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1) 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
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.
Author
Publisher
Roxane Gay Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it's (really) too late--and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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After an accident in the woods involving a young girl, eleven-year-old Hex meets a mysterious woman who offers him a deal to change his world, which sets off a ripple effect that Hex's best friend Tommo must rectify.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory."--Publisher's description
Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those...
9) Dust
Author
Series
Life is strange volume 1
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
May 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Following on from one possible ending of the much-loved game, Life is strange: Dust, finds aspiring photographer Max Caulfield and best friend Chloe Price struggling to build a new life, one year after the shocking events of the storm that swept through Arcadia Bay. When Max seemingly starts traveling in time without her knowledge or control, she and Chloe must return to where their journey began-- to uncover the truth, set things right, and confront...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline's death. But that didn't stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the girls were never convicted, Joni, ever the opportunist, capitalized...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 268 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Anita and Rainie have made countless visits to their home base: an old sycamore tree and its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and women-headed dogs whose bloodlines knot them together like thread. Anita convinces her best friend Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of their...
15) Snow day
Author
Series
Jo Jo volume 3
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
71 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jo Jo Makoons has noticed that the family members she loves most--Mama, Kokum, and even her cat, Mimi--all have their own ways of being healthy. So when Teacher says that their class will be learning about healthy habits, Jo Jo is ready to be neighborly by helping everyone around her be healthy too. After a snowstorm shuts down her Ojibwe reservation, Jo Jo uses her big imagination and big personality to help both Elders and classmates alike. Because...
16) Milo's monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Milo loves spending time with his best friend Jay, but when new girl Suzi moves in next door, Milo starts to feel left out, and as his jealousy grows more intense a green-eyed monster pops up beside him, twisting up all of Milo's thoughts and making him feel sad.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 2
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fortune cookie convinces Ben he can have whatever he wants if he is willing to wait, but getting paired with eccentric former friend Walter for a school scavenger hunt leads to unexpected rewards.
18) The pirate's eye
Author
Series
Stitch Head volume 2
Publisher
tiger tales
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Mad Professor suddenly leaves Castle Grotteskew, Stitch Head, the Creature, and the girl Arabella suddenly find themselves in charge of the Castle but an innocent game of pirates leads them to a plot by the evil Freakfinder, who still wants to control the Professor's monsters.
19) Forever friends
Author
Series
Drag and Rex volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
52 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Drag and Rex could not be more different, but together they find joy and adventure in the simplest places.
20) Out of body
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
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