Books & Bitәs

Books & Bitәs is a book club for women and girls ages 12 and up. We ask that ages 12-15 be accompanied by a mom or substitute mom. We meet one Sunday a month (usually the third Sunday at 3:30) in the Markham Room at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Farmington, Michigan to discuss that month’s selected book. We eat snacks, some knit or do other handcrafts, and we laugh. We hope you will consider joining us!

A special note to parents of our younger members: The books that we read and discuss are selected by the group. We do not guarantee that a book that we are reading is appropriate for all readers. We encourage mothers and fathers to read the books to be sure they are appropriate for their daughter.

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Our February meeting of Books & Bitәs will be February 21 at 3:30 pm. We will meet in the Markham Room. The selection for February is As You Wish by Jackson Pearce.

Want to get a head start? Our March selection is Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen. That meeting will be on March 21 at 3:30.

Our future & past book selections:

January 2010: Stealing Buddah’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen.

December 2009: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

November 2009: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

October 2009: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

September 2009: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

August 2009: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

July 2009: The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

June 2009: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

May 2009: Elsewhere by

April 2009: Ordinary People by Judith Guest

March 2009: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

February 2009: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency(Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith

January 2009: Paper Towns by John Green

December 2008: Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

November 2008: Three Cups of Tea: one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time by Greg Mortenson

October 2008: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

September 2008: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

August 2008: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

July 2008: The Princess Bride by William Goldman

May 2008: Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

April 2008: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

March 2008: Life of Pi by Yana Martel

February 2008: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg

January 2008: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

December 2007: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

November 2007: The Freedom Writers Diary By Erin Gruwell

October 2007: Godless by Pete Hautman

September 2007: A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

August 2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

July 2007: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

June 2007: The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman

May 2007: The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

April 2007: Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney

March 2007: The Giver by Lois Lowery

February 2007: Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Other Books that some of us like or have suggested:

(some may be inappropriate for those under 18)

Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

The Shack by William P. Young

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Kabul Beauty School by Ohlson Rodriquez

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Becoming Naomi Leon by Patricia Munoz Ryan

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

As you Wish by ???

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Tortuga by Rudolfo A. Anaya

Other Book Lists:

UMW - http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umw/resources/reading-program/?lid=5305&n=308&ccid=176

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