friendship

California seventh-graders Sarah and Marjorie made a promise in kindergarten to always be friends, but Marjorie is weird and Sarah, wanting to be at least somewhat popular, makes friends with a fellow choir member.

A boy, a dog, and a frog catch a turtle while fishing down by the pond. Soon the three friends become four.

When nine-year-old Abby gets her own horse, a bay named Griffin, she realizes that taking care of him could mean giving up almost everything else in her life.

In the late 1960s, sixteen-year-old Lam Hung guides an American platoon through South Vietnam, but seeing as how Lam was once a member of the Viet Cong, his job leading the men around the dangers hidden in the jungle might not be as difficult as earning the men's trust.

When Miss Breakbone confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, Wheels, Pencil, Spider, and the rest of the Dunderheads plot to teach her a lesson.

Bear follows Goose on what he thinks is a treasure hunt, and they soon make a wonderful discovery of a different kind.

Hildy is thrilled when a farmer invites her to enter his "pig pickin'" contest, believing it to be a competition to pick the prettiest pig, but when Moose learns what pig pickin' really is, he must come up with a way to save his friend.

Mr. McGill and four of his friends agree to help each other finish their chores so that they will all have time to go to the town fair.

"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.

In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her Enfield, Massachusetts, home and her life-long friend, Chubby, as the day approaches when the Swift River Valley will be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston.