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Emma on Thin Icing

Coco Simon, Elizabeth Doyle Carey

It’s funny and you would enjoy it if you love cupcakes Hope you enjoy

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionChef or Baker
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Welcome to the BSC, Abby

Ann M. Martin, Nola Thacker · 127 pages

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Mary Anne and the Memory Garden

Ann M. Martin · 152 pages

After a fun winter break, Mary Anne is glad to be back at SMS. She's excited about her English project, and optimistic about the weeks ahead. Nothing could have prepared Mary Anne for the awful news that Amelia Freeman, a friend and a partner on her English project, has suddenly died. Everyone at school is shocked and saddened. Gradually the other kids recover. But Mary Anne only feels worse. If o

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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Pies & Prejudice

Heather Vogel Frederick

Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionChef or Baker
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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

Sharon Creech · 141 pages

Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionChef or Baker
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Peace, Love, and Cupcakes

Sheryl Berk, Carrie Berk

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The Clique

Lisi Harrison · 220 pages

Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionSeries
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Claudia and Mean Janine

Raina Telgemeier, Ann M. Martin · 175 pages

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Sleepaway Girls

Jen Calonita

When Sam's best friend gets her first boyfriend, she's not ready to spend the summer listening to the two of them call each other "pookie." Sick of being a third wheel, Sam applies to be a counselor-in-training at Whispering Pines camp in the New York Catskills. But what she doesn't realize is that it's not going to be all Kumbaya sing-alongs and gooey s'mores. If Ashley, the alpha queen of Whispe

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionSeries
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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 FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionSeries
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I Heard A Rumor

Nancy E. Krulik · 105 pages

Someone is in and about spreading rumours. Jenny has to find that person and sure that its one of her friends. Will she find who Madams X is before its too late? Find out in this lovely book.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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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.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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Patina

Jason Reynolds · 360 pages

"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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The Teashop Girls

Laura Schaefer · 264 pages

Fourteen-year-old Annie, along with her two best friends, tries desperately to save her grandmother's beloved, old-fashioned teashop in Madison, Wisconsin, while she also learns to accept the inevitability of change in life. Includes proverbs, quotations, and brief stories about tea, as well as recipes.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipChef or BakerFemale Lead
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The Popularity Papers

Amy Ignatow · 206 pages

Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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Ellen Tebbits

Beverly Cleary · 160 pages

Ellen Tebbits is a 1951 children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is Cleary's second published book, following Henry Huggins. This humorous realistic fiction story tells the adventures of young Ellen and the new girl in her school, Austine Allen.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Louise Rennison · 183 pages

The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionSeries
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Jealousy

Jessica Burkhart

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Super Sweet 13

Helen Perelman · 149 pages

Feuding friends, favor mix-ups, and missing guests threaten to make Carly Merrin's party memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionSeries
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Accidentally Fooled

Lisa Papademetriou · 185 pages

Seventh-grader Amy Flowers is not happy that she is stuck teaching health to first-graders for her service project while her best friends get to help at the community garden, specially since her partners are the Queen of Mean Fiona and preppie Preston.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The School Story

Andrew Clements · 196 pages

After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Sophie's Secret

Nancy N. Rue · 115 pages

As eleven-year-old future film director Sophie LaCroix imagines herself and her friends as female versions of Indiana Jones, her therapist helps her work on her relationships with family members and with Jesus.

Middle GradeFemale FriendshipContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Violet Raines Almost Got Stuck By Lightning

Danette Haworth · 162 pages

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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

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