After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome after effects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: cancer, middle schools, schools, best friends [X], friendship, new jersey [X], school stories, family life, brothers, family, families
Accomplice
High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: friendship, hoaxes, high schools, schools, conduct of life, new jersey [X], school stories, best friends [X], impostors and imposture, bildungsromans
Same Difference
Sixteen year old Emily's best friend has a boyfriend. Everything feels.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: artists, self-confidence, school stories, friendship, family life, philadelphia (pa.), new jersey [X], schools, best friends [X], teenage identity, friends
Maybe One Day
"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems"--Provided by publisher.
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year: 2015
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, leukemia, sick, ballet, new jersey [X], families, schools, high schools, ballet dancing
Every Moment After
After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live.
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year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: friendship, community life, school shootings, high schools, schools, best friends [X], life change events, new jersey [X], bildungsromans
Simone Breaks All The Rules
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haitian americans, mother-daughter relationship, family life, friendship, proms, dating (social customs), new jersey [X], haitian american teenagers, haitian american families, mothers and daughters, best friends [X]