Snail Mail No More
Now that they live in different cities, thirteen-year-old Tara and Elizabeth use email to "talk" about everything that is occurring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness as they face big changes.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], family life, electronic mail messages, letters [X], families, electronic mail systems
Dear Anjali
When her best friend dies at the age of thirteen, Meredith writes letters to her as she tries to endure her grief and other confusing emotions.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
We'll Fly Away
"Toby and Luke are best friends, bound by a goal of leaving their hometown for Luke's wrestling scholarship, but a series of events during their senior year will test their resolve"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: letters [X], death row, prisoners, schools, high schools, family problems, friendship [X], best friends [X], dysfunctional families, family life, school stories, prisons
Swing
Noah, who is white, and his best friend Walt, who is black, are determined to woo the girls of their dreams and become star athletes despite being cut from the baseball team and Sam, Noah's dream girl, having him firmly in the friend zone.
FIC
year:
copies: 71
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: best friends [X], friendship [X], african americans, baseball stories, letters [X], baseball, novels in verse, sports fiction, novels in verse, bildungsromans
Dear Justyce
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 87
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: juvenile detention homes, dysfunctional families, best friends [X], friendship [X], african americans, letters [X], family problems, family life, large type books, social problem fiction
The Ship We Built
A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gender identity, letters [X], middle schools, school stories, family life, child sexual abuse, friendship [X], schools, families, best friends [X], sexual abuse