Friendship

Sequel to Clementine.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Third-grader, Clementine has a big heart, a creative spirit, and a talent for trouble.
144 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Book 3 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

Book 2 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series. Two teen nannies in New York City learn the dangers of losing old boyfriends and gaining new ones in the glamorous but deceptive world of the rich and powerful.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee. When Owen was stranded after the 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the motherless hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, swimming, eating, and playing together.
40 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Best Friends, Tsunamis

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home in Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright, a girl from a from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers want to change to a tourist spot.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Best Friends, Racism

British teen, Jess, has a hopeless crush on Prince William look-alike, Ben Jones, but she thinks he likes her perfect and beautiful best friend, Flora.
240 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Funny

Book 1 of the Pendragon series. Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and a new girlfriend. But before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
372 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Best Friends, Monsters, Parallel Universe, Warriors

A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
105 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Love, Mermaids & Selkies

Book 1 of the Cique du Freak series. Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Insects, Vampires

When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Detectives

In the wrong place at the wrong time, Stanley Yelnats is wrongly sent to a horrible correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, buried treasure, and a new sense of himself.
192 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Funny

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
192 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
272 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

13-year-old Cap has been homeschooled his whole life, but now he is going to public middle school for the first time. He is not prepared for the kids there, and they are not prepared for him!
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Popularity

River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies. The stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But when Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, and she's the only one who can help.
368 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Trolls

Sequel to The Convicts. As Tom Tin sails through islands of headhunters and cannibals to Australia, where he's to serve a lengthy sentence for a murder he didn't commit, he and his fellow convict, Midgely, plot their escape.
240 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Boy Bullies

When his father lands in debtors' prison, Tom, 14, tries to survive on the rough streets of early-nineteenth-century London.
208 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  19th Century, Boy Bullies

Lottie Raccoon is tired of being bullied by Grant and so is everyone else, so she gathers everyone together and they form a club, The Bully Blockers Club. Now when Grant tries to bully someone, the other kids speak up. That gets an adult's attention, and Grant stops his bullying!
32 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Boy Bullies

When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
160 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Boy Bullies

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Football, Grandparents, Boy Bullies

In a government class, three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.
176 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  High School, Mean Girls, Popularity

As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
246 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Mean Girls

Nell is a wild child: friend of fairies and piskies...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
263 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Fairies, Mean Girls, Witches

After the mysterious suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off to boarding school in England where she discovers her own unexplainable power.
416 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Mean Girls, 19th Century, ESP

On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and claim the crown that is rightfully hers.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Mean Girls, Princes

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.
128 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mean Girls, Popularity

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all.
96 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mean Girls

Oggie Cooder has an unusual talent: charving. (Charving is carving a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) When he is chosen to be in a nationally televised talent contest, suddenly he's the star of the school, but he's not sure that he wants to shine that way.
176 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Funny, Popularity

Katie and Michaela are sisters and best friends, but their relationship changes when they move from the city to a small town in upstate New York.
384 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Sisters

13-year-old Cap has been homeschooled his whole life, but now he is going to public middle school for the first time. He is not prepared for the kids there, and they are not prepared for him!
224 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Popularity

When eighth-grader San Lee moves to a new town and a new school, he doesn't try to make new friends or be cool. Instead he devises a plan to be totally different.
272 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Popularity

In a government class, three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.
176 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  High School, Mean girls, Popularity

Book 3 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

Book 2 in the Confessions of a Teen Nanny series. Two teen nannies in New York City learn the dangers of losing old boyfriends and gaining new ones in the glamorous but deceptive world of the rich and powerful.
208 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Best Friends, Popularity

As a brunette on the all-blonde cheerleading squad at her new Florida high school, sophomore Annisa tries to fit in with her popular teammates without losing the friendship of Bethany, the only other non-blonde at the school.
246 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  High School, Popularity, Mean Girls

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Twins, Funny, Popularity

Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, causing hurt and self-doubt among the girls.
128 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mean Girls, Popularity