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Friendship

Impulse

Ellen Hopkins

Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their li

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Your Eyes in Stars

M. E. Kerr

In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War

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Yesterday's Child

Sonia Levitin

After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.

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The Year of Secret Assignments

Jaclyn Moriarty

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the school

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Wrestling Sturbridge

Rich Wallace

Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wres

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Who Do You Think You Are

A collection of short stories exploring the theme of friendship.

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Where Are You When I Need You?

Suzanne Newton

When Missy Cord wins a college scholarship, she has a hard time deciding whether or not to leave the security of her small hometown.

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Where Have All the Tigers Gone?

Lynn Hall

Enroute to a high school reunion, a fifty-year-old woman, now a successful novelist, reminisces about the personalities and relationships in her class and about her own feeling during her school days

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What's in a Name

Ellen Wittlinger

Each of ten teenagers living in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity at the same time that the local residents consider changing the name of their town.

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Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

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