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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After an accident in the woods involving a young girl, eleven-year-old Hex meets a mysterious woman who offers him a deal to change his world, which sets off a ripple effect that Hex's best friend Tommo must rectify.
22) Dirt Creek
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Excited for her first overnight trip away from her overprotective parents with her two best friends Zoey and Julian, Maggie finds her plans falling apart when everyone splits in twos, leaving her to wonder where--and with whom--she still fits.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions. Join Roland and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock. Will our heroes survive? Find out in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure!" --
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave Stanford's pre-med program after contracting Lyme disease, Priya finds solace in an online chronic-illness support group and with best friend Brigid, whose own illness may be more unique than Priya suspected.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Summer Sisters, Daniella, Alaina, and Penelope are about to be separated for the summer after the death of their friend Carly, they vow to complete the bucket list she wrote before she passed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In St. Hilaire, where most residents talk to the dead, Dec, who yearns for a fresh start, Russ, who plans to run his town, and piano prodigy Annie Krylova meet and find their lives transformed. Told from multiple viewpoints.
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When best friends Beth and Chandra are asked to dogsit at Ms. Langford's luxurious house while she's away, they find their dream job turning into a nightmare after a prized possession is broken and they must somehow figure out how to pay for a replacement.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.
Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.
On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school...[Bertie's] job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move...When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris...One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When alone, a young girl enjoys dancing, singing, growling, and cheering but when anyone other than her best friend is watching, she is quiet and shy.
Author
Series
Ivy and Bean volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
125 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Second graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, Laurie sees a man and knows he's the one. Their eyes meet, there's magic, and her bus leaves. For a year she scans London's bus stops and cafes. Then, at a Christmas party, her best friend introduces him as her new boyfriend."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Point
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Kate Bailey lets her best friend, Alana, talk her into joining their high school's podcast she did not expect to find herself as the host, or to enjoy answering calls and giving advice on the air, but she is actually pretty good at it--but when she gets an anonymous call from a boy (possibly Diego Martinez) about his secret feelings for a girl (probably Alana) she is faced with a problem, because she is developing feelings for Diego herself.
37) Mac and Cheese
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.
38) Cowboy Colt
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-graders Ellie and Colt have been best friends since kindergarten, but when Colt starts treating Ellie badly and even ignores her younger, deaf brother, she wonders if she should continue to pray for a horse for Colt, as she has been ever since she got her own horse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.
40) Zombie kid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Monster-obsessed friends Nick, Carter, and Angelo are in for a hilariously grim adventure when an amulet that turns Nick into a zombie leads them on a quest to defeat the Zombie King himself"--