Books on the Nightstand discussion

I'd like some ideas for this one. I'm being rather unimaginative right now and am only thinking about the word, "child."

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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, has a child on the cover and I really liked it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

"City" by Alessandro Baricco
"Through a Glass, Darkly by Jostein Gaarder
"Moon Over Manifest "

Fist, Stick Knife, Gun by Geoffrey Canada has a child on the cover and is a graphic novel so will fit two blocks if you're lucky. It's a memorable story of how violence seeps into the lives of inner city kids from an early age.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Persepolis also has a child on the cover and is an excellent graphic novel depiction (again two boxes!) of a clever young girl growing up during the Iranian revolution.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/photo/...

I've heard great things about Persepolis and have been meaning to read it.

Jodi Picoult has multiple books with children on the cover: House Rules, My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts.

Persepolis is great! You could double-count it as a graphic novel, if you're so inclined.

I did some searching for this one and found the following options:
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (the I believe 1988 edition has Scout on the cover)
The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo

Yeah this is a hard one for me too. Kids on the cover generally means about kids. Sick kids, stolen kids, kids who were abused, kids who overcame medical conditions/bullying/gender identity problems/religious mania, etc... I am just not interested in kids.

Think I am going to read White Noise by Dan DeLillo. There's an edition with a car on the cover and kids in the backseat.

Little Bee -

I used Little Bee for my "chosen because of cover." It stood out to me at a library book sale and it'd been sitting on my shelf. I am currently reading and it is thus far amazing.

Sisterland I used Sisterland. It's about twin sisters but takes places mostly in their adult years. No abuse, cancer, abduction ect. There are flashbacks to their childhood but mostly it focuses on how those things shape the characters as adults.

I just finished Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (a Booktopia Petoskey author.) It has a child on the cover. Good book - kind of creepy and fairy tale like at the same time. I definitely recommend it - good way to fill this square!

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle