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Read about Friendship
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Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Chester’s Way
By Kevin Henkes
2nd & 3rd Grade
A Frog in My Throat
By Robin Stevenson
Kate and Jake have always been best friends; always, that is, until Jake’s cousin, Lionel, moves nearby and Jake starts spending time with him instead. Kate struggles with his abandonment and her own loneliness as she seeks new friends that share her likes and dislikes. And, perhaps there is a place in her life for her old best friend after all
4th & 5th Grade
Ripple Effect
By Sylvia Taekema
Best friends Dana and Janelle had big plans for grade six. Run on the cross-country team together. Try out for volleyball. They’d even planned to be partners for the class geography project. Neither girl could have known that a biking accident would land Janelle in the hospital all summer long. Dana is convinced that everything will go back to normal once school starts. But Queen Bee Julia has co-opted her friend, and Janelle’s crutches make running or playing volleyball impossible. Over time, she wonders if there’s anything left of her old friendship that’s salvageable.
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6th – 8th Grade
Impossible Things
By Robin Stevenson
Cassidy Silver is not having a good year. Then Cassidy meets Victoria, who is telekinetic—she can move objects with her mind. Her engineer father is in the Middle East, her artist mother is too busy to listen to her, her genius younger brother is being bullied, and her best friend Chiaki has abandoned her to hang out with the meanest girls in school.Cassidy, desperate to not be the only ordinary person in her family, thinks learning telekinesis could be the answer to all her problems. But is Victoria telling the truth? And is telekinesis really the solution?
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