Read about some great friendships by checking out these books from the Juvenile section of your library.
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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
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 Libenson
Told 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.
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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 Dâiaz 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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Unsettled
by Reem Faruqi
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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Project Startup
by Heather Alexander
When Hallie and Jaye are paired for the school entrepreneurship pitch competition, it's so not a perfect match. Then Hallie tells Jaye her idea for their startup-selling snacks made with edible bugs. Jaye refuses to eat a bug or sell a bug or do anything with a bug. Can two strong-willed girls find a way to come together to start a buzz-worthy business that will make the judges say "bug appétit"?
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Sarai in the Spotlight
by Sarai Gonzalez
When a new girl named Christina moves to town, Sarai tries to make friends with her, but finds that they have very little in common.
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Best Friends-ish
by Carter Higgins
So far second grade is not living up to Audrey Locke's hopes. Because she is not really the best at anything, the other girls leave her out, and even Diego, her best friend from first grade, is hanging out with the other boys. Things may be getting worse, because starting Monday she will not even be the only Audrey in second grade. To Audrey L. (as she must now be known) this is looking like a disaster, but just maybe she has more in common with Audrey W. than just a name.
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Sydney & Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
by Jacqueline Davies
Wanting to see wonders ranging from mountains taller than a hundred hedgehogs to valleys wider than a thousand skunks, Taylor the hedgehog and his unlikely best friend, Sydney the skunk, embark on a tour to see a world that proves rather bigger than anticipated.
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