Best Friend Next Door
Best Friend Next Door
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Best Friend Next Door

Written by Carolyn Mackler
Part of the Wish Book Series
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8 - 12
Reading age
224
Page count
186
Words per page
~650L
Lexile measure
Jul 25, 2017
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Printz Honor and bestselling author Carolyn Mackler joins our charming WISH line with this story of a friendship between two girls.Meet Hannah. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year’s. She wishes she had a cat. She’s medium height and a little awkward. Her life has NOT been fun lately – her dad and stepmom are having a baby and, worst of all, her best friend next door just moved away. Now a new girl is here, taking over her best friend’s bedroom . . . and her own identity.Meet Emme. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year’s. She loves her enormous orange cat. She’s so short that last week she was mistaken for a kindergartner. She’s found moving hard . . . but at least there’s the girl next door, Hannah. Maybe they’ll become friends?While Hannah and Emme are alike in so many ways, they’re different in some wrong ways, too. Is this the perfect friendship . . . or a recipe for disaster?From award-winning writer Carolyn Mackler comes a funny, smart story about finding out who your best friends are, in good times and bad.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780545709453
    Publication Date
    July 25, 2017
    Publisher
    Scholastic Paperbacks
    Original Publication Date
    May 26, 2015
    Page Count
    224
    Words Per Page
    186
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~650L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~P
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.2
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    6
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    174463
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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