Mallory on the Move

The Year of Billy Miller

Opal Plumstead

Strange Parents (Piñata Books)

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Cici's Journal

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Double Act

New to town, Bea is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. You know the type: very cheery, very friendly, very average. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet observer who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. He's not a big fan of people in general... but he's willing to make an exception for her. Maybe.

Bea and Jonah are not going to have a friendship like other people have a friendship, where it's all based on gossip and parties and what everybody else thinks. Instead, their friendship comes from truth-bound conversations, shared secrets, daring stunts, and late-night calls to the same old-timer radio show. They help each other and hurt each other, push away and hold close. It's not romance, exactly - but it's definitely love. And it means more to them than either one can ever really know....

For anyone who's ever entered the wonderful, treacherous, consuming, meaningful world of a true friendship, How to Say Goodbye in Robot will strike a deep and lasting chord.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Mallory on the Move

Tamara Schmitz, Laurie Friedman, 2004

The Year of Billy Miller

Kevin Henkes, 2013

Opal Plumstead

Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt, 2014

Strange Parents (Piñata Books)

Julia Mercedes Castilla, 2009

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Erin Entrada Kelly, 2022

Cici's Journal

Joris Chamblain, Aurélie Neyret, 2017

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Booki Vivat, 2017

Double Act

Jacqueline Wilson, Eve Karpf, 1995