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California seventh-graders Sarah and Marjorie made a promise in kindergarten to always be friends, but Marjorie is weird and Sarah, wanting to be at least somewhat popular, makes friends with a fellow choir member.

Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.

Cecilia is a princess posing as a peasant to hide from the evil forces that killed her parents.

After a falling out, best friends Gigi and Lulu discover that, while it can be fun to do the same things most of the time, sometimes it is good to be different.

Anna has always been content to let her best friend Zoe take the risks, leaving Anna to watch from the sidelines, but when Zoe breaks her arm, Anna must face summer camp on her own.

As Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to find a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested.

Twelve-year-old best friends Carly and Arlene write about twin princesses during the final, cataclysmic days of Atlantis in a story that parallels the growing tensions the two friends are experiencing in their lives.

Temp Lifer Amber's third assignment takes her into the body of her best friend, Alyce, who is involved in some secret project involving cemeteries; while investigating, Amber encounters Dark Lifer Gabe, who wants to make a deal with her.

Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.

There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.

"Nineteen-year-old Danny returns home after a disastrous first semester of college as a pre-med student and struggles with first love, grief, identity, and self-destructive behavior"--.

Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend, Layla, who is distancing herself from Tally and her fourteen-year-old sister, Nell, who is always angry with Tally for being different; but as she records her thoughts and anxieties in her coping diary, Tally begins to wonder--what is "normal" anyway?.

"Seventeen-year-old June feels she is nothing without her best friend, Jess, but everything changes after she is expelled and must attend a Virginia boarding school where her grandmother teaches"--OCLC.

Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture the part of her identity that has always eluded her.

"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with.