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Friendship

Books about friendship and the relationships we form.

Sleepytown Beagles, Differences

The Sleepytown Beagles, take us on another incredible journey where children can learn to appreciate the differences and unique qualities in others. Set, as always, against the backdrop of a peaceful secure place called Sleepytown, the loveable Sleepytown Beagles will inspire young readers to value the beauty of the different qualities in us all.


Someone Bigger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Sam can’t wait to try out his new kite, but Dad says he’s too small to fly it alone-it needs someone bigger. When Dad launches the kite, a strong wind pulls it into the sky. But the wind is so strong that it pulls Dad up, too! Only one person can rescue this runaway kite, and Sam knows just who that someone is. With bouncy text-in a combination of rhyme and prose-and cheery art, this whimsical story is just right for anyone who’s ever felt not big enough.


Something Funny (Read with Dick and Jane)

Something Funny.  Look, Dick. Look, look. I see something funny. Come and see. Come and see Spot.


Sweethearts

As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also one another’s only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she’s lost the only person who will ever understand her. Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed. Known as Jenna, she’s popular, happy, and dating, everything “Jennifer” couldn’t be—but she still can’t shake the memory of her long-lost friend. When Cameron suddenly reappears, they are both confronted with memories of their shared past and the drastically different paths their lives have taken.


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Publisher: Hug-A-Chug Books

The much-loved children’s song, Tony Chestnut, comes to life in, The Book About Tony Chestnut, an interactive, whimsically illustrated children’s picture book with accompanying CD.

Tony Chestnut is joined in this story, by a stellar children’s cast of characters including Eileen, Neil, Pat, Bob, Russell and Skip, who are all from the hit song. Join the kids on an encouraging childhood adventure in friendship and quest towards playground unity — laugh along with the hysterical antics of Tony Chestnut as he anxiously tries to resolve his little sister’s true-to-life, social …


The Sandwich Swap

Lily and Salma are best friends. They play together and stick together through thick and thin. But who would have ever thought that ordinary peanut butter or plain old hummus could come between them? Lily and Salma don’t quite understand each other’s tastes, but does that mean they can’t be friends? They understand far better than a lot of gown ups that these things hardly matter and that friendship is the most important thing of all.


There Is a Bird on Your Head! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggies cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In There Is a Bird on Your Head! Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head — two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?


Umbrella Summer

Annie Richards knows there are a million things to look out for—bicycle accidents, food poisoning, chicken pox, smallpox, typhoid fever, runaway zoo animals, and poison oak. That’s why being careful is so important, even if it does mean giving up some of her favorite things, like bike races with her best friend, Rebecca, and hot dogs on the Fourth of July. Everyone keeps telling Annie not to worry so much, that she’s just fine. But they thought her brother, Jared, was just fine too, and Jared died.