From BFFs and Bros to Queen Bees and Wannabees, check out these stories of the best and worst friendship has to offer.
Just as Long as We're Together
Judy Blume
Can you have more than one best friend? Stephanie’s best friend is Rachel. Since second grade they’ve shared everything, good and bad. But now it’s the start of seventh grade and Alison has just moved to their neighborhood. Stephanie immediatel
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Rachel Vail
In the fifth book in the series, downtoearth Zoe Grandon competes for the office of class president and the approval of all her friends.
View in CatalogTales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever
Rachel Renee Russell
Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the to
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Rachel Renee Russell
Nikki Maxwell has the worst luck. Of all the schools she could have been assigned to for the student exchange week program, she's stuck at North Hampton Hills, her arch nemesis MacKenzie Hollister's new school. Even worse, there might just
Read More View in CatalogThat's What Friends Do
Cathleen Barnhart
Samantha Goldstein and David Fisher have been friends ever since they met on their town’s Little League baseball team. But when a new kid named Luke starts hanging out with them, what was a comfortable pair becomes an awkward trio. Luke’s comment
Read More View in CatalogYou Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly
Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vastly different—Charlotte lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while Ben is in the small town of Lanest
Read More View in CatalogSunny Rolls the Dice
Jennifer L. Holm
Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also does
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Victoria Schwab
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however
Read More View in CatalogNowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe
Read More View in CatalogMaking Friends
Kristen Gudsnuk
Danielle needs a perfect friend, but sometimes making (or creating) one is a lot easier than keeping one!
View in CatalogWhen Life Gives You Mangos
Kereen Getten
Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret
Read More View in CatalogThe Right Hook of Devin Velma
Jake Burt
Even though he suffers from social anxiety, 12-year-old Addison agrees to help his best friend achieve social media fame while at a nationally televised NBA game.
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Shannon Hale
When best friends are not forever . . . Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group.
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Paula Chase
When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program. Fans of Renée Watson’s Piec
Read More View in CatalogStrange Birds
Celia C. Pérez
How do strangers become friends? Ofelia Castillo is searching for a story. While her friends leave their boring Florida town for summer camps and family vacations, she braces for zero excitement. Lane Disanti would like her whole family to kick rocks
Read More View in CatalogBoys in the Back Row
Mike Jung
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol—a fam
Read More View in CatalogJunior High Drama
Louise Simonson
Welcome to Memorial Middle School, where drama fills the classrooms and follows students home on the bus. Social awkwardness. Mean girls. Hallway gossip. It's all part of life in junior high, but maybe it helps to know you aren't alone. Can
Read More View in CatalogHoneybees and Frenemies
Kristi Wientge
Twelve-year-old Flor faces a bittersweet summer with a pageant, a frenemy, and a hive full of honey. It’s the summer before eighth grade and Flor is stuck at home and working at her family’s mattress store, while her best friend goes off to band
Read More View in CatalogYou Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
Alex Gino
Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them
Read More View in CatalogThe Only Black Girls in Town
Brandy Colbert
Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only black girl in town for years. Alberta's best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie can't understand. When the bed and breakfast across
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