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Stories About Sisters

Although I love my three brothers, I've always imagined what it would be like to have a sister. I've loved reading stories about sisters for as long as I can remember. These sister stories are sure to please, whether you have a sister (or two or more) or dream about what it would be like to have a sister--like me!

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  • On a poor farm surrounded by marshlands, six sisters -- Grace, Willa, Freya, and triplets Deedee, Darcy, and Dolly -- live in fear of their father and the superstition that haunts him: The Curse of the Six Daughters.
    Book, 2023New York : Chicken House, Scholastic Inc., 2023. — Ju F Str
  • Lulu and Zoey are sisters and like most sisters sometimes they quarrel or mess up each other's belongings--but in the end they make up, because they are always sisters.
    Picture Book, 2022Philadelphia : Running Press Kids, 2022. — Ju E Fin
  • Beatrice likes the dark but her sister Roo likes the light, and while neither sister understands the other's preference, they both love each other.
    Picture Book, 2022Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2022. — Ju E Tuc
  • During a road trip, thirteen-year-old Olivia, a budding photographer, tries to recreate a Treasure Hunt she once shared with her sixteen-year-old sister, Ruth, while watching for signs that Ruth's depression is back.
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — Ju F All
  • Even and Odd are sisters who share magic. Lately, though, it seems like that's the only thing they have in common. Odd doesn't like magic, and Even practices it every chance she gets, dreaming of the day she'll be ready to be a hero. When the hidden…
    Book, 2021New York, New York : Clarion Books, ©2021. — Ju F Dur
  • Milly and big sister Becca are members of the Midnight Club. And tonight is Milly’s first outing! At exactly midnight, Milly wakes her sister. With Becca leading the way, they tiptoe along the shadowy hall and down the creaky stairs. There’s so much…
    Picture Book, 2021Toronto : Owlkids Books, 2021. — Ju E Got
  • Graphic Novel. Twins Maureen and Francine try to distinguish themselves for the first time by pursing separate interests at the beginning of the sixth grade.
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020. — Ju 741.5 Joh
  • A long rainy stretch during spring break has Nina restless and hungry for a new project and aggravated with little sister Kavita's embarrassing behavior. A fresh pile of dirt just delivered to the neighbor's house for a landscaping project ends up…
    Book, 2020Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Publishing Company Incorporated, [2020] — Ju F She
  • A contemporary update of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women which follows the Muslim, Pakistani-American Mizra family of Atlanta.
    Book, 2019New York : Salaam Reads, [2019] — Ju F Kha
  • When they are separated for the first time since birth, Iris and Lark struggle with insecurities over their individual identities at the same time things begin to go missing around town.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — Ju F Urs
  • Alix and her older sister, Jools, have never been to the ocean. When their parents take them to spend a week by the shore, Alix is nervous about leaving home--but excited, too. At the beach, the sisters make friends, go exploring, and have…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, 2018. — Ju F Per
  • Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — Ju F Kel
  • Nature-loving sisters Maple and Willow smooth over a rough patch in their friendship in their own unique way.
    Picture Book, 2014New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), ©2014. — Ju E NIC
  • Graphic Novel. Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't…
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2014. — Ju 741.5 TEL
  • Twin sisters who already compete for their mother's attention have an especially hard time after their baby sister is born.
    Picture Book, 2014New York : Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2014. — Ju E Yum
  • In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a…
    Book, 2010New York, NY : Amistad, [2010] — JU F Wil
  • The Penderwicks

    a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

    Birdsall, Jeanne,
    While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. First in a series.
    Book, 2005New York : Knopf, [2005] — Ju F Bir
  • Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
    Book, 2004New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2004] — Ju F Kad
  • When brave Sheila Rae, who usually looks out for her sister Louise, becomes lost and scared one day, Louise comes to the rescue.
    Picture Book, 1987New York : Greenwillow Books, [1987] — Ju E Hen
  • Having a little sister like four-year-old Ramona isn’t always easy for Beezus Quimby. With a wild imagination, disregard for order, and an appetite for chaos, Ramona makes it hard for Beezus to be the responsible older sister she knows she ought to…
    Book, 1955New York : Morrow, [1955] — Ju F Cle