1. Book clubs encourage girls to read for pleasure.
2. Books open up discussion on topics that may be difficult to approach in everyday conversations.
3. Clubs provide an opportunity for girls and mothers to socialize together, which is rare at this age!
4. Mothers build relationships with their daughter's friends and their families. This is a valuable benefit at a stage when girls are beginning to spend more time with friends and less with family.
5. It's a lot of fun!

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1) DO SOME READING

Books:

• "The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading,"by Shireen Dodson.
• "100 Books for Girls to Grow On," by Shireen Dodson.
• "Great Books for Girls: More than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women," by Kathleen Odean.

Internet Resources:

• "Make Your Book Club a Best-seller" (Business Week magazine)
  www.businessweek.com/2000/00_33/b3694172.htm
• "Maternal Instinct" (Book Magazine)
  www.bookmagazine.com/groupdynamics/issue6.shtml
• "How Can We Start Our Own Book Club?" (Reading Maniacs Book Club FAQs)
  www.kidsfirstsoccer.com/faqs.html
• Kathleen Odean: Great Books For Girls
  www.randomhouse.com/BB/promos/greatbooks/girls/index.html

2) RECRUIT SOME FRIENDS AND SCHEDULE YOUR FIRST MEETING!

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