtown Series)
Fearon
Camel Bells
Janne Carlsson
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
The Holocaust
Stuart A. Kallen
World History Biographies: Anne Frank
Ann Kramer
Little Big Girl
Unknown
My Hero Academia
Kōhei Horikoshi
Little Women: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat)
Katie Dale
On the loose
Jenny B. Jones
Tomboy : a graphic memoir
Liz Prince
Do You Know Them?
Shana Keller
Serafina's promise
Ann E. Burg
The promise quilt
Candice F. Ransom
Jane Eyre
Jane E. Gerver
Our Canadian Girl Penelope #2 the Glass Castle
Sharon E Mckay
Three against the tide
D. Anne Love
I remember the Alamo
D. Anne Love
Kate
Jean Little
Little Miss Strange
Joanna Rose
Little in Love
Susan E. Fletcher
Millie and the Great Drought
Natasha Deen
Charlie Wilcox's Great War
Sharon E. McKay
Ghetto cowboy
Greg Neri
One true way
Shannon Hitchcock
Pure Spring
Brian Doyle
Thief Girl
Ingrid Lee
Zoli's Legacy
Dawn L. Watkins
Armstrong & Charlie
Frank, Steven
Children of the Civil War
Candice F. Ransom
Epileptic
David B.
Slant
Laura E. Williams
The Fox Inheritance
Mary Pearson
Dear America:My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
Ann Rinaldi
La Canción de Paloma para Puerto Rico
Adriana Erin Rivera
Under Shifting Stars
Alexandra Latos
Breaking rank
Kristen D. Randle
Harriet Tubman
Monica Rausch
In my father's house
Ann Rinaldi
Mustang Flats
G. Clifton Wisler
Rebekkah's journey
Ann E. Burg
A Land Remembered, Vol. 1
Patrick Smith
African American Family Album (American Family Albums)
Dorothy Hoobler
Anne Frank
Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Anne Frank (People Who Made History (Paperback))
Jennifer Hansen
Black Soldier
John Clarke
Child survival under threat
Dominic E. Azuh
Children and HIV/AIDS
Gary R. Anderson
Early Sunday Morning
Barry Denenberg
Elsie's troubled times
Martha Finley
Freefalling
Shelley Davidow
Front Desk
Kelly Yang
Hostage to War
Tat'Iana Vasil'Eva
Ireland
Edward Lengel
Little Hobo
Dave Sargent
Lord of the Nutcracker men
Iain Lawrence
My Dear Phebe
Janet Elaine Smith
My Guide to the Civil War
Mary Kay Hobbs
My Own Lightning
Lauren Wolk
Nowhere to Hide
Kim Sigafus
Passage to Freedom
Ken Mochizuki
Razor eyes
Richard Alexander Hough
So Far Bamboo Grove Related Readings Gr7 (The Glencoe literature library)
GLENCOE
Sojourner Truth
Patricia McKissack
Sylvia Stark
Victoria Scott
The Clay Marble
Minfong Ho
The Fence
Robin Friedman
The Haitian Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
B. Marvis
The Moonflower Vine
Jetta Carleton
The juvenile novels of World War II
Desmond Taylor
Twilight in Danzig
Siegfried J. Kra
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi
Jupiter Rising
Gary D. Schmidt
The Cat King of Havana
Toms Kreicbergs
The war between the classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz
Leaving Glorytown
Eduardo F. Calcines
Shining Prince (Summit Books)
Susan Grohmann
So tall within
Gary D. Schmidt
The little match girl
Jerry Pinkney
Whatever happened to Janie?
Caroline B. Cooney
Dear Canada : Exiles from the War
Jean Little
Dust of the earth
Donna L. Hess
I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived #25)
Lauren Tarshis
Rose's journal
Marissa Moss
The Blackbird Girls
Unknown
The Desperate Search (An American Adventure, Book 2)
Lee Roddy
The air down here
Gil C. Alicea
What Janie found
Caroline B. Cooney
Finding my voice
Marie G. Lee
How I found the Strong
Margaret McMullan
Miles Morales
Jason Reynolds
Sins of the father
Norah McClintock
The best Christmas
Jane B. Mason
A "Kestrel for a Knave"
Barry Hines
Allegiant
Veronica Roth
Angel Square
Brian Doyle
Anne Frank
Dennis B. Fradin
Blume J
Judy Blume
Circling the Sun Complete Unit
Alma Flor Ada
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Ground Zero
Alan Gratz
Lost girl found
Leah Bassoff
Matilda
Roald Dahl
My lost and found life
Melodie Bowsher
Refugee
Alan Gratz
The Novel
Alpha & Omega Publishing
When the World Turned Upside Down
K. Ibura
A Father's Promise
Donna L. Hess
A little piece of ground
Elizabeth Laird
American Betiya
Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Diamonds in the shadow
Caroline B. Cooney
Dust
Christine Bongers
Highland mercies
Gary E. Parker
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Prince across the water
Jane Yolen
Voices of the Civil War
Jason D. Nemeth
Diario de Mercedes
Silvia L. Cuesy
Loretta Little Looks Back
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Pollyanna
Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Prince William
Tamara L. Britton
Sins of the Fathers
Chris Lynch
The emperor of any place
Tim Wynne-Jones
The stranger game
Cylin Busby
Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold
In my father's house
Brock Thoene
Mr. Lincoln's drummer
G. Clifton Wisler
Prince William
Elaine Landau
The Romeo and Juliet code
Phoebe Stone
The beginning of after
Jennifer Castle
Treasures in the dust
Tracey Porter
Unforgettable Catastrophes
Unknown
Dust from old bones
Sandra Forrester
Frozen
Mary Casanova
On Top Of Concord Hill
Maria D. Wilkes
Allies
Alan Gratz
Illegal immigrants
Gail Stewart
The Girl the Sea Gave Back
Adrienne Young
The outsiders
S. E. Hinton
What Was the Great Depression?
Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
Braving the fire
John B. Severance
Cat running
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Grand Canyon
Linda Vieira
Influenced
Sarah Darer Littman, Cindy L Otis
Las Guerras de Los Miércoles / the Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt
Little soldier
Bernard Ashley
These is My Words
Nancy Turner
Where I'm bound
Allen B. Ballard
Let the circle be unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Sour Land (Harper Trophy Books)
William H. Armstrong
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The journal of C.J. Jackson
William Durbin
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
Song Nan Zhang
Deadly Mine
Kevin Blake
Feed the Children First
Mary E. Lyons
The sin eater
Gary D. Schmidt
Los Primeros Cuatro Anos/the First Four Years (Little House Books)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Prince William
Kristin McCracken
The Wednesday wars
Gary D. Schmidt
A Separate Peace
John Knowles - undifferentiated
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Anne Frank
Frank
Bullyville
Francine Prose
Clara Callan
Richard Bruce Wright
Covenant
Abraham Verghese
Decision Making Organizer
Miller
Education, Exclusion and Citizenship
Carl Parsons
Emily for Real
Sylvia Gunnery
Eyes
Sakae Tsuboi
Families Without Fathers
David Popenoe
Little Cricket
Jackie Brown
Moon at Apogee
Evelyn Rota
Mukhtar's Children
Sally Watson
Paul Robeson
Joseph Dorinson, William Pencak
Rites of Passage
Quentin Beresford, Paul Omaji
Secret World of Sex
Steve Humphries
Seed Time (Signature)
Nick Manns
Subject to Change
Karen Nesbitt
The Good Braider
Terry Farish
The Growth of the British Empire (Yesterday's Classics)
Margaret Bertha Synge
The Stone Goddess
Minfong Ho
The dream of water
Kyoko Mori
The pull of gravity
Gae Polisner
China's son
Chen, Da
Marilyn Monroe
Katherine E. Krohn
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Coping with interracial dating
Renea D. Nash
My Family For the War
Anne C. Voorhoeve
Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer
Stones For My Father
Trilby Kent
Pearl Harbor Warriors
Dorinda Makanaonalani Stagner Nicholson
Survival in the Storm The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards Dalhart, Texas 1935
Unknown
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
World War II
Mary Pope Osborne
Absolute brightness
James Lecesne
Little Crow: Taoyateduta
Gwenyth Swain
Rain God
Arthur Islas
Ski soldier
Louise Borden
The Flamboya Tree
Clara Kelly
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blindsind and beyond
Michael Oher, Don Yaeger
Pope John Paul II
George Edward Stanley
Racism and intolerance
Charles E. Pederson
Sports great Magic Johnson
James Haskins
This vast land
Stephen E. Ambrose
You are here
Jennifer E. Smith
Watch me rise
Douglas E. Luffborough
Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
Brendan January
Mary, wayfarer
Mary E. Mebane
A Book of Plays
RINEHART AND WINSTON HOLT
Belonging
Michelle Miller
Bindi
Paul Matthew Maisano
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
How young they died
Stuart Cloete
Mending Horses
M. P. Barker
Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Social Intercourse
Greg Howard
Stealing Little Moon : the Legacy of American Indian Residential Schools
Dan SaSuWeh Jones
Supernormal
Meg Jay
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles
Laurence Yep
Thing That Go Bump in the Night (Fabulicious Day , No 5)
Oswaldo Estrada, Carlos Villacorta
Remember Little Bighorn
Paul Robert Walker
Parallel journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer
This side of paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Square
Henry James
Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln
Ruth Ashby
Causes and effects of the American Civil War
G. O'Muhr
Australia
Jean F. Blashfield
Dust to eat
Michael L. Cooper
Refugee Crisis
Michael E. Goodman
Years of dust
Albert Marrin
City of Strangers
Robert Barnard
The faithful spy
John Hendrix
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaves to Soldiers
Wallace B. Black
The Dust Bowl
Sue Vander Hook
Immigration and Refugees
Heather C. Hudak
Joshua Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
America Pathways to the Present
Andrew Robert Lee Cayton
Egg and Spoon
Gregory Maguire
George Washington Carver (Discovery Biographies)
Peggy Thomas
Harriet Tubman, secret agent
Thomas B. Allen
In his father's footsteps
Danielle Steel
Katz-Cohen
Samuel Astrachan
Kezzie at War (pod)
Theresa BRESLIN
Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
James M. McPherson
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Outcasts United
Warren St. John
The Bee Gees
Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook, Andrew Môn Hughes
White Gardenia
Belinda Alexandra
Teen fathers
Lang, Paul
The dust bowl and the Depression in American history
Debra McArthur
Flags in the dust
William Faulkner
I Came As a Stranger
Bryan Prince
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Hull
Robert Smalls
Robert Francis Kennedy
Christopher Reeve
Margaret L. Finn
Life under the Taliban
Gail Stewart
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Wukovits
The Last Stand
Nathaniel Philbrick
Australia
John F. Grabowski
African American civil rights movement
World Book, Inc
Forbidden love
Gary B. Nash
Latinos in the struggle for equal education
James D. Cockcroft