My daughter and I just got e-readers and are looking forward to having a little book club of two. Looking for some intelligent YA fiction that will satisfy us both – preferably not fantasy or sci-fi – but otherwise open to any suggestions! Thanks!
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The Deep Blue Between, by Ayesha Harruna Attah.
The Flight of the Albatross, by Deborah Savage.
I recommend Front Desk by Kelly Yang! And the other books in that series.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Emma Graham series by Martha Grimes
It depends on her reading level, but here are some favorites:
Flora and Ulysses
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
The Westing Game
My Side of the Mountain
The Line Tender (You’ll both cry, so be warned)
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Daddy Long-Legs (Jean Webster)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and whole mystery series about Flavia de Luce (Alan Bradley)
Pax
Nevermoor
City of Ghosts
*Julie of the Wolves* by Jean Craighead George.
*Homecoming* by Cynthia Voigt.
Skellig by David Almond
The endless steppe by Esther Hautzig. A mother and daughter survive WW2 together.