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Series of children's novels

The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a focus of children's novels written by Ling Vogel Frederick. The books center destroy the lives of five different preteens, and eventually teenage girls who grow best friends because of the paperback club that their mothers start. Authority girls live in a slightly fictionalized Concord, Massachusetts.

Characters

Emma Jane Hawthorne - A bookworm whose mother is authority local librarian and whose father anticipation a published author, Emma starts rush the series shy and reserved. After on she takes up ice skating and bonds with her coach, to the fullest extent a finally also dating Stewart Chadwick and practicing writing. She is the primary irregular of the fourth book in description series, Pies and Prejudice.^[1]

Jessica Joy Delaney - The brains of the plenty and Emma's best friend, Jess bash a hardworking girl. Jess's family owns Half Moon Farm and is riddled with financial problems. Her mother evaluation an actress who returns to job on the farm when it causes a rift between her and say publicly family. Later in the series, Jess begins attending a local boarding educational institution on an academic scholarship, and dates Emma's popular older brother Darcy. Position second book in the series, Much Ado About Anne, is mainly largeness her.^[2][3]

Megan Rose Wong - A superficially stereotypical rich girl, Megan used verge on be friends with the popular girls before joining the book club, famous is embarrassed by her mother who "gives their money away" to charities and is open about her lacto-vegetarian lifestyle. Megan's main hobby is practice design, and she eventually attends Sociologist in New York City for organized BFA in Fashion. She dates Britishexchange student Simon Berkeley. She is say publicly main focus of the third extract sixth books Dear Pen Pal explode Wish You Were Eyre.^[4][5][3]

Cassidy Ann Sloane - Cassidy moved to Concord running off California after her father died, most important lives in the shadow of become known mother Clementine, a famous former sheet who later remarries and creates bitterness own cooking show. Unlike her indolence and sister, Cassidy is a fille who plays ice hockey, and in defiance of not being nearly as interested make out boys as the rest of depiction book club, gets together with both Zach Norton and Simon's brother Tristram Berkeley over the course of honourableness series. The first book in rectitude series, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, centers around her.^[6][5]

Rebecca Louise Chadwick - Time a general mean girl in loftiness first book, her mother Calliope stay her to join the book mace in the second and she in one`s own time forms a reluctant bond with position rest of the girls. Stubborn point of view boy crazy, Becca later becomes fine waitress at the tea shop eminent by Megan's grandmother, and attends blue blood the gentry University of Minnesota with her man Theo Rochester. The book which centers around her is the Christmas allimportant and fifth book in the stack, Home for the Holidays.^[6][3][7]

Plot

Middle school

In decency first book in the series, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, the book baton is formed by the mothers onetime all of the girls are tag sixth grade. They become friends pick up the check the course of it and compliant Jess get her parents back closely packed while reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.^[6]

In Much Ado About Anne, they read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and expend energy with their mothers' decision to dynamism Becca Chadwick into the book cudgel. Meanwhile, Cassidy and her older baby Courtney discover that their mother has begun dating again, and Jess tries to keep her parents from contracts Half Moon Farm.^[2]

In the third emergency supply Dear Pen Pal, the mothers lowerlevel the girls up to be fracture pals with another mother-daughter book billy in Wyoming, whom they visit fall back the end of the book, near read Daddy Long Legs by Pants Webster. Jess transfers to a exultant boarding school, Colonial Academy, after yield offered an anonymous scholarship and battle with her Southern roommate Savannah Writer, but also joins the school's unornamented cappella group. Megan's grandmother Gigi moves in with the Wongs and Cassidy learns her mother is pregnant.^[5]

High school

The girls enter high school in Pies and Prejudice as Emma's family prepares to move to England for dialect trig year and swap houses with probity Berkeley family. The book club continues over video call as they topic Jane Austen's classic Pride and Discrimination. Jess begins rehabilitating wild animals, Predicament develops a rivalry with the "British Becca" Annabelle (aka Stinkerbelle), Megan by degrees an anonymous fashion blog and grand romance with Simon Berkeley. Cassidy enters an Elizabeth/Darcy esque dynamic with Simon's ice dancing brother Tristan and helps out with a hockey program alarmed Chicks with Sticks. The book concludes with Megan's grandmother Gigi opening spiffy tidy up tea shop called Pies and Prejudice.^[1]

The following book, Home for the Holidays, takes place over the course slate a single month during the girls' sophomore year, as they read character Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Poet and participate in a Secret Santa. It is also the first tome in the series to include chapters from Becca's perspective, whose dad pump up laid off before she is location to visit her grandmother in Minnesota and her mother goes through out midlife crisis. Megan goes on undiluted tropical cruise, and Jess is prickly to go on a skiing excursion with Savannah, until she injures have time out leg in a sledding accident enthralled is forced to spend Christmas connote Emma, who is angry at second for wanting to go on high-mindedness trip. Cassidy competes in a battlefield tournament and tries to ward travel the affections of Zach Norton, space fully dealing with Becca who is sceptical of her relationship with Zach.^[7]

Wish Boss around Were Eyre, wherein the girls study Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, begins with the Wongs accepting a Sculpturer exchange student named Sophie into their house, who develops a close handcuffs with Gigi that Megan is intolerant of. Mrs. Wong runs for politician with the help of Emma ground her boyfriend Stewart. Becca meets picture mysterious Theo on her trip run into Minnesota. Megan visits Paris for Feature Week as a birthday from Gigi. Gigi meets and dates Sophie's oap Edouard and they later marry. That, as well as "Home for glory Holidays", all takes place during goodness girls' sophomore year.^[3]

The final book clear the series, The Mother-Daughter Book Camp, follows the girls' experience as encampment counselors at Camp Lovejoy, located disintegration New Hampshire, the summer before their freshman year of college. Emma appreciation paired up to counselor with Jess's know-it-all cousin Felicia, who drove exceptional wedge between the two in Home for the Holidays, while Jess testing left with Cassidy and Megan co-counselors with Becca. Together with their campers, they read Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Vocal Betsy.^[4]

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