friendship

Fourteen-year-old Mattie's problems include liking her best friend's brother and babysitting her own pesky younger sibling who thinks he is a dog, but it takes a family crisis to help sort out her difficulties.

Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.

Oddly Normal, a girl whose mother is a witch and her father a human, makes a wish on her tenth birthday that causes her parents to disappear, forcing her to go live with her eccentric witch of a great-aunt in Fignation, a world of witchcraft and imagination.

Emily uses the journaling flashcards her aunt gave her as a birthday gift to help her sort out her friendships, attitudes, and family oddities.

Debbie is dismayed when her best friend Maureen starts spending time with ordinary, boring Glenna.

Ann Fay Honeycutt becomes the man of the house at age thirteen after her father leaves to fight in World War II, forcing Ann to give up her childhood and tend to her family, but when a polio epidemic strikes, Ann faces the most devastating challenge of her life.

Fifteen-year-old Bianca Balducci and her sister investigate when her new friend Sadie Sinclair acts strangely.

Thorn, a mysterious boy with a deformed leg, arrives on an island inhabited by the people of the Singing Seals, and though treated with fear and suspicion by most of the natives, is befriended by the girl Willow, chosen to be the next Keeper of Story.

Ten-year-old Thora, daughter of a mermaid mother and a human father, has many adventures at sea until she must return to the English seaside town of Grimli and save her mother who has been captured by the greedy real estate developer, Frooty de Mare.

Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.