11-Middle School--Yikes! Classics to Comics Recommendations for Those Tough Years

Want to connect with your middle schooler? Join us as we discuss reading in the tumultuous years of middle school. We share books we loved then, how we parent through it, strategies for continuing to encourage reading, and tons of great recs! Jump into the conversation! Authors discussed: Jules Verne Michael Crichton Tom Clancy Sir Walter Scott Louisa May Alcott Books Discussed: The Outsiders by SE Hinton A Wizard of EarthSea by U LeGuin The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by D Adams Read Aloud Revival List Encouraging Virtue in Boys List by Cindy Rawlins Ambelside Online Book Lists Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by J Kinney Dogman Series by D Pilkey This Was Our Pact by R Andrews Redwall Series by B Jaques The Hunger Games Series by S Collins The Maze Runner Series by J Dashner The Giver Series by L Lowry The Tripod Trilogy by J Christopher The Knight’s Tales by G Morris Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales Series Wrinkle in Time Quintet by M L’engle Hatchet by G Paulsen The Witch of Blackbird Pond by EG Speare Number the Stars by L Lowry The Bark of the Bog Owl by J Rogers The Night Gardener by J Auxier Animal Farm by G Orwell Watership Down by R Adams The Bronze Bow by EG Speare Ashtown Burials by NT Wilson Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery The Wingfeather Saga by A Peterson The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien The Jungle Book by R Kipling The Adventures or Huckleberry Finn by M Twain The Swiss Family Robinson by JD Wyss Kidnapped by RL Stevenson Christy by K Marshall Julie of the Wolves by JC George A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by M Dorris My Side of the Mountain by JC George Johnny Tremain by E Forbes Leave us a 5 Star Review in iTunes and we just might read it on air! Leaving a 5 Star Review is the BEST way to grow our show and we dearly appreciate them! All 5 Star reviews will be entered for a change to win BookFare Swag - namely a BookFare Mug!! One winner will be drawn at Thanksgiving and one at Christmas! Do you love books or do you want to? Are you tired of reading in a vacuum and struggling to find good books? Has motherhood somehow made your brain a dusty shamble? Friend, you are in the right place! BookFare Podcast is here to help you find great books that you will LOVE and a community to share them with, all while nurturing your own brain and helping you create a culture of reading in your life and family. We are Elizabeth, Tricia, and Amanda, and we are here to help you do just that! We’re not academics or scholars. We’re just three women, mamas, and friends who believe in the power of great books to grow our minds and hearts and those of our children. We have all been through seasons when we barely read and seasons when our brains felt left-behind. We have struggled to find the right things to read and people to talk about them with. But through our experiences with different book clubs, in-person and online, and dedicated reading through the years, we have started to crack the formula for keeping great books in our lives and families through all seasons. We love this journey, and we are on it with you. That’s why we started Book Fare - to create a safe and welcoming place for women who care about the content of what they read- an exciting book club that combines FUN with truth, goodness and beauty! So… from newbie readers to seasoned bibliophiles, from beach reads to Beowulf, from new releases to classic literature and everything in between- we are here to explore and curate reading content for you and your family.  Together, we will laugh and think our way through all that good and great literature has to offer. We will seek virtue and values through literature and training our affections one dog-eared, coffee-stained and child-graffitied book at a time! Join our private Facebook group (search BookFare Podcast) and follow us on Facebook (BookFare Podcast Page) and Instagram (@bookfarepodcast). We love this community so, so much, and we know it will be better with YOU in it.

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