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Read about some great friendships by checking out these books from the Juvenile section of your library.
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Not Really Buddies
by Jan Carr
When Bea comes crashing into his second-grade classroom, Buddy wonders how he and this fast-talking, upside-down-thinking girl will ever get along in the same classroom community.
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Dogtown
by Katherine Applegate
When Chance, a real dog, and Metal Head, a robot dog, break out of the Dogtown shelter, they embark on an adventure to find their fur-ever homes, encountering both danger and unexpected kindness along the way.
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Orris and Timble: The Beginning
by Kate DiCamillo
Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble choice" (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend), and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences?
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Tree. Table. Book.
by Lois Lowry
Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
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Penny Draws a Best Friend
by Sara Shepard
When her best friend Violet doesn't want to hang out anymore, spending all her time with the meanest girl in school, fifth-grader Penny Lowry, riddled with anxiety, wonders what she did wrong, in this story about friendship, feelings, and finding your people.
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Island Snow
by Dela Costa
Isla decides to show her friend and neighbor Tora, who is used to celebrating this time of year with steaming mugs of hot cocoa and snow, all the unique wonders the island of Sol has to offer during the winter.
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The Secret of the Dragon Gems
by Rajani LaRocca
Eleven-year-olds Tripti Kapoor, a feisty "word nerd" from Massachusetts, and Sam Cohen, a shy, imaginative, budding geologist from California, are both miserable at Camp Dilloway, a summer camp in upstate New York. On the last night of camp, they follow a shooting star to a quiet creek. There they find two silvery rocks glowing in the night. They each take one home, and their long-distance friendship begins. It's soon clear that these are no ordinary rocks. They seem to move on their own, get strangely hot, and even take over Tripti and Sam's thoughts! Inspired by their mutual love of their favorite book series, The Dragon Gems, they dub the rocks Opal and Jasper, after the Dragon Gems in the books. But others are interested in the stones too--including the owner of Camp Dilloway, who hides a secret of his own. Tripti and Sam must crack the Dragon Gems' code and keep them out of Dilloway's clutches, all while navigating the rocky road of middle school friendships and learning to stand up for what is right.
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Looking Up
by Stephan Pastis
As the neighborhood she's always known disappears around her, making room for fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint enlists the help of the boy who lives across the street to save what's left of their hometown from the wrecking ball.
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Grounded : a Novel
by Aisha Saeed
Told from alternating viewpoints, this story of one unexpected night at an airport brings together four kids—poet Feek, cat lover Hanna, karate champ Sami and politician's daughter Nora—in an encounter that forever changes their lives.
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The Absent Alpacas
by Kayla Whaley
When a group of alpacas goes missing right before the alpaca costume contest at the Maine State Fair, Abbi, her dog, Barkley, and her friends must sniff out this mystery.
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Flat Stanley's Adventures in Classroom 2E: Class Pet Surprise
by Kate Egan
Beloved character Flat Stanley is back with a whole new set of friends in this brand-new STEM-focused chapter book series. In this first book, Stanley's class gets an adorable class pet, plus a crash course on animal life and engineering.
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Surprisingly Sarah by Terri LibensonTold from alternating points of view, this story about friends, crushes, and drama follows BFFs Sarah and Leo as their friendship is put to the test when Sarah wants to ask Leo's friend Ben to the school dance.
This title can be found in the Juvenile Graphic Novel section of the library.
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Two Friends, One Dog, and a Very Unusual Week
by Sarah L. Thomson
When Rani moves into her apartment building with absolutely no one but her dog Otto, Emily finds her orderly existence thrown into chaos by a silver-sequined, sneaker-wearing, rule-breaking girl who teaches her a thing or two about living life to the fullest.
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Only Only Marisol Rainey
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When her neighbor's super scary dog, a German shepherd, dubbed “Daggers,” goes missing, Marisol cannot rest until he has been returned, and eventually learns there's more to Daggers than meets the eye when she finds the courage to face her fears.
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The Switcheroo Rescue!
by Miguel Díaz Rivas
When Cecil and Duddz are flip-flopped into each other's body, they must work together to stop a mayhem-causing ghost, but when the two go power mad, it's up to their friends to step in and save the day.
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The Way I Say It
by Nancy Tandon
Rory Mitchell has always had an issue saying his R's correctly. His former best friend, Brent, suddenly sides with bullies against Rory but then Brent is hit by a car and suffers a serious brain injury, which requires Rory to reevaluate everything.
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Ghosted
by Michael Fry
Larry's got a few problems. In school, he's one of those kids who easily gets lost in the crowd. And Grimm, Larry's best friend in the whole world, has ghosted him. Literally. One minute Grimm was saving a cat in a tree during a lightning storm, and the next, he's pulling pranks on Larry in his new ghostly form. When the two best friends realize that there's something keeping Grimm tethered to their world, they decide that finishing their Totally To-Do bucket list is the perfect way to help Grimm with his unfinished business. Pulling hilarious pranks and shenanigans may be easier with a ghostly best friend, but as Larry and Grimm brave the scares of seventh grade, they realize that saying goodbye might just be the scariest part of middle school.
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Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-To-Be Best Friend
by Dawn Quigley
Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.
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Mind Their Manners
by Herman Parish
Accidentally hurting the feelings of a class newcomer during the annual ice-cream party, young Amelia Bedelia and her friends practice new skills in manners, kindness, and friendship that are complicated by Amelia’s literal-minded comprehension.
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Dear Friends
by Lisa Greenwald
Dumped by her BFF from kindergarten, Eleni revisits her top five friendship fallouts to find out what went wrong and how to be a better friend all before she has to choose a roommate for an overnight class trip.
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