Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs

This book really sparks creativity for kids or adults.

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Sometimes kids working through mental health issues and gender identity questions need to see characters like them in a book. Donna Gephart handles both issues sensitively and in a way that can help friends and family understand what their loved ones are experiencing.

Book Review: Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart For all of Timothy McGrother’s life the world has seen him as a boy. But inside Tim knows she’s a girl born with boy parts. Her best friend encourages her to introduce the world to Lily Jo McGrothe…

I loved this story (based on a real-life camp in Texas for German prisoners of war during WWII) about a young girl who practices magic tricks and tries to make friends when her military dad is posted in a new place. The bonus: instructions to simple magic tricks kids can learn to do themselves.

Book Review: Abrakapow by Isaiah Campbell What happens when you take a true story of German prisoners held at a camp in Texas in 1944 and add in an 11-year-old girl magician? The result is Abrakapow, a wholly entertaining novel for young r…