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Friendship

So Long at the Fair

Hadley Irwin

The summer fairgrounds provide a temporary refuge for eighteen-year-old Joel as he struggles to deal with his memories of Ashley, the friend he loved and expected to have as a part of his life always.

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.

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Holes

Louis Sachar

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his fir

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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Kimberly Willis Holt

During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.

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B, My Name Is Bunny

Norma Fox Mazer

Bunny and Emily quarrel over the suitability of a fellow Bunny is seeing, but make it up when Bunny's changing family situation gives her a new perspective.

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Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, the Dump Queen

Norma Fox Mazer

A friendless girl, teased mercilessly at school because her uncle manages the town dump, finds a friend in Mrs. Fish, the school custodian, and gradually life becomes more bearable.

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Finding the Dream

Nora Roberts

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Three Weeks in Paris

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi, students together at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, go their separate ways after graduation having s

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Nantucket Nights

Elin Hilderbrand

For the last twenty-two years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have put aside their daily, separate lives to have a special weekend in Nantucket, where they meet to swap stories and talk about old times, b

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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.

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