friendship in children

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.

Provides advice for children on friendship, covering how to make friends, how to handle fights, what to do if someone is being mistreated, and other related topics.

Shows parents how to help children ages four to fifteen who do not have friends or have difficulties in friendships, covering such issues as tattling and gossiping, teasing and bullying, shyness, bossiness, insensitivity, oversensitivity, competitiveness, peer pressure, cliques, breakups, and being the "new kid.".