The Mother-Daughter Book Club

I feel in love with Little Women when I read it many, many years ago. As the mother of a teen age daughter I required her to read it, much to her dismay. She stuck it out and admitted that she liked it more than she thought she would. She is now required to read The Mother-Daughter Book Club, much to her dismay. The book looks at four six grade girls all with different family structures, physical and social attributes, and financial differences, whose mothers, much to their dismay, have started a book club and will be reading Little Women. The author has a great understanding of 6th grade girls. The book takes place in Concord, Massachusetes, the hometown of Louisa Alcott. The book is very well written. I found myself longing to be part of the book club. Each chapter of the book is done by one of the four girls prospective. When I first started the book I was concerned that this would be confusing and cause the flow if the book to be disruptive;but, those concerns were quickly put to rest. Also, each chapter has a quote from Little Women. There are many questions to consider at the back of the book and there are many things to ponder throughout the book, wether you use it for a book club or just want do them on your own. Read it for yourself or with your daughter, you will be enriched by it.

I think that the Mother Daughter Book Club was a fabulous book. It combines the world of sweet Louisa May Alcott's creativity in Little Women mixed with how Joe March helped 6th grade girls battle drama and hardships. When they can't fight their battles alone whoever will they turn to? Joe March. What starts out to be some boring old lame book club that mothers force their daughters into, ends up to be a club filled with life long memories, best of friends, and tofu loving, star studded, book reading, top modelled Mothers! Claire 12 (With moms OK)

The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick tells the tale of four girls and their moms who start a new mother-daughter book club in Concord, Massachusetts. Told through the voices of the four middle-school girls, Megan, Jess, Cassidy and Emma, it follows their adventures from the time they realize they are being "forced" to participate in the club to the end of their first year together. The girls are far from being best friends, and inevitably there is conflict. But what's surprising here is that conflict arises between the moms as well as the girls. Watching them all work through the issues that come up is very interesting, and you may find yourself thinking, "I wish I could handle conflict so directly." The backdrop to the novel is also quite appealing. Concord is where Louisa May Alcott lived and wrote. In honor of Alcott, the club chooses one book to read during it's first year, Little Women; they read only a few chapters at a time, and so they are able to go more in-depth into the book as they go along. The stories relating events in Little Women to similarities in the lives of people in the group tied in really well, illustrating how timeless Little Women is and how clever Frederick is in tying them together. The Mother-Daughter Book Club would be great to read with your own book club, because you can discuss similarities and differences between the fictional club and yours, as well as possibly find things you'd like to incorporate into your own group.

This book is a highly entertaining read for preteens and teens alike. Tag along as Meghan, Jess, Cassidy, and Emma find themselves enjoying Louisa May Alcott's classic "Little Women", while their own lives twist and turn just like the March girls. This book truly tells how reading can bond people together, while at the same time is an intriguing rendition of "Mean Girls", for the younger audience.

Megan, Cassidy, Emma, and Jess are as different as four preteen girls can be. Yet, their mothers are friends and have invented a mother-daughter book club to spend more "quality time" with the girls. The book that they have chosen- LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott. Emma, whose mother was the brains behind the book club, has already read this book and many others. As an aspiring writer she reads any book she can get her hands on. It also helps that her mother just happens to be a librarian. The book club is the last place that Megan wants to be. She would rather be at the mall with her friends, taking notes for outfits she would like to design one day. Her mother, on the other hand, has great dreams in mind for Megan. Dreams that involve science and math camp and Harvard. Megan hates that. Cassidy would rather be out playing hockey then spending time in a book club. She is proud of her tomboy status but her mother, an ex-model, is less than thrilled. Cassidy knows that this book club is just another way to try to make her more girly and she hates it. Jess is best friends with Emma and has fun with her in the book club. The only problem is that her own mother has temporarily moved to New York to be a soap opera star. This means that Jess usually has to go to these book club meetings alone -- or worse, with her dad. At the beginning of this book none of the girls are into the book club and would all rather be doing something else. However, with a little help from Louisa May Alcott and a few other interesting events, the girls really come to love it. This book was really, really good. The characters are easy to relate to and the storyline is amazing. This book did leave me a bit teary-eyed, but it was a good teary-eyed. Pick up a copy of THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB and start reading it right away; you won't be able to put it down. While you're at it, pick up a copy of LITTLE WOMEN, too. There are some fun questions at the end of this book that go along with it and that book is also amazing. Reviewed by: Michaela Pallante aka "Mickey"