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Here are our favorite books about Friends and Frenemies. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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In the Wild Light
by Jeff Zentner
When his best friend, Delaney, gets them both full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash must choose between his need to love and protect Delaney and his loyalty to his grandparents and their small Appalachian town.
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Begin Again
by Emma Lord
When her arrival at Blue Ridge State doesn't go as planned, aspiring self-help guru Andie Rose finds her voice as the anonymous Squire of the school's legendary pirate radio station, discovering that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones.
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The Queens of New York
by E. L. Shen
Spending their first summer apart since they were 7 years old, 17-year-old BFFs Jia, Ariel and Everett each deal with heartbreaking surprises and shocking self-discoveries, and realize even though they're physically apart, they are still strong together.
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We'll Never tell
by Wendy Heard
Filming the last episode of their viral YouTube channel We'll Never Tell at the site of a shocking murder/suicide that took place in 1972, the members of the team who remain alive after one of them is killed must solve the murder mysteries past and present.
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When We Had Summer
by Jennifer Castle
When their best friend Carly unexpectedly passes away, Daniella, Lainie and Penny, the remaining #SummerSisters, are brought back together by Carly's bucket list and work to keep her memory alive while navigating grief and loss.
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You Truly Assumed
by Laila Sabreen
After a terrorist attack near her home ignites Islamophobia, Sabriya and two other girls publish an online journal that goes viral, but when hateful comments and threats are made, they must risk everything to make their voices heard.
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The Book of Living Secrets
by Madeleine Roux
Excited to enter the world of a gothic romance they have been obsessed with for years, best friends Adelle and Connie are instead faced with unspeakable horrors and must rewrite their own ending to survive this nightmare.
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You'll Be the Death of Me
by Karen M. McManus
Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common...like a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something. Could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all?
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The Last Words We Said
by Leah Scheier
Nine months after Danny disappeared, his closest friends, Ellie, Rae, and Deenie, deal with their loss very differently but will have to share secrets about the night he disappeared to uncover the truth.
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Simone Breaks All the Rules
by Debbie Rigaud
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistence on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
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So Many Beginnings : A Little Women Remix
by Bethany C. Morrow
At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent, young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
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Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
by Crystal Maldonado
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
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Kate in Waiting
by Becky Albertalli
Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
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Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
by Joya Goffney
Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud" and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing... Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public.
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You Can Go Your Own Way
by Eric Smith
Trapped inside an arcade by a snowstorm, Adam, who is determined to save the arcade from Philadelphia’s newest tech mogul, and Whitney, the daughter of the tech mogul, find the tension between them turning into something else.
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Genuine Fraud
by E Lockhart
A novel of psychological suspense by the best-selling author of We Were Liars follows the experiences of a diabolically intelligent girl who repeatedly reinvents herself in an effort to secure a charmed existence.
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but it is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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We Are the Perfect Girl by A. E. KaplanA warmhearted retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac finds two teens, the outgoing Aphra and the beautiful Bethany, working together in an unintentionally escalating deception to win the heart of a mutual crush. By the author of Grendel's Guide to Love and War.
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In the Neighborhood of True
by Susan Kaplan Carlton
In the very white and very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
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The Year They Fell
by David Kreizman
When their parents are killed in a plane crash, a group of former childhood friends, who are now entering their senior year in high school, are pulled back together by the tragedy.
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Starry Eyes by Jenn BennettWhen teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings in order to survive.
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