Books Concerning Friendship
Contributed by the McKinley Library

This is a selective list. We have many more titles available in the McKinley and the Sherman collections. Also, take a look at what's available in your local public library.

Picture Books for Grades K - 2
Author	Title
Aliki	We are Best Friends
Barrett, Joyce Durham	Willie's Not the Hugging Kind
Barron, David	The Adventurres of Bob and Red
Berenstain, Stan & Jan	The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends
Berenstain, Stan & Jan	The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight
Blackistone, Mick	Broken Wings Will Fly
Bottner, Barbara	Bootsie Barker Bites
Boynton, Sandra	Chloe and Maude
Brown, Marc	Authur and the True Francine
Brown, Marc	Arthur's Birthday
Brown, Marc	Arthur's First Sleepover
Browne, Anthony	Willy and Hugh
Carle, Eric	Do You Want to be my Friend?
Caseley, Judith	Harry and Willy and Carrothead
Clifton, Lucille	One of the Problems of Everett Anderson
Cohen, Miriam	Will I Have a Friend?
Daugherty, James	Andy and the Lion
dePaola, Tomie	Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
Estlack, Micha	Darius, the Lovely Gargoyle
Fox, Mem	Wildrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Franklin, Kristine	The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy
Henks, Kevin	Chester's Way
Henks, Kevin	Chrysanthemum
Henks, Kevin	Jessica
Hoban, Russell	Best Friends for Frances
Joyce, William	A Day with Wilbur Robinson
Kellogg, Steven	Best Friends
Kellogg, Steven	A Rose for Pinkerton
Komaiko, Leah	Annie Bananie
Chapter Books
Brown, Marc	Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club
Giff, Patricia Reilly	Shark in School
Herman, Charlotte	Max Malone Makes a Million
Hurwitz, Johanna	Russell and Elisa
Kline, Suzy	Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
Kline, Suzy	Herbie Jones and the Birthday Showdown
Osborne, Mary Pope	Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May Apple
Roy, Ron	A to Z Mysteries: The Canary Caper
Smith, Janice Lee	Nelson in Love: An Adam Joshua Valentine's Day Story

Grades 3 and up
Gilson, Jamie	Sticks and Stones and Skeleton Bones
Farmer, Nancy	Do You Know Me?
Korman, Gordon	Invasion of the Nose-pickers
Lisle, Janet Taylor	Looking for Juliette
McNamee, Graham	Nothing Wrong With a Three-Legged Dog
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds	Being Danny's Dog
Patterson, Katherine	The Great Gilly Hopkins
Peck, Robert Newton	Soup
Precek, Katharine	The Keepsake Ghost
Spinelli, Jerry	Fourth Grade Rats
Steig, William	The Real Thief
Stolz, Mary	The Explorer of Barkham Street
Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Wallace, Bill	Trapped in Death Cave
Warner, Gertrude	The Disappearing Friend Mystery
White, E.B.	Charlotte's Web
Williams, Karen Lynn	Baseball and Butterflies
Williams, Vera B.	Scooter
Woodruff, Elvira	Back in Action
Wright, Betty Ren	A Ghost in the Family
Yolen, Jane	The Dragon's Boy
Zindel, Paul	Raptor

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