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Wolfpack
By Amelia Brunskill. 2023
This shocking, suspenseful novel about a group of teenage girls living in a cult reveals the terrifying paranoia and suspicion…
that emerges when one of them goes missing– perfect for fans of We Were Liars. Nine girls bound together in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood, a refuge from an unsafe world. Then there are eight one of them gone — departed with no warning. Did this member of their pack stray willingly, or did something more sinister occur? The girls seek answers not knowing if they should be angry or frightened or perhaps, they should be both.Reaching for sun
By Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. 2007
Josie, born with cerebral palsy, lives with her mother and grandmother, who both love gardening. When a lonely boy, Jordan,…
moves in nearby, he and Josie relate through their interest in nature, and Josie makes her first friend. For grades 4-7. Schneider Family Book Award. 2007Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess
By Shari Green. 2017
A novel in verse. Sixth-grader Macy, who is deaf, expects disaster when she is sent to help elderly neighbor Iris…
pack for a move to an assisted-living home. To her surprise, Iris soon becomes a firm friend who helps Macy face her own major life changes. For grades 4-7. 2017Best friends: poems
1986
The friendly four
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist. 2006
Drummond, called Drum, worries that he'll have a bummer summer, but then a new girl, Dorene, moves in down the…
street. The two meet Louis and the three meet Rae. Now the four friends share vacation fun. A story in free-verse poetry. For grades K-3. 2006I like you, if you like me: poems of friendship
By Myra Cohn Livingston. 1987
An anthology of ninety short poems about the ups, downs, and importance of friends and friendship. Included are selections by…
Carl Sandberg, Langston Hughes, and Karla Kushin, as well as anonymous autograph verses, folk songs, and poems from other countries. For grades 5-8Gina
By Bernard Waber. 1995
When Gina moves to a new apartment in Queens, New York, she looks forward to making new friends. But there…
is a big problem: there are no girls Gina's age, and the boys don't want to play with a girl. That is, until Gina shows them she can throw a ball. For grades K-3This full house (Make Lemonade Trilogy)
By Virginia Euwer Wolff. 2009
Seventeen-year-old LaVaughn advances her plans for college by accepting admission into a women-in-medical-science program and befriending her mentor, Dr. Moore.…
Although LaVaughn helps her friend Jolly solve Jolly's mysterious past, LaVaughn's academic future becomes uncertain. Sequel to True Believer (DB 52298). For senior high and older readers. 2009Only on the Weekends
By Dean Atta. 2022
From the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful—and sometimes…
painful—fallout of pursuing the love we deserve. The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli.Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic—likely a hazard of growing up on film sets thanks to his father’s job. Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can’t believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too. But when Mack’s father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be. It’s awful to be so far away from Karim, and it’s made worse by the fact that Karim can be so hard to read.Then Mack meets actor Finlay on set, and the world turns upside down again. Fin seems fearless—and his confidence could just be infectious. Award-winning author Dean Atta crafts a beautifully nuanced and revelatory story in verse about the exquisite highs and lows of first love and self-discovery.Fix
By J. Albert Mann. 2021
In this gritty, heart-wrenching mystery, prose and verse mix to explores themes of disability, pain, belonging, loss, addiction, and friendship.Everything…
was fine before. When Eve and Lidia could hide their physical differences inside goofy Burger Hut costumes. When Lidia shook Eve up and Eve made Lidia laugh. When Lidia was there. Everything is different now. Cut open . . . rearranged . . . stapled shut, Eve is left alone to recover in a world of pain and a body she no longer recognizes. Her only companions being a bottle of Roxanol and an infuriating (but cute) neighbor, Eve strikes up a relationship—and makes a pact—with the devil. Sacrificing pieces of a place she doesn't know to return to a place she does. What will she discover when she unravels her past? And is having Lidia back worth the price? In verse and prose, Fix paints a riveting picture of a teen struggling to find herself and move forward with her life in a sea of opioids, regret, grief, and hope.Miss Emily
By Matt Phelan, Burleigh Muten, Burleigh Mutén. 2014
Known to the rest of us as the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, Miss Emily was a joyful presence in the…
lives of her young neighbors in nineteenth century Amherst, Massachusetts. This inviting novel, written in free verse, introduces young readers to the playful side of an American original. For grades 3-6Listen to my feelings
By Ruth Reardon, Roland Rodegast. 1992
Bruiser
By Neal Shusterman. 2011
Award-winning author Shusterman delivers a suspenseful and chilling psychological thriller about friendship, family, and the sacrifices we make for the…
people we love. Some violence. For high school and adult readersSilly Tilly
By Eileen Spinelli, David Slonim. 2009
If you're hoppy
By April Pulley Sayre, Jackie Urbanovic. 2011
In rhyming text reminiscent of the traditional song, "If you're happy and you know it," presents various animals that are…
hoppy, sloppy, growly, flappy, or slimy, scaly and mean. For preschool-grade 2The pout-pout fish: Illustrated by Dan Hanna (Pout-Pout Fish Adventure #1)
By Deborah Diesen, Dan Hanna. 2008
The pout-pout fish believes he only knows how to frown, even though many of his friends suggest ways to change…
his expression, until one day a fish comes along that shows him otherwise. For preschool-grade 2T4: a novel in verse
By Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9What this story needs is a pig in a wig (Pig in a wig book #1)
By Emma J. Virjan. 2015
Bear snores on (The Bear Books)
By Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman. 2005
On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear. Bear is sleeping,…
and sleeping, and sleeping. But then he awakens. At first he worries he has missed the food and the fun. But his friends help him join the party and he is happy. For preschool-grade 2Clorinda
By Steven Kellogg, Robert Kinerk. 2003