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Lawrence & Sophia: Big & Bold
by Doreen Cronin
Lawrence and Sophia do everything as a pair, together they are big
and bold and fast, but one day another kid appears and Lawrence is excited about new adventures while Sophia is not, in a story about friendship triangles.
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Capybara Is Friends With Everyone
by Maddie Frost
Capybara will do anything for his friends. But it's exhausting -- and
when Capybara meets a potential new friend who doesn't seem to
be responding to his advances, Capybara learns a valuable lesson.
His friends like him just for who he is.
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Monster Hands
by Karen Kane
When nighttime comes, Milo has a problem--he's convinced there's a monster under his bed! Luckily, his best friend Mel knows just what to
do--scare the monster more than the monster scares you!
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So Tortoise Dug
by Emmy Kastner
Tortoise and Mouse are best burrowmates, and when it floods,
Tortoise digs a new room for her and Mouse, then Bunny asks if
she could have one, too, as does Spotted Skunk, Mole Skinks,
Wolf Spider and Frog, in a pourquoi story.
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Elvis & Romeo
by David Soman
Elvis and Romeo's burgeoning friendship doesn't exactly get off to
the most promising start when they meet. . . . But little by little, these
polar-opposite pooches may just become the closet of canines after all.
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A Better Best Friend
by Olivier Tallec
A squirrel and a mushroom explore the forest through the seasons,
show each other special trees, build snow mushrooms, share the
good times and bad-which become good bad times alongside a friend. Then spring arrives, and so does a new friend. And then another. This raises a profound question for an overthinking squirrel: should we have just one best friend?
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Mole Is Not Alone
by Maya Tatsukawa
Mole is invited to a party, which is very worrisome. What if the party is
too rowdy for Mole? What if Mole doesn't know anyone there? What if Mole is just too shy to make friends? But despite all those worries, maybe Mole can find a quiet way to make friends.
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Cranky
by Phuc Tran
In this funny story about big trucks, big feelings and even bigger friendships, Cranky the crane truck is feeling, well, cranky, and
doesn't want to talk about it until his friends and honesty help him
turn his frown upside down.
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Best Buddies: Save the Duck!
by Vicky Fang
Through three laugh-out-loud pet-themed stories, best friends Sniff
and Scratch have fun with toilet paper, chase each other's tails and cuddle with Sniff's stuffed duck.
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Friends Are Fun
by Steve Henry
Pete the bird likes living alone on his island, but a turtle, dog, and elephant join him. When a storm rolls in, everyone works together
to keep safe.
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A Fairy Finds Her Song
by Bea Jackson
Every fairy has a talent, except Lily, or so she thinks, but Lily's human friend Willow knows how very special the fairy is as Lily searches to
find her gift.
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Dirt and Bugsy: Bug Catchers
by Megan Litwin
Best friends and fellow bug catchers Dirt and Bugsy gather supplies
and make a structure to shelter their insects from an incoming storm.
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Earl & Worm: The Bad Idea and Other Stories
by Greg Pizzoli
Earl, a cheerful bird who loves playing saxophone, and Worm, a quiet bookworm, overcome their differences with lemonade, creativity, and sharing their stories, becoming the best of friends.
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Captain Cat Goes to Mars
by Emma J. Virjâan
Captain Cat and Pilot Matt fly their spaceship off to Mars, where they make new friends among the stars.
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Grow Up, Luchy Zapata
by Alexandra Alessandri
When eleven-year-old Luchy's best friend Cami returns from a
summer in Colombia and ditches her for the cool kids at school,
Luchy is left to figure out who she is and where she belongs.
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The Enemy's Daughter
by Anne Blankman
In 1915, Marta and her father are trying to get home to Germany
when her father is detained and Marta is welcomed into an Irish
family's home, in a story about friendship and learning to think for oneself.
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The Friendship War
by Andrew Clements
When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her
grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her
closer to one friend, but further from another.
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Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd
by Lyla Lee
Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl
Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but
when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end
up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams.
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Walkin' the Dog
by Chris Lynch
A dog walking venture helps thirteen-year-old Louis, who would
rather kick back than stand out, learn how to be a friend.
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Right Back At You
by Carolyn Mackler
In 2023, Mason writes a personal letter to Albert Einstein for a school assignment and hides it in his closet—only to receive a reply from
Talia, a girl in 1987 facing her own struggles. As both deal with
bullying and isolation, an unexpected connection forms across time.
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The Girl and the Robot
by Oz Rodriguez
Since Papi was deported, Mimi Perez hustles around her Brooklyn neighborhood fixing things to earn money and joins a robotics competition to win a $50,000 prize, and when a robot crashes to
earth from space, Mimi brings it home to fix.
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The Truth About 5th Grade
by Kim Tomsic
Told through a he-said/she-said narrative, this hilarious book follows former best friends Charlotte and Alex as they learn there are two
sides to every story when Charlotte discovers Alex has shared her
most secretest secret while Alex tries to figure out why Charlotte's
no longer talking to him.
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School Trip
by Jerry Craft
While on a school trip to Paris, Jordan, Drew and Liam find navigating
a foreign city almost as tricky as navigating the same friendships, fears and differences they struggle with at home.
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Wires Crossed
by Beth Fantaskey
Teaming up with Tariq to crush the competition in the school's science Olympics, twelve-year-old Mia must build a killer robot and navigate
new friendships and old as she tries to find her place in middle school.
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How It All Ends
by Emma Hunsinger
Thirteen-year-old Tara skips eighth grade to go directly to high school and struggles with adjusting, until she meets her classmate Libby.
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Table Titans Club
by Scott R. Kurtz
New-girl Valeria Winters finds new friends in the Table Titans tabletop gaming club, but when the club is threatened, Val must join the
wrestling team and make peace with her bully to save her new group
of friends.
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Cookie & Broccoli: Play It Cool
by Bob McMahon
When bashful Broccoli's super cool math trick propels him to
leadership of the Cool Crowd, chatty Cookie wonders if their
friendship can withstand this popularity contest.
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Picture Day
by Sarah Sax
Becoming an influencer at Brinkley Middle School after cutting her
hair while live-streaming, seventh-grader Viv realizes her dream of reinventing herself and becoming popular, but at what cost?
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Nat for Nothing
by Maria Scrivan
When her best friend and ex-BFF join the volleyball team, Natalie
feels betrayed and, unable to find an extracurricular activity that
interests her, meets a new student with the same problem and
together come up with a solution.
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Paula Danziger's Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
by Victoria Ying
Reintroducing Amber Brown to a new generation of readers, this
classic story, now in a graphic novel format, follows third graders and best friends Amber and Justin who must figure out a way to say
goodbye and keep their friendship strong when Justin has to move away.
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