Best Friends

Beautiful Blue World

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Copies: 6

Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they’ll be all right.

But the army is recruiting children, and paying families well for their service. If Megs takes the test, Mathilde knows she will pass. Megs hopes the army is the way to save her family. Mathilde fears it might separate them forever.

Author:

Suzanne LaFleur

Lexile:

540L

Peanut Butter and Jellyfish

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Peanut Butter and Jellyfish are the best of friends. They swim up, down, around, and through their ocean home. Crabby is their cranky neighbor. He is not their best friend.

Author:

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Grade Level:

Primary

Length:

00:08

Fort

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Copies: 6

"This is the 100 percent true story of the summer I - Wyatt Jones - was eleven and built a fort in the woods with my friend Augie Valerio. It isn't the story I handed in to my teacher about how I spent my summer vacation. See, there's stuff that happened that you can't really talk about in school. Not unless you want to get into trouble. Plus, there are things in here like dead squirrels. and squirrel guts. There are weapons, too: a slingshot, a pellet gun, and a pocketknife. I'm just warning you, in case that kind of stuff bothers you.

Author:

Cynthia DeFelice

Bink and Gollie: Best Friends Forever

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Copies: 7

Our favorite heroines are back to ask some big questions. Does royal blood flow through Gollie's veins? Can Bink grow tall enough to reach the peanut butter? Can the two of them, together, astonish their friends and neighbors by breaking a world record?

Clever shenanigans abound in this third book starring the marvelous companions introduced in the New York Times best-selling and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning Bink & Gollie.

Author:

Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Lexile:

420L

Bink and Gollie: Two For One

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Copies: 7

Your favorite marvelous companions are back!

Meet them at the fair in this delightfully droll sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner Bink and Gollie.

The state fair is in town, and now Bink and Gollie -- utter opposites and best friends extraordinaire -- must use teamwork and their gray matter to navigate its many wonders. Will Bink win the world's largest donuet in the Whack-a-Duck game? Will Gollie wow the crowd in the talent show?

Author:

Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee

Lexile:

270L

Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!

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Copies: 5

6½ stories about 2 surprising friends. Having a stuffed alligator for a best friend can be surprising. Sometimes Amanda surprises her alligator with books. Sometimes Alligator surprises Amanda by eating them. But what happens when Amanda brings home a special---and not entirely welcome---surprise? The result might be unexpected indeed. Beloved author-illustrator Mo Willems has created a funny and tender portrait of friendship that readers of any age will love.

Author:

Mo Willems

Lexile:

AD360L

Best Friends: Main Street, Book 4 (Unabridged)

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Spring has arrived in Camden Falls, and with it have come many joys and challenges. As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in town, Flora prepares for a visit from her old best friend, Annika.

Author:

Ann M. Martin

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

880L

Length:

04:42

Best Friends: Main Street, Book 4 (Unabridged)