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Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.
Author
Series
Cornbread and Poppy volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Cornbread and Poppy spend a day at the Carnival playing games, eating snacks, and riding the Ferris wheel.
63) What if we were
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
82 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Nathalie and Marie have been playing a game for years where they imagine what life would be like as different people or objects, but their lives change when a new player joins their game.
64) Alone
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
66) Kate in waiting
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Language
English
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Description
"Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. Carpooling to and from theater rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy's latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. Matt Olsson is talented...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer...
68) Falling short
Author
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
Author
Series
Rip and Red volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the first morning with their odd new teacher fifth grade is full of shocking surprises for best friends Rip and Red"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...
Author
Series
Toys trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 p. ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.
73) Manatee summer
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
74) Gossie & Gertie
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gossie and Gertie are best friends and everywhere Gossie goes, Gertie goes too--except when she doesn't, and sometimes that's even better.
Author
Series
Big Foot and Little Foot volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hugo is a young Sasquatch who longs for adventure. Boone is young boy who longs to see a Sasquatch. When their worlds collide, they become the unlikeliest pair of best friends. At the Academy for Curious Squidges, Hugo learns all manner of Sneaking--after all, the most important part of being a Sasquatch is staying hidden from humans. But Hugo dreams of roaming free in the Big Wide World rather than staying cooped up in caves. When he has an unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
77) Dear Justyce
Author
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Sydney is a skunk and Taylor is a hedgehog, but no matter how odd the pairing may seem, their friendship comes naturally. They live happily in their cozy burrow under Miss Nancy's potting shed . . . until the day Taylor gets his Big Idea to go see the Whole Wide World. From mountains taller than a hundred hedgehogs, valleys wider than a thousand skunks, to the dangers that lie in the human world, Sydney and Taylor wanted to see it all. With a map...
Author
Series
Toys trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.
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