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The Rocky Road Trip Of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-chang

author: Ignatow, Amy
Junior high girls Julie and Lydia are excited to go on a road trip with Papa Dad and Daddy, and although they begin the trip by observing people and traditions in each new place they visit, their attention begins to shift to sensitive family issues.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
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The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants

author: Brashares, Ann
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

Claire

author: Harrison, Lisi
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.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: girls, love, summer [X], best friends [X], friendship, beauty contests, orlando (fla.)

Danitra Brown Leaves Town

author: Grimes, Nikki
Recounts, in a series of poems and letters, Danitra's summer at her aunt's house in the country and her best friend Zuri's summer at home in town.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: summer [X], best friends [X], friendship, city and town life, country life

Hot Day On Abbott Avenue

author: English, Karen
After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until the lure of a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: best friends [X], rope skipping, african americans, summer [X]

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning

author: Haworth, Danette
In 1970's Florida, eleven-year-old Violet's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a girl from Detroit who seems bent on stealing Violet's best friends.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, neighbors, summer [X], lightning, florida

Grass Angel

author: Schumacher, Julie
Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: family life, aunts, best friends [X], friendship, summer [X], ohio

Unfriended

author: Finn, Katie
After months of upheaval, seventeen-year-old Madison MacDonald of Putnam, Connecticut, is glad when summer brings some normalcy back to her life, but soon her deepening relationship with Nate starts to put a strain on her other friendships.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants

author: Brashares, Ann
Follows the adventures of four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, who stay in touch over their summer vacations through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different experiences.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: friendship, jeans (clothing), conduct of life, summer [X], best friends [X]

Exit Strategy

author: Potter, Ryan
Seventeen-year-old Zach, his best friend and state wrestling champion Tank, and Tank's twin sister Sarah, an Ivy League-bound scholar, are desperate to leave their depressing hometown of Blaine, Michigan, after graduation, but plans go awry when Zach uncovers a steroid scandal and falls in love with Sarah.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, steroids, summer [X], michigan

The Summer Before

author: Martin, Ann M.
Stacey McGill moves from New York City to Stoneybrook, Connecticut, in the summer before seventh grade where she meets and becomes friends with Kristy, Mary Anne, and Claudia, all of whom are going through big changes in their lives too.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

Where Heroes Hide

author: Recorvits, Helen
During the summer of 1956 ten-year-old Junior Webster, his friends, and especially his father, a decorated World War II veteran, discover what heroism is all about.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Fort

author: Defelice, Cynthia C
When older boys tear apart the fort where they have been enjoying a wonderful summer, Wyatt and Augie team up with another bullied kid to exact revenge, with unexpected consequences.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, bullying, summer [X], great-aunts

Why Can't I Be You

author: Walker, Melissa
"Claire Ladd knows that this summer is going to be special. She and her two best friends, Ronan and Brianna, are turning twelve.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: best friends [X], friendship, summer [X], bildungsromans

The Best Friend Plan

author: Calmenson, Stephanie
". . . best friends Amy and Allie do absolutely everything together.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: friendship, camps, summer [X], best friends [X]

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