Great Books for Family Discussion
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Books that spark meaningful conversation — rich themes, thought-provoking content, and discussion-worthy topics.
283 books
The Fence
Robin Friedman
The Heaven Shop
Deborah Ellis
The Odyssey (Wishbone Classics)
Joanne Mattern
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier
Jim Murphy
To catch a zombi
Mary Alexander Walker
Tulsa Burning
Anna Myers
Union army black
Lucille Travis
Until the End of Summer
Elizabeth Ogilvie
Until the Last Spike
William Durbin
What's the matter, girl?
Elizabeth Brochmann
Winter Wheat
Jeanne Williams
World War II
Doug Williams
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi
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
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
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Lost girl found
Leah Bassoff
Matilda
Roald Dahl
My lost and found life
Melodie Bowsher
Not an Easy Win
Chrystal D. Giles
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
Kiss the dust
Elizabeth Laird
Prince across the water
Jane Yolen
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
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
Dust from old bones
Sandra Forrester
Frozen
Mary Casanova
On Top Of Concord Hill
Maria D. Wilkes
A Thousand Never Evers
Shana Burg
Illegal immigrants
Gail Stewart
More happy than not
Adam Silvera
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Girl the Sea Gave Back
Adrienne Young
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
Little soldier
Bernard Ashley
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
Feed the Children First
Mary E. Lyons
The sin eater
Gary D. Schmidt
Prince William
Kristin McCracken
The Wednesday wars
Gary D. Schmidt
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Alis
Naomi Rich
Amil and the After
Veera Hiranandani
Barefoot in Fire
Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis
Bullyville
Francine Prose
Emily for Real
Sylvia Gunnery
Eyes
Sakae Tsuboi
Hardcastle
John Yount
Hell's Kitchen
Benjamin Appel
I Have Lost My Way
Gayle Forman
Kendra
Coe Booth
Little Cricket
Jackie Brown
Lost at the junction
Cindy Schuster
Malcolm X
Walter Dean Myers
Moon at Apogee
Evelyn Rota
Mukhtar's Children
Sally Watson
On the fringe
Donald R. Gallo
Outsider Kids
Betty C. Tang