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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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The Only Ghost at Summer Camp
by Tara J. Hannon
It's summertime in Smithville, and camping in the great outdoors with his BFF Tate is Ghostie's idea of a dream come true. But when their summer camp counselor gathers everyone around the campfire for scary ghost stories, he makes everybody--including Tate--afraid of ghosts. To make matters worse, Ghostie's parents get called on to run the camp after the counselor catches the flu. Ghostie's dream come true has suddenly become a nightmare. Is his friendship with Tate over? And how will two ghosts run a camp full of kids who are terrified of them?
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Bat And The Business Of Ferrets
by Elana K. Arnold
In a story featuring an unforgettable boy on the autism spectrum, Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed “Bat”) is starting fourth grade, and he and his best friend, Israel, want to convince the teacher to have a class pet.
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Skylar and the K-Pop Principal
by Luan Goldie
Skylar is convinced that life for her as an eleven-year-old is way harder than for any adult, including her cranky principal, Ms. Callus. The only good part about being eleven is being a massive K-pop fan, even if her parents do ban her from all things AZ8, the best K-pop boy band in the world. When a freak accident causes Skylar and Ms. Callus to switch bodies, Skylar finds herself trying to convince the world of AZ8's supremacy, going viral in a K-pop dance video, and somehow running her school, all while stuck in a seventy-one-year-old's body. And then she gets the chance to meet AZ8 in real life. With the help of her bestie, Dana, and her own wits and passion, Skylar must decide whether her K-pop dream come true is worth risking being stuck as an old lady forever. A feel-good tale singing with laugh-out-loud moments, Skylar and the K-Pop Principal is a joyful and uplifting story of friendship, fandom, and chasing your dreams.
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Marya Khan and the Disastrous Class Project
by Saadia Faruqi
It’s time for her class’s country project, and Marya is super excited. She loves public speaking, and she’s assigned Pakistan, where her family is from. But Marya has two problems: She doesn’t actually know very much about her grandparents’ country, and she’s paired with new kid Waleed, who is so shy he can barely talk, let alone present to the class. Marya figures if she can just befriend Waleed, he’ll help her make the best project ever. It’s time for Operation Make a Friend! But how do you make a friend? Play sports? Make jokes? With time running out before the big presentation, Marya worries she’ll never get this Waleed kid to loosen up. But after researching a lot about friendship—and Pakistan—she might be able to save this project yet!
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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
When elderly Sophie begins to forget, young Sophia enlists her friends to help preserve her best friend’s memories, uncovering a lifetime of stories filled with hardship, courage, and love.
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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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Welcome to the Island
by Dela Costa
Eight-year-old Isla Verde loves living on the ever-adventurous island of Sol with her best friend, a gecko named Fitz, but when a new girl moves next door, Isla has a hard time keeping her big secret--that she can talk to animals!
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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 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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FGTeev Campfire Tales: The Cursed Campground
by Fgteev
Things are about to get spooky...monstrously spooky! Prepare to be haunted by this hilarious, all-new series from YouTube's favorite gamer family, FGTeeV! It is a dark and stormy night, and the FGTeeV family is headed out to the woods for some old-fashioned, unplugged together time. But all is not as it seems at the cabin Duddy rented...strange mysteries are afoot. BIG-afoot.Yep, the craziness all starts when Duddz accidentally summons Bigfoot to the campground. Before they know what's going on, vampires, mummies, sea monsters, and more are all hot on their tails! Will Moomy, Duddy, Lexi, Mike, Chase, and Shawn be able to figure out what's going on...before they become a monster's next meal?
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