Worst of Friends

Worst of Friends
Author: Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0399538860

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House. Full of both history and humor, this is the story of two of America's most well-known presidents and how they learned to put their political differences aside for the sake of friendship.

Best Friends, Worst Enemies

Best Friends, Worst Enemies
Author: Michael Thompson, PhD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2001-10-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0345449452

Friends broaden our children’s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., and children’s book author Catherine O’Neill Grace, illuminate the crucial and often hidden role that friendship plays in the lives of children from birth through adolescence. Drawing on fascinating new research as well as their own extensive experience in schools, Thompson and Grace demonstrate that children’s friendships begin early–in infancy–and run exceptionally deep in intensity and loyalty. As children grow, their friendships become more complex and layered but also more emotionally fraught, marked by both extraordinary intimacy and bewildering cruelty. As parents, we watch, and often live through vicariously, the tumult that our children experience as they encounter the “cool” crowd, shifting alliances, bullies, and disloyal best friends. Best Friends, Worst Enemies brings to life the drama of childhood relationships, guiding parents to a deeper understanding of the motives and meanings of social behavior. Here you will find penetrating discussions of the difference between friendship and popularity, how boys and girls deal in unique ways with intimacy and commitment, whether all kids need a best friend, why cliques form and what you can do about them. Filled with anecdotes that ring amazingly true to life, Best Friends, Worst Enemies probes the magic and the heartbreak that all children experience with their friends. Parents, teachers, counselors–indeed anyone who cares about children–will find this an eye-opening and wonderfully affirming book.

The Worst Best Friend

The Worst Best Friend
Author: Alexis O'Neill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Mike and Conrad, Conrad and Mike are best, BEST friends. That is until Victor--a new boy, a big boy, a cool boy--arrives at school. Suddenly, Conrad turns into the WORST best friend and forgets all about his pal, Mike. But when Victor's need to win leaves Conrad crushed, Mike steps up to the plate and shows how to be a real friend, a true-blue friend--a best, BEST friend. From the creators of The Recess Queen, exuberant illustrations and rhythmic text bounce off the pages in this frank and funny look at the challenges and rewards of friendship. A perfect read-aloud to share with a best, best friend--and all friends--again and again.

Worst Enemies/Best Friends

Worst Enemies/Best Friends
Author: Annie Bryant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439159572

Yikes! As if being the new girl isn't bad enough, Charlotte just made the biggest cafeteria blunder in the history of Abigail Adams Junior High. There's no way that Katani, Avery, and Maeve will want anything to do with her now. Can a mysterious landlady, a romantic evening gone wrong, and a cryptic key to nowhere help four very different girls become the best of friends? Or will they remain worst enemies forever?

Wow, No Thank You.

Wow, No Thank You.
Author: Samantha Irby
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0525563490

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!

Best Friend, Worst Enemy

Best Friend, Worst Enemy
Author: Beverly Lewis
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780764225000

Thirteen-year-old Holly's relationship with her best friend Andie is threatened when they both fall for Jared, the new boy in the seventh grade and a fellow Christian.

All My Friends Are Dead

All My Friends Are Dead
Author: Avery Monsen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 145213538X

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

Unicorns Are the Worst!

Unicorns Are the Worst!
Author: Alex Willan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534453849

Perfect for fans of Dragons Love Tacos and Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great, this wildly funny and imaginative picture book celebrates the value of differences as a grumpy goblin gets to know his new unicorn neighbors. It’s an undeniable fact that unicorns are the worst! Magic is serious business, but all unicorns do is frolic around, have tea parties, and leave glitter all over the place! They’re nothing like goblins—practical and hard-working, who can put magic to good use! Unicorns aren’t helpful at all. Or are they?

Best Friends, Worst Luck

Best Friends, Worst Luck
Author: Mary Hooper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9780744582901

These light-hearted stories by one of the most popular contemporary writers for girls were met with great acclaim when they were first published. Mad About the Boy is about Joanna, who has to cope with her new stepmother's son and doesn't like it one bit. In The Boyfriend Trap, Terri arrives at her older sister's flat with a bag full of teen mags and a head full of True Love, but is dismayed to discover that Sarah doesn't appear to have a single boyfriend Something must be done - and quickly Best Friends, Worst Luck is the humorous story of two friends who have to cope when one of them, Bev, moves to the country. How on earth will she manage without her best friend, Sal? With new, colourful and stylish covers illustrated by Smarties Award-winner Sue Heap, these are three titles that any girl would be proud to have on her bookshelf

The Very Worst Thing

The Very Worst Thing
Author: Torey L. Hayden
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003-05-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060297921

David has never had a permanent home or a real friend, but when he decides to try to hatch an owl egg with the help of a classmate, his life slowly begins to change for the better.