Summer Reading Program 2023

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All Together Now
Week 6 ~ Friendship

Friends come in all shapes and sizes. They cheer us on, support us, stand by us, and even defend us. They are the shoulders we cry on and the ones who stand with us as we face life's obsticles. They are happy for us when we succeed and help pick us up when we fall. 

Heart-shaped Friendship

Andréa Barros

A child discovers that friendship can overcome the challenges of language and differing abilities in this debut picture book.

How to grow a friend

Sara Gillingham

A metaphorical tale imparts developmentally relevant lessons about making friends by treating others in nurturing ways, explaining how friendship, like a flower, requires patience, care and room to grow.

Little blue and little yellow : a story for Pippo and Ann and other children

Leo Lionni

Always together, best friends Little Blue and Little Yellow are so happy after a sudden separation that they embrace upon seeing each other, but when they suddenly turn green, the two friends have to figure out a way to revert to the colors they once were.

Sally and the Some-Thing : Sally And the Something

George O'Connor

One boring day, Sally goes down to the pond where she meets a new friend who is really something

Friendship adventures

LLC Dreamworks Animation Publishing

Sumptuously illustrated with full-color film art, a treasury of storybook adaptations celebrating 20 years of DreamWorks movies includes How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar. Movie tie-in.

The friendship puzzle : helping kids learn about accepting and including kids with autism

Julie L. Coe

When a new boy named Dylan arrives at school and Mackenzie has a hard time developing a friendship with him, she discovers that he has autism and so, with the help of her mother, develops a new approach that finally works to form a special bond between the two.

The friendship surprise

Giorgio Volpe

"It is spring and Little Red is excited to be reunited with his best friend, Hazel, a dormouse who will shortly wake from a long sleep. But over the winter, the fox has made another friend, Brock the badger. Little Red decides revealing the new friendship is not the surprise Hazel will want to wake to, so he delays bringing it up as they resume their games. Bu the fox needs to find a way to introduce the friends while maintaining the special friendship with Hazel he holds so dear. Eventually the dilemma is resolved, but not without a surprise or two along the way"

Rescue & Jessica : a life-changing friendship

Jessica Kensky

When he is paired with a girl who has lost her legs, Rescue worries that he isn't up to the task of being her service dog

Tip's tips on friendship

Sheila Sweeny Higginson

When an alien race (the Boov) invades Earth, an unlikely friendship forms between Tip, a human girl, and Oh, a banished Boov, in books published at various reading levels that introduce characters and stories from DreamWorks' newest movie, Home, opening in theaters in May 2015.

Lola's rules for friendship

Jenna McCarthy

Lola knows a lot about being a good friend. She knows friends have lots of things in common but not everything (that would be boring). Friends are always ready to share--even something gross! Sometimes friends make mistakes but they always forgive each other. The problem is Lola's family just moved, and the only person she knows in her new neighborhood is her big sister Charlotte. And Charlotte doesn't exactly count. Can Lola prove she knows how to make friends, too?

We love friendship day!

MJ Illustrations (Group)

On Friendship Day, the Paw Patrol pups give greeting cards to everyone in town. But when Marshall delivers a card up Hootie the owl's tree, he accidentally drops the mail bag into the yard of a spooky house, and a creepy critter grabs it! Should the pupsask for the bag back? Could the creepy critter become their friend?

The seeds of friendship

Michael Foreman

Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he see snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children, but when he starts school he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends

Friends accept you

Megan Borgert-Spaniol

"Everyone is different. We all have our own personalities, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. A good friend accepts us for who we are. This means making sure we feel included, being respectful during disagreements, and more. Learn how be a good friendby accepting others!"

The push : a story of friendship

Patrick Gray

"When Marcus moved next door to John, they knew instantly they'd be friends. Now John and Marcus do almost everything together. They go on lots of adventures, with Marcus pushing John's wheelchair and John fueling their escapades with jokes. Through their friendship, the boys discover that their unique gifts make them stronger together. Based on the friendship of real-life best friends Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck, The Push teaches kids that people of all abilities have important roles to play and that we're all better together than we are on our own"

Armond goes to a party : a book about Asperger's and friendship

Nancy L Carlson

Dreading the noise, chaos and socializing of a peer's birthday party, Armond, a boy with Asperger's, is supported by the birthday girl, her mom and good friends who know just how to help him face the party's challenges and have fun. Simultaneous.

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship

Russell Freedman

A Newbery Medal winner recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African-American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of the race relations and politics of the time. Includes 70 archival photographs. 30,000 first printing.

Can I touch your hair? : poems of race, mistakes, and friendship

Irene Latham

Poems from the alternating perspectives of two students explore such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners

The kindest red : a story of hijab and friendship

Ibtihaj Muhammad

On picture day, Faizah wears her special red dress with matching hair ribbons, then realizes that she and her older sister, Asiya, don't match like her classmates and their siblings do, until a random act of kindness fixes all that. Illustrations.

It will be okay : a story of empathy, kindness, and friendship

Lisa Katzenberger

"Giraffe and Zebra meet every day under their favorite tree to walk to the watering hole. But today, Giraffe isn't there! Where could he be? Zebra spots him hiding in the tree; Giraffe has seen a spider and is scared silly. Zebra patiently talks to Giraffe and does the very best thing: supports Giraffe for as long as Giraffe needs it"

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