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Scholastic Book Clubs • April 10, 2024 TopicsApril Book Clubs Book Fairs books families reading siblings Spring

Stories for Siblings


It’s Siblings Day! Honour your special sibling bond and spend quality time with your sibling by reading a new book! Check out our sibling-themed picks to enjoy with your brothers and sisters today or at any time of the year.

Squished / Coincée

From the Eisner-nominated duo behind the instant bestseller Allergic comes a fun new graphic novel about finding your own space… especially when you’re in a family of nine!

Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighbourhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she’s tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They’re noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room — her own space to be alone and make art. So she’s furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl! Avery hatches a plan to finally get her own room, all while trying to get Max to sleep at night, navigating changes in her friendships, and working on an art entry for the fair. And when Avery finds out that her family might move across the country, things get even more complicated.

Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter have once again teamed up to tell a funny, heartfelt, and charming story of family, friendship, and growing up.

Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time begins here, as a mysterious tree house transports Jack and Annie into a world filled with dinosaurs!

Where did the tree house come from? Before Jack and Annie can find out, this mysterious time travel device transports them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark ― or will they become a dinosaur’s dinner?

Soeurs Jumelles

Maureen and Francine are twins and the best of friends. They share everything: hobbies, food, clothes, and of course, their genetics.

But just before the sixth grade starts, Francine has a change of heart. All of a sudden, the twins have fewer and fewer things in common. The girls are growing apart, and Maureen can’t do anything about it. Will these once inseparable sisters be able to reconnect?

Acclaimed author Varian Johnson brings us this must-have infectious graphic novel.

Smaller Sister

A moving, relatable middle grade graphic novel about the everlasting bond of sisterhood, perfect for fans of Real Friends, Squished, Invisible Emmie, and Allergic.

Lucy’s always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia starts to change. Olivia doesn’t want to play with Lucy anymore, she’s unhappy with the way she looks, and she’s refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not just growing up: Olivia is also struggling with an eating disorder.

While her family is focused on her sister’s recovery, Lucy is left alone to navigate school and friendships. Lucy feels lonely and like she’s always on the verge of messing up.

But with time, work, and self-love, both sisters begin to heal. Soon enough, Olivia and Lucy find their way back to each other―because sisters are forever.

Writing from personal experience, debut author Maggie Edkins Willis delivers a thoughtful, sensitive, and universally relatable story in Smaller Sister. Sure to resonate with fans of Nat Enough and Click.

Still My Tessa

A gently affirming story of the connection between siblings.

Evelyn is worried about Tessa. Tessa doesn’t want to play the same games they used to play together, but Evelyn is determined to find new ways to connect with her older sibling. And she is also learning to see Tessa as non-binary and using new pronouns for them. Evelyn learns quickly that it isn’t hard. and helps others see that too.

Through the course of this heartfelt story, Evelyn reaffirms her connection to her sibling and shows those around them how to make the effort to support Tessa ― with love.

Back matter includes information on gender and ways to be a kind and effective ally.

The Song That Called Them Home / Le chant vers la maison

From the award-winning author of On the Trapline comes a cinematic fantasy-adventure story inspired by Indigenous legends.

One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they’ve arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the Memekwesewak — creatures who live in and around water and like to interfere with humans. Lauren must follow the Memekwesewak through a portal and along a watery path to find and bring back James. But when she finally comes upon her brother, she too feels the lure of the Memekwesewak’s song. Something even stronger must pull them back home.

Les aventures de patate pourrie – le meilleur du monde !

Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges in this first instalment of a hilariously silly graphic novel chapter book series from the bestselling creator of the Narval et Gelato books.

Patate pourrie is a mutant potato who wakes up feeling great, maybe even…the greatest in the world!

But that only makes Patate Pourrie’s brother Patate gluante the grumpiest in the world. The only solution? An epic contest to prove who is the greatest once and for all, judged by the only impartial party they can find ― their small fry little sister. But as the stakes get higher through the muddy potato sack race, sacred hot potato roll, and a hilarious laughing contest, their rivalry spirals out of control. Suddenly Patate Pourrie is not feeling so spud-tacular anymore. Will this tater trio ever be able to determine who is really the greatest in the world?