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Books About Friendship

From BFFs to former friends to outright frenemies, all the difficulties and delights of friendship appear in these books!

Petawawa Public Library

12 items

  • 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…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2020] — JF BAR
  • At a time when everything in her small town of Seaside, Rhode Island, seems like it’s changing, eleven-year-old Izzy Vitale wants things to stay the same. She wants her dad to start acting like he did before he was deployed to Afghanistan,…
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2020. — JF FER
  • Two best friends separated by conflicting middle-school class schedules vow to keep their closeness alive through the pages of a notebook, and its pages become a lifeline, with the power either to bring them together or tear them apart.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — JF LEA
  • Brooke and Madeline have been best friends since they first met. And now they're going to be best friends in high school, then go to the same college where they'll be roommates, date—and marry—boys who are also best friends. Finally…
    BookNew York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster Children's Pub., c2011. — JF MOR
  • Meg has been friends with confident, self-assured Beatrix since kindergarten. She's always found comfort in Beatrix's shadow—even their families call them Beatrix-and-Meg. But middle school has brought some changes in Beatrix, especially…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020. — JF MCD
  • When everything around you is going wrong, how far would you go to fit in? Isaac's sixth grade year gets off to a rough start. For one thing, a tornado tears the roof off the school cafeteria. His mother leaves on a two month business…
    BookNew York : Holiday House, 2021 — JF FAR
  • "Dear Dumb Diary, So now I'm friends with Angeline. This is automatic friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline's uncle, sending both of them tumbling…
    BookNew York ; Toronto : Scholastic, c2010. — JF BEN DEA 9
  • Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games—or so she tells the world. The three girls are…
    BookNew York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2015] — JF STE
  • Friends. Frenemies. Middle school... The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are. Jaime knows something is off with her friend group. They’ve started to exclude her and make fun of the way she…
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — JF LIB
  • August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012. — JF PAL
  • Felicity’s sure she’s going to do something big. Exactly what is still a mystery, but she’ll figure it out. Her sister, Letty, teases Felicity that she never finishes stuff, but that’s just because Letty is so perfect. Still, life is good…
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Yen Press, 2022. — J GN CHM BER 4
  • San Francisco and Orangevale may be in the same state, but for Héctor Muñoz, they might as well be a million miles apart. Back home, being gay didn’t mean feeling different. At Héctor’s new school, he couldn’t feel more alone. Most days,…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2021] — JF OSH