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Table of Contents
About The Book
Finding a friend isn't easy.
Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood Lenore is everyone's friend of choice. She has her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop, her own pink phone, and a canopy bed. The most Pearl hopes for is to be included as one of Lenore's followers.
Then outcast Artemesia comes into Pearl's life. Artemesia is everything Pearl dreams of being -- a dancer and an artist. But then Lenore makes it clear she can't stand Artemesia, Pearl does the worst thing possible.
And she still hasn't got a friend.
Or has she?
Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood Lenore is everyone's friend of choice. She has her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop, her own pink phone, and a canopy bed. The most Pearl hopes for is to be included as one of Lenore's followers.
Then outcast Artemesia comes into Pearl's life. Artemesia is everything Pearl dreams of being -- a dancer and an artist. But then Lenore makes it clear she can't stand Artemesia, Pearl does the worst thing possible.
And she still hasn't got a friend.
Or has she?
Product Details
- Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (January 9, 2007)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781416934523
- Grades: 3 - 7
- Ages: 8 - 12
- Fountas & Pinnell™ T These books have been officially leveled by using the F&P Text Level Gradient™ Leveling System
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Raves and Reviews
"Moving and memorable."
-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Sensitive, realistic."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Affecting."
-- School Library Journal
Awards and Honors
- Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee (NJ)
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle List Junior Title
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- Book Cover Image (jpg): Some Friend Trade Paperback 9781416934523(1.5 MB)