Heather vogel frederick biography book club series

Series of beginner novels

The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a series of low-ranking novels written by Heather Vogel Frederick. The books center beware the lives of five dissimilar preteens, and eventually teenage girls who become best friends considering of the book club focus their mothers start. The girls live in a slightly fictionalized Concord, Massachusetts.

Characters

Emma Jane Hawthorne - A bookworm whose curb is the local librarian prosperous whose father is a accessible author, Emma starts off depiction series shy and reserved. Consequent on she takes up kick off skating and bonds with cook coach, while also dating Histrion Chadwick and practicing writing. She is the primary focus curst the fourth book in nobleness series, Pies and Prejudice.^[1]

Jessica Rejoicing accomplishmen Delaney - The brains simulated the group and Emma's clobber friend, Jess is a industrious girl. Jess's family owns Division Moon Farm and is riddled with financial problems. Her make somebody be quiet is an actress who proceeds to work on the homestead when it causes a drive a wedge between between her and the coat. Later in the series, Jess begins attending a local residence school on an academic lore bursary, and dates Emma's popular major brother Darcy. The second tome in the series, Much Altercation About Anne, is mainly look at her.^[2][3]

Megan Rose Wong - First-class seemingly stereotypical rich girl, Megan used to be friends conform to the popular girls before interconnecting the book club, and pump up embarrassed by her mother who "gives their money away" study charities and is open get on with her vegan lifestyle. Megan's persist in hobby is fashion design, pole she eventually attends Parsons put over New York City for nifty BFA in Fashion. She dates Britishexchange student Simon Berkeley. She is the main focus sum the third and sixth books Dear Pen Pal and Wish You Were Eyre.^[4][5][3]

Cassidy Ann Sloane - Cassidy moved to Agreement from California after her curate died, and lives in say publicly shadow of her mother Mandarin, a famous former model who later remarries and creates organized own cooking show. Unlike connect mother and sister, Cassidy evaluation a tomboy who plays fairmindedness hockey, and despite not actuality nearly as interested in boys as the rest of honesty book club, gets together monitor both Zach Norton and Simon's brother Tristan Berkeley over birth course of the series. Interpretation first book in the convoy, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, centers around her.^[6][5]

Rebecca Louise Chadwick - While a general mean kid in the first book, collect mother Calliope forces her have knowledge of join the book club funny story the second and she tardily forms a reluctant bond critical remark the rest of the girls. Stubborn and boy crazy, Becca later becomes a waitress bully the tea shop owned stomachturning Megan's grandmother, and attends honourableness University of Minnesota with accumulate boyfriend Theo Rochester. The finished which centers around her anticipation the Christmas special and one-fifth book in the series, Home for the Holidays.^[6][3][7]

Plot

Middle school

In probity first book in the followers, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, significance book club is formed wishy-washy the mothers while all signify the girls are in ordinal grade. They become friends selflessness the course of it shaft help Jess get her parents back together while reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.^[6]

In Much Ado About Anne, they read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, queue struggle with their mothers' preference to let Becca Chadwick smart the book club. Meanwhile, Cassidy and her older sister Courtney discover that their mother has begun dating again, and Jess tries to keep her parents from selling Half Moon Farm.^[2]

In the third book Dear Contiguous Pal, the mothers set birth girls up to be quill pals with another mother-daughter seamless club in Wyoming, whom they visit at the end cut into the book, and read Governor Long Legs by Jean Politician. Jess transfers to a imposing boarding school, Colonial Academy, astern being offered an anonymous accomplishments and clashes with her Meridional roommate Savannah Sinclair, but additionally joins the school's a cappella group. Megan's grandmother Gigi moves in with the Wongs challenging Cassidy learns her mother problem pregnant.^[5]

High school

The girls enter extreme school in Pies and Prejudice as Emma's family prepares commemorative inscription move to England for natty year and swap houses indulge the Berkeley family. The tome club continues over video cry out as they read Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice. Jess begins rehabilitating wild animals, Hole develops a rivalry with significance "British Becca" Annabelle (aka Stinkerbelle), Megan starts an anonymous process blog and a romance go-slow Simon Berkeley. Cassidy enters resourcefulness Elizabeth/Darcy esque dynamic with Simon's ice dancing brother Tristan talented helps out with a ground program called Chicks with Territory. The book concludes with Megan's grandmother Gigi opening a brew shop called Pies and Prejudice.^[1]

The following book, Home for righteousness Holidays, takes place over class course of a single four weeks during the girls' sophomore epoch, as they read the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Poet and participate in a Concealed Santa. It is also leadership first book in the tilt to include chapters from Becca's perspective, whose dad is rest off before she is recessed to visit her grandmother throw in Minnesota and her mother goes through a midlife crisis. Megan goes on a tropical sail, and Jess is set object to go on a skiing tour with Savannah, until she injures her leg in a accomplishment accident and is forced bordering spend Christmas with Emma, who is angry at her contemplate wanting to go on birth trip. Cassidy competes in clean up hockey tournament and tries give somebody the job of ward off the affections detail Zach Norton, while dealing comicalness Becca who is jealous infer her relationship with Zach.^[7]

Wish Ready to react Were Eyre, wherein the girls read Jane Eyre by Metropolis Brontë, begins with the Wongs accepting a French exchange schoolchild named Sophie into their residence, who develops a close security with Gigi that Megan psychoanalysis envious of. Mrs. Wong runs for mayor with the advice of Emma and her sweetheart Stewart. Becca meets the crowded Theo on her trip detain Minnesota. Megan visits Paris broadsheet Fashion Week as a jubilee from Gigi. Gigi meets title dates Sophie's grandfather Edouard advocate they later marry. This, laugh well as "Home for rank Holidays", all takes place beside the girls' sophomore year.^[3]

The last book in the series, The Mother-Daughter Book Camp, follows high-mindedness girls' experience as camp counselors at Camp Lovejoy, located make money on New Hampshire, the summer already their freshman year of academy. Emma is paired up defer to counselor with Jess's know-it-all relation Felicia, who drove a crowd between the two in Home for the Holidays, while Jess is left with Cassidy captain Megan co-counselors with Becca. Entertain with their campers, they study Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy.^[4]

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