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Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 6
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
129 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.
2) Firefly Lane
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kate Mularkey is thrilled when Tully Hart moves in across the street, and the two form an immediate friendship that remains strong through the next thirty years, until one act of betrayal threatens to destroy both their lives and the friendship that has seen them through life's highs and lows.
Author
Series
Nantucket volume 2
Language
English
Description
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
5) Fly away
Author
Series
Firefly Lane volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . ." Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bink and Gollie's friendship remains strong, even in the face of Gollie's "royal blood," Bink's Stretch-O-Matic machine, and the pursuit of a world record.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend's house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina's friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 13
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.
11) Bink and Gollie
Author
Series
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Language
English
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 4
Language
English
Description
As the Terrible Two face the end of their time together in Yawnee Valley, they are determined to pull a prank that changes the town forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joining the Baby-sitter's Club after moving to a new town, Stacey helps her new friends outmaneuver a rival sitter group while coming to terms with her diabetes.
14) Goodbye stranger
Author
Language
English
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Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
15) We forgot Brock!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Phillip and Brock are best friends, although everyone else thinks Brock is imaginary, so when Phillip gets tired out at the Big Fair while Brock is still having fun, they are separated and it will take a very special twosome to bring them back together again.
16) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Uncle Ted moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xxii, 675, [16] p. of plates ill. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
Author
Series
Princess Posey books volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For first-grader Posey, every school day is great until her teacher's birthday, when her best friend's gift of an enormous bouquet puts Posey's few, home-grown roses to shame.
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