The Rocky Road Trip Of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-chang
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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subjects: voyages and travels, friendship, family life, scrapbooks, comic books, strips, etc, best friends [X], summer [X], families, automobile travel, family
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
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
subjects: jeans (clothing), girls, friendship, summer [X], large type books, best friends [X], conduct of life
Claire
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
Danitra Brown Leaves Town
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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Hot Day On Abbott Avenue
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
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning
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
Grass Angel
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
Unfriended
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
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
Exit Strategy
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
The Summer Before
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
subjects: summer [X], friendship, babysitters club (imaginary organization), babysitting, clubs, connecticut, best friends [X], family problems, dating (social customs), moving, household
Where Heroes Hide
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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subjects: historical fiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, people with disabilities, best friends [X], summer [X], united states
Fort
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
Why Can't I Be You
"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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The Best Friend Plan
". . . best friends Amy and Allie do absolutely everything together.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530