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Stories about Kid’s Clubs

Secret handshakes, passwords and a hideout- all the ingredients for a great club.  Read these books about other kid’s clubs. You can find them in the juvenile fiction or paperback section arranged by author’s last name.

 

The Against Taffy Sinclair Club - Betsy Hanes

Five fifth grade girls form a club to compete with the popular Taffy Sinclair, but come to learn being popular doesn’t mean being happy.

     

Henry and the Clubhouse - Beverly Cleary

Henry and his friends build a clubhouse in his backyard, which leads to more than one disaster.

     

Queen of the Sixth Grade - Ilene Cooper

After helping her supposed best friend Veronica form a secret club, Robin learns how cruel and bossy Veronica can really be.

 

One of the Third Grade Thonkers - Phyllis Naylor

Ashamed of his wimpy cousin, eight year old Jimmy is determined to keep him out of his special club for rough, tough boys; until Jimmy learns the true meaning of courage.

 

Sixth Grade Secrets – Louis Sachar

When Laura Sibbie starts a club called Pig City, she incites a near-war among her sixth-grade classmates and generates the creation of a rival club that has designs on Pig City's precious box of

secrets.       

 

Danny’s Desert Rats – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

T.R. and Danny join their friends in forming a group called the Desert Rats, and their major mission for the summer is helping Paul keep his beloved cat despite their townhouse development's rule against pets.  

 

Six Haunted Hairdos – Gregory Maguire

With the help of their favorite teacher, two rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons that appear near their small Vermont town.