AuntPol Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) My DD and I were tossing around an idea for her upcoming literature: To pair a classic book with a strong female main character with a contemporary/Twaddle book that goes with it. Here is our list: Little House on Praire (Wilder) Little Blog on the Prairie (Bell) Little Women(Alcott): Mother-Daughter Book Club (Frederick) Little Women and Me (Baratiz-Logstead) *To be released in Nov 2011 Sisters Club: Rule of Three (McDonald) Anne of Green Gables (MOntgomery) Much Ado About Anne (Frederick) Scones and Sensibility (ELand) Daddy Long Legs (Webster) Dear Pen Pal (Frederick) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) Scones and Sensibility (ELand) Pies and Prejudice (Frederick) Prada and Prejudice (Hubbard) Prom and Prejudice (Eulberg) First Impressions (Sachs) Betsy Tacy In Spite of Herself (Lovelace) Home for the Holidays (Frederick) **Released Oct 2011 Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle) When You Reach Me (Stead) Road to Tater (Hemingway) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) In Search of Mockingbird (Ellsworth) Also Known as Harper (Leal) Mockingbird (Erskine) Jane Eyre (Bronte) Callie's Rules Zucker It All Began With Jane Eyre (Greenwild) Understood Betsy (Fisher) Secret Book CLub (Martin) Island of Blue Dolphins (ODell) Bronte's Book Club (Gregory) Now if I could find one to go with "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"..... Any other recommendations? Edited June 28, 2011 by AuntPol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntPol Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 We added: Diary of a Young Girl (Frank) Call Me Hope (olson) (I was intrigued by a book called Annexed but it's not appropriate for my DD's age) I've been looking for books to go with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn but not found any that directly references that book. I think we may use Waiting for Normal as a comparison. I've also been looking for a book to go with The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. I have found Miss Spitfire which is a newer book but the character is Anne Sullivan, not someone of today. I found Ferris Beach but it's not age appropriate (icky rape scene). I think we may combine it with Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. It has a male protagonist which is not the norm for my DD but the storyline looks interesting and was one of few books with blind character that seems to have modern appeal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Pride and Prejudice Bridget Jones' Diary Cool idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Faust by Goethe The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Another Faust by Dina & Daniel Nayeri (disclosure: Dina is a grad school friend of my DH's) Juniper Berry by M. P. Kozlowsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntPol Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) Some pairs we didn't use but others may like: Arabian Nights Between Two Ends Great Expectations (Dickens) Mr. Pip (Jones) THe Haunting of Dickens (Buzbee) Hamlet Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet (Dionne) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) The Juliet Club Romiette and Julio (Draper) This Must Be Love (Sutherland) Various Shakespeare Plays The Wednesday Wars Numerous Steinbeck Novels Steinbecks Ghost (Buzbee)*** The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankenwieler and Wrinkle in time also show up in this book Stuart Little (White) Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little (GIfford) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) The Season (Maclean) Love, Lies, and Lizzie (Rushton) Sense and Sensibility (Austen) Dashwood Girls Secrets of Love (Rushton) Edited July 1, 2011 by AuntPol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Wow, thanks for all the combinations---neat idea! I personally love P&P followed by Bridget Jones's Diary but that's not appropriate for dd11 ;) I also love to follow a reading of Emma by watching Clueless :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntPol Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) Down the Rabbit Hole (Abrahams) A Christmas Carol Marly's Ghost (Levithan) *I'd preread based on reviews King Arthur Alfred Dropp series (Yancey) Dracula (Stoker) IDrakula (Black) Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance (Halpin) Romeo and Juliet Son of the Mob (Gorman) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) ENthusiasm (Shulman) -also MidSummer's Night Dream Emma (Austen) Espressoligist (SPringer) Fairy Tales Ugly Duckling (Anderson)/Duckling Ugly (Shusterman) Little Red Riding Hood (Grimm)/Red Rider's Hood (Shusterman) Goldilocks(Grimm)/Dread-Locks (Shusterman) Beauty and the Beast (Grimm): Crazy Beautiful (Logsted)/Beastly (Flinn) Snow White/Rose Red: Shadow of a Bear and sequels (Doman) Greek Myths Various: Percy Jackson Series (Riordan) Medusa/Midas:Dread-Locks (Shusterman) Midas: The Eyes of King Midas (Shusterman) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntPol Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Retelling (not Modern though) Alice in Wonderland Looking Glass Wars Series (Beddor) Fairy Tales Beauty and the Beast: Belle (Dokey) Cinderella:), Ella Enchanted (Levine) Bound (Napoli) Just Ella (Haddix) Various : Once Upon a Time Series (Weyn/Dokey/Viguie) Various books by Napoli, Levine Pied Piper: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Pratchett –Discworld Pratchett!!) Macbeth Lady Macbeth’s Daughter (Klein) Hamlet Ophelia (Klein) Sherlock Holmes Enola Holmes Series (Springer) Young Sherlock Holmes Series (Lane)-Prequels Fairy Tales Beauty and the Beast: Beast (Napoli) Red Riding Hood/Rumplestiltskin/Hansel and Gretal: The Witch’s Boy (Gruber Rumplestiltskin: A Curse Dark as Gold (Bunce) Pied Piper: The Ratastrophe Catastrophe series (Stone) Myths Books by Stephanie Spinner Prequels Tempest Ariel (Tiffany) Peter Pan (Barrie) Peter and the Star Catchers Series (Barry) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxing Hare Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 I remember loving Daddy Long Legs when I was a kid, but I can't remember what age I was when I read it. I want my dd to read it, but can someone recommend an age for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntPol Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 I remember loving Daddy Long Legs when I was a kid, but I can't remember what age I was when I read it. I want my dd to read it, but can someone recommend an age for me? I have it listed at 6th grade reading level. In the Mother-Daughter book club series, I think they (fictional characters) read it in 8th grade. I have seen it on school reading lists for incoming 5th graders and Amazon has it in 9-12 category. I plan on using it with my 12 yo 7th grade daughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Rain Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I hope it is okay to bring back this really old thread. It was such a clever idea. Did you try it? How did it go? Out of curiosity, did you lump When You Reach Me in the twaddle category, or just contemporary? :lol: I really liked that book! BTW, I have a friend who is a middle school librarian. She said the Mother Daughter Book Club series has generated new interest in the classics it features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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