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    Best Friend Next Door
    Best Friend Next Door
    Best Friend Next Door
    Audiobook4 hours

    Best Friend Next Door

    Written by Carolyn Mackler

    Narrated by Cassandra Morris and Tara Sands

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    About this audiobook

    Printz Honor-winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Carolyn Mackler brings honesty and charm to this middle-grade debut tracing the friendship of two girls.

    Meet Hannah. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year's. Her mom died when she was little. She wishes she had a cat. She's medium height and a little gawky. She's being raised by her dad and stepmom, and just found out they're having a baby. Now she'll never get a real mom. And to top it off, Emme, the new neighbor, is taking over her best friend's bedroom...and her identity.

    Meet Emme. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year's. She has two moms, which recently has been feeling like one mom too many. She's so short that last week she was mistaken for a kindergartner. She loves her enormous orange cat. She used to be an optimist (harder these days). At least there's Hannah. Maybe they'll become friends?

    But while Hannah and Emme are alike in so many ways, they're different in all the wrong ways. Is this the perfect friendship, or a recipe for disaster?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateMay 26, 2015
    ISBN9780545857727
    Best Friend Next Door
    Author

    Carolyn Mackler

    Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book); The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I; Infinite in Between; and Love and Other Four-Letter Words; and the middle grade novel, Best Friend Next Door. Carolyn’s award-winning books have appeared on bestseller lists and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. The Wife App is her first adult novel.

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    • 5/5
      I loved this!!!!!! You must read!!!! It’s amazing!!!
      It only took me 3 days to finish!
    • 5/5
      One of my students I am tutoring finished reading this book with me today. She loved how real the characters were and how they worked out girl drama. She highly recommends the book to 4th and 5th graders:).