friendship in children

For three childhood friends, the summer of 1948 was enchanting, until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends at the lake. Thirty years after a coverup and scandal, Leo returns to solve the mystery of what really happened.

A young boy learns that sometimes even best friends get tired of one another, but they can still be friends forever.

Explains ways to make friends; describes healthy friendships and how to apologize; discusses why some friendships end; and includes a glossary and a list of resources.

Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

Alice and Oliver, inseparable childhood friends who have drifted apart, are drawn together again when April's brother suddenly dies, and when Oliver, who has become a responsible, newly engaged law student, tries to save his childhood friend from grief and a dangerous boyfriend, some old secrets resurface.

Offers advice to girls on how to make and keep friends, and includes friendship tests and quizzes.

Clinical psychologists offer professional advice on relationship building for parents of young children.