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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares · 373 pages

Can't wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now!Inside you'll find an exclusive "Who's Your Soul Mate Quiz" and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants.With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.Bridget: Impulsively s

Identity FormationLeaving HomeFemale FriendshipHeartwarming
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P.S. Longer Letter Later

Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin · 237 pages

Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipLeaving HomeHeartwarming
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Leaving HomeIdentity FormationFemale FriendshipHeartwarming
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I Hate Everyone But You

Gaby Dunn, Allison Raskin · 352 pages

This debut from two emerging YA talents is told through a series of texts and emails sent between two best friends as they head off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the country. But as each changes and grows into her new life, will their friendship survive the distance? Ava and Gen, best friends, are heading off to their first semesters of college on opposite sides of the

Epistolary FormatLeaving HomeFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 288 pages

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new

Leaving HomeIdentity FormationEpistolary FormatYoung Adult
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Dreaming of Amelia

Jaclyn Moriarty · 526 pages

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Amplified

Tara Kelly

When privileged seventeen-year-old Jasmine Kiss gets kicked out of her house by her father, she takes what is left of her meager savings and flees to Santa Cruz, California, to pursue her dream of becoming a rock musician.

Leaving HomeIdentity FormationYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume · 149 pages

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b

Identity FormationFemale FriendshipLeaving HomeHeartwarming
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Between Friends

Debbie Macomber · 400 pages

Debbie Macomber tells the story of a remarkable friendship—and tells it in a remarkable way. Between Friends is a story in which every woman will recognize herself...and her best friend.The friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begins in the postwar era of the 1950s. As they grow up, their circumstances, their choices—and their mistakes—take them in virtually opposite directions. Le

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipHeartwarmingContemporary Fiction
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The Milk of Birds

Sylvia Whitman

When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fifteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life

Maureen McCarthy · 444 pages

Leaving HomeFemale FriendshipMultiple POVYoung Adult
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ttyl

Lauren Myracle · 209 pages

Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson · 289 pages

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle

Leaving HomeEpistolary FormatHeartwarmingYoung Adult
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Identity FormationFemale FriendshipHeartwarmingYoung Adult
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The Museum of Intangible Things

Wendy Wunder · 275 pages

Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked. Hannah and Zoe leave their New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives

Leaving HomeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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I'll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, Suzanne Palmieri · 313 pages

Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipMultiple POVHeartwarming
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Love and Peaches

Jodi Lynn Anderson · 256 pages

Female FriendshipMultiple POVYoung AdultHeartwarming
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The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver · 240 pages

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Leaving HomeFemale FriendshipHeartwarmingContemporary Fiction
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Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern · 475 pages

From the author of PS, I LOVE YOU, a simultaneously funny and tender novel about what happens when two people who are destined to be together can never seem to get it right.Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone but them seems to realize it. Rosie’s best friend since childhood, Alex never did live down the fact that he didn’t invite her to his all-boys 10th birthday party. But t

Epistolary FormatHeartwarmingContemporary FictionMultiple POV
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My Most Excellent Year

Steve Kluger · 403 pages

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

Epistolary FormatMultiple POVYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Girls of Riyadh

Rajaa Alsanea · 304 pages

A bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young women attempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic traditionIn her debut novel Rajaa Alsanea reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Originally released in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionMultiple POV
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Jennifer Ryan · 401 pages

Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.

Epistolary FormatFemale FriendshipHeartwarmingMultiple POV
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Where We Belong

Emily Giffin · 384 pages

Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.

Female FriendshipIdentity FormationHeartwarmingMultiple POV
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This Is What Happy Looks Like

Jennifer E. Smith · 432 pages

Epistolary FormatYoung AdultContemporary FictionHeartwarming

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