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The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a series of children's novels written by Heather Vogel Frederick. The books center around the lives of five different preteens, and eventually teenage girls who become best friends because of the book club that their mothers start. The girls live in a slightly fictionalized Concord, Massachusetts.

Emma Jane Hawthorne - A bookworm whose mother is the local librarian, and whose father is a published author, Emma starts off the series shy and reserved. Later on she takes up ice skating and bonds with her coach, while also dating Stewart Chadwick and practicing writing. She is the primary focus of the fourth book in the series, Pies and Prejudice.

Jessica Joy Delaney - The brains of the group and Emma's best friend, Jess is a hardworking girl. Jess's family owns Half Moon Farm and is riddled with financial problems. Her mother is an actress who returns to work on the farm when it causes a rift between her and the family. Later in the series, Jess begins attending a local boarding school on an academic scholarship, and dates Emma's popular older brother Darcy. The second book in the series, Much Ado About Anne, is mainly about her.