friendship

Tina Truly, a seventh-grade columnist at Meandering Middle School, responds to questions from her fellow students about friendship.

Fifth grader Abby Hayes has a few trying moments when it seems her friends are changing and growing away from her.

In the late nineteenth century, Lillie gains friendship and help with a spelling bee from a neighbor, Frances Willard, who braves criticism to speak about women's rights and learn to ride a bicycle. Includes historical notes.

In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.

Ruby the raccoon paints a picture which unexpectedly shows the best feature of her various friends.

Eighth-grader Patty Dillman makes a New Year's resolution to become friends with the popular and rich Penni Pendleton.

In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.

Beany has a magic wishing crystal, but since it will grant only one wish, she holds it in reserve waiting for the perfect moment to use it.

Presents an illustrated collection of children's poems by author Mary Quattlebaum that describes the joys of winter.

Contains poems for individual and multiple voices that follow the experiences of a group of four friends as they spend a happy, creative summer playing together.