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My Best Friend
Written by Julie Fogliano
Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020. Picture Book.

Two girls quickly become best friends, even before they learn one another's names. --Publisher

The Friend Ship
Written by Kat Yeh
Illustrated by Chuck Groenink
Los Angeles; New York: Disney Hyperion, 2016. Picture Book. 

A lonely hedgehog sets out on an adventure to find friendship. --Editor

The Friendship Book
Written by Mary Lyn Ray
Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. Picture Book

Illustrations and easy-to-read text provide a primer on friendship, including the many ways friendships are formed. --Editor

Friends
By Daniela Sosa
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. Picture Book. 

A picture book that celebrates friendship--new friends, old friends, friends for a little while and friends for a lifetime. --Editor

Ivy and Bean
Written by Annie Barrows
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2006. Intermediate. 113 pages.

When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected. --Editor

The Best Friend Plan
Written by Stephanie Calmenson and Joanna Cole
Illustrated by James Burke
New York: Aladdin Quix, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2020.

Best, best, best friends Amy and Allie do absolutely everything together. And this summer they have made a list of activities that they will do each and every day. But then Allie learns she's being sent to sleep-away camp and all their plans are ruined! How will these BFFs ever make it through the summer? --Editor

Relax to the Max
Written by Trish Granted
Illustrated by Manuela Lopez
New York: Little Simon, 2021.

When Jeanie wishes she could just relax, Willow grants the wish. But wearing pajamas to school isn't the sort of relaxing Jeanie was hoping for. --Editor

Redwood and Ponytail
By K. A. Holt
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC, 2019. Fiction. 416 pages.

Told in verse in two voices, with a chorus of fellow students, this is a story of two girls, opposites in many ways, who are drawn to each other; Kate appears to be a stereotypical cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam is tall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate. --Editor

Friend of Fiction
By Abby Cooper
Watertown, MA: Charlsbridge, 2019. Fiction. 267 pages.

About the time that her father was diagnosed with cancer, Jade invented Zoe, an imaginary friend in the pages of her notebook that she could depend on; then one of her classmates, Gresham Gorham (called Clue), somehow brings Zoe to life, and Jade suddenly has a best friend, one she can still control by what she writes in her notebook--but soon Jade begins to wonder how much a friendship is worth if you are calling all of the shots, and whether she should let Clue return Zoe to the notebook, and so rejoin reality herself. --Editor

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
By Tae Keller
New York: Random House, 2022. Fiction. 277 pages.

Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school ... Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run and face the truth within herself. --Publisher
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