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| Andrea at the Rosamond Branch Library will be reading Making a Friend by Tammy Sauer and illustrated by Alison Friend. |
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Stick and Stone by Beth FerryStick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed. |
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Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury by Arnold LobelA single-volume anthology by the creator of the Caldecott Medal-winning fables includes Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year and Days with Frog and Toad.
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Art & Max by David WiesnerDraws on diverse influences from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and the work of Salvador Dali to present a tale that follows themes of friendship and creativity, as a pair of lizards with different levels of painting expertise share an exciting journey through various artistic media. By the Caldecott Medal-winning author of Tuesday.
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Be a Friend by Salina YoonDennis is an ordinary boy who expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Some children do show-and-tell. Dennis mimes his. Some children climb trees. Dennis is happy to BE a tree... But being a mime can be lonely. It isn't until Dennis meets a girl named Joy that he discovers the power of friendship--and how special he truly is!
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A Day so Gray by Marie LambaA winter's day is transformed from bleak to beautiful by warm friendship and a new perspective in a gentle story that encourages the appreciation and celebration of cozy pleasures and quiet joys.
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The Forever Tree by Tereasa SurrattAn uplifting tale based on a true story from Wisconsin depicts how animal and human neighbors band together to save a sick tree that has been a home, a location for a shady swing and a hosting site for community gatherings.
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Books For Adults About Friendship
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanA curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship. |
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Big Friendship : How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou SowThe feminist hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast argue that close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can have, sharing strategies for creating fulfilling, long-term relationships with friends. |
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Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca WellsSiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play, she yearns to revisit her childhood and mend her relationship with her mother. |
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Cat's Eye by Margaret Eleanor AtwoodA national best-seller first published in 1989 tells the story of a controversial painter who struggles to come to terms with the betrayals of her childhood and her identity as a daughter, lover, artist, and woman.
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A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily MidorikawaMale literary friendships are the stuff of legend. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong. Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always - until now - tantalizingly consigned to the shadows. |
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Where The Heart Isby Billie LettsPregnant, overweight, and convinced about her inherent bad luck, Novalee Nation hopes for a new life in a new state with her boyfriend but is dumped along the way in Oklahoma, where she finds her spirit renewed.
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