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The Summer Before

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True

Katherine Hannigan

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Mother-Daughter Book Camp

Heather Vogel Frederick · 321 pages

Emma, Jess, Megan, Becca, and Cassidy go to Camp Lovejoy in New Hampshire to serve as counselors and when some of the young campers are stricken with homesickness, the friends decide to start a summer camp book club.

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeMultiple POV
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Lake Rescue

Annie Bryant · 225 pages

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares · 400 pages

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Lena: Immerses herself in her painting and an intoxicating summer fling, fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again. Carmen: Falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything and the heritage of the

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVTeenagers
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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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A Handful of Stars

Cynthia Lord · 184 pages

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Thirteen Plus One

Lauren Myracle · 290 pages

As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeTeenagers
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Emma All Stirred Up!

Coco Simon, Elizabeth Doyle Carey · 133 pages

This book is about emma who goes to camp then she starts to have her own problems . She has problems with her old friend and new friends from camp . Can she solve these problems .

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Return to Summerhouse

Jude Deveraux · 436 pages

Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family, Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVHeartwarming
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Summer on Blossom Street

Debbie Macomber · 384 pages

Knitting and LifeThey're both about beginnings--and endings. That's why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who want to quit something--or someone!--and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander, who's trying to get over a man. Alix Turner and her husband want a baby, so she has to quit smoking.

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Summer Term at St Clare's

Enid Blyton · 155 pages

Pat and Isabel look forward to their first summer term at St Clare's. They soon make friends with new girl Carlotta, who has a secret past that she's desperate to hide. But sneaky Prudence finds out and tells everybody. How will the class react? There'll be mischief at St. Clare's!

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Chasing Charlie Duskin

Cath Crowley · 233 pages

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVFemale Lead
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The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

John Bellairs · 188 pages

Rose Rita Pottinger is dreading summer. With her best friend, Lewis Barnavelt, away at Boy Scout camp, vacation threatens to be altogether boring. But when Mrs. Zimmermann, Lewis's next door neighbor and a genuine witch, receives a strange deathbed letter from an eccentric uncle, unexpected things start to happen. Rose Rita and Mrs. Zimmermann set off on a trip to discover the meaning of the le

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeTeenagersHeartwarming
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Every Soul a Star

Wendy Mass · 322 pages

And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun. It's also were three lives are about to be changed forever:Ally likes the simple things in life--labyrinths, star-gazing, and c

Summer VibesMiddle GradeMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Riding Camp

Bonnie Bryant · 144 pages

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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A Cottage by the Sea

Carole Matthews · 448 pages

Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick since university. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time. Now in their thirties, Grace is always a bit disappointed about how little time they get to spend together, so when Ella invites them all to stay for a week in her cottage in South Wales, Grace jumps at the chance to see her o

Female FriendshipSummer VibesMultiple POVHeartwarming
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Female FriendshipSummer VibesMultiple POVTeenagers
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Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen · 240 pages

Fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself. But her summer with her aunt, her aunt's tenant Norman, and her friends at the Last Chance Diner&150teaches her some important lessons about friendship and learning to love yourself.

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipFemale LeadSelf-Discovery
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Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other.Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other's homes, attend school together, and record their experience in their journals. Catherine and her family have a beautif

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeMultiple POVHeartwarming
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Movers & Fakers

Lisi Harrison

At the elite Alpha Academy, where every girl is used to being the best, Charlie's efforts to encourage Allie and Darwin's romance backfire, while Skye finds it increasingly difficult to focus on dance.

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeMultiple POVTeenagers
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A Summer in Sonoma

Robyn Carr · 400 pages

They've been best friends since seventh grade. But this summer, teetering on the threshold of thirty, four women are going to need each other more than ever. Cassie is still looking Mr. Forever ; Julie married her highschool sweetheart too young. Marty's firefighter husband has forgotten all about romance, and Beth, a busy doctor, is trapped in a body that has betrayed her again. Life can change i

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVHeartwarming
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Barefoot

Elin Hilderbrand · 424 pages

It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, threewomen arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a localboy, home from college. Burdened with small children,unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues,the women--two sisters and one friend--make their way tothe sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're alltrying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven fai

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Moon Shell Beach

Nancy Thayer · 306 pages

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer delighted readers with her sparkling Hot Flash Club series. Now she has written a vibrant new novel set within a tight-knit island community, where two women struggle to rekindle a childhood friendship damaged by harsh words, betrayal, and the passing years.Lexi Laney and Clare Hart grew up together swimming in the surf, riding remote bike trails, and

Summer VibesFemale FriendshipMultiple POVHeartwarming

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