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44+ Of Your Favorite Books About Siblings

This post is sponsored by Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles still a work in progressIn a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life when his older sister is in crisis. Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she’d been doing better ever since the Thing They Don’t Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands. As it becomes clear through Emma’s ever-stricter food rules and regulations that she’s not really doing better at all, the normal seventh-grade year Noah was hoping for begins to seem pretty unattainable. In an affecting and realistic novel with bright spots of humor, Jo Knowles captures the complexities of navigating middle school while feeling helpless in the face of a family crisis. ____________________ Siblings: love ’em or hate ’em, if you’ve got ’em, then you’ve probably got a story or two. We asked for your favorite books about siblings, and you answered. Here are more than 44 great books about siblings.   Among Others by Jo Walton Beezus & Ramona by Beverly Cleary The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren Cassandra at The Wedding by Dorothy Baker Caucasia by Danzy Senna The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Elemental Series (Storm, Spark, Spirit, Secret & Sacrifice) by Brigid Kemmerer Fearie Tale by Raymond Feist First Light by Charles Baxter From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg “Gaither Sisters” books (starting with One Crazy Summer) by Rita Williams-Garcia The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee King Lear by William Shakespeare The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis Little Women by Louisa May Alcott M for Mischief by Robert Parker The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards Montana Sky by Nora Roberts My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Peace Like A River by Leif Enger The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos Sister Salty, Sister Sweet: A Memoir of Sibling Rivalry by Shannon Kring Biro and Natalie Kring Sisters by Raina Telgemeier The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner Super Fudge by Judy Blume Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle