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4) Eli the Good
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.
6) Wave
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
Author
Series
The Darlings volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three fourteen-year-old best friends experience the joys and heartbreaks of first love.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a television executive signs Long Island sixteen-year-old Charlie and her three best friends to be the stars of a new reality television show, their lives are suddenly not the same.
9) Accomplice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.
10) Gifted
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Arrogant, mentally gifted George Clark has dreaded the eighth-grade class camping trip and its inevitable bullying, but a hurricane and a friend's loyalty make him realize what is important in life.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After sacrificing their childhoods, Grace, Leigh, Camille, Wilhelmina, and Monica are competing in the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, after which their lives will change forever.
12) Flirt Club
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through notes and journal entries, best friends and self-proclaimed "drama geeks" Cisco (Izzy) and the Bean (Annie) write of the trials of middle school, as well as their efforts to attract boys by forming a Flirt Club.
13) Freefall
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Back in Orlando for the summer, twelve-year-old Claire has difficulty connecting with her former best friends, but decides to prove her loyalty by entering Kissimmee's Miss Kiss beauty pageant.
15) Water balloon
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is already as precarious as an overfull water balloon when a cute boy enters the picture.
16) You wish
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Kayla McHenry's life is transformed when a wish on her sixteenth birthday comes true--along with all of her previous birthday wishes, beginning with the appearance of a pink pony.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280, 12 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While competing in a bike race with her high school teammates, seventeen-year-old Frances is determined to complete ten tasks compiled by her best friend Stella.
19) Geek girl
Author
Series
Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When she is accidentally discovered by a modeling agent, fifteen-year-old Harriet jumps at the chance to transform herself from a geek to a fashion model.
Author
Series
The Darlings volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Jane, Victoria, and Natalya, who call themselves the Darlings, find their relationship tested when they start their freshman year at three very different high schools.
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