Always and Forever Friends [Paperback]

C. S. Adler (Author)

Book Description

After her "always and forever friend" Meg moves away, Wendy discovers that finding another friend so special will not be easy.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Eleven-year-old Wendy is saddened when her best friend moves away, but she discovers the real meaning of friendship with a new classmate. PW said this novel "shows remarkable understanding of what makes friendship come . . . like a gift." Ages 8-12.
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From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5 Eleven-year-old Wendy is ex periencing most of sixth grade without her best friend, who has moved away. To compound her misery, her mother has recently married a man with a dif ficult teenage daughter and two wild younger sons. Wendy's first attempts to befriend Honor, a black classmate, are met with seeming coldness and in difference, until, at the end of the book, the two do become friends. Wendy realizes then that the friend she was seeking had been there all along. This is not a bad friendship sto ry, but there are some problems with characterizations and plot. The remar ried family with the troubled teenager, the black girl with a chip on her shoul der, the weird hyper kid in class, and the nasty popular girls crowd the story with too many issues. The melodrama is exacerbated by often syrupy prose such as ``a world so beautiful it hurt'' and ``She looked so teddy bear fun ny.'' Wendy is overdrawn as the goody-two-shoes, and this makes her difficult to like. Some better choices for this age group about making friends are Betsy Byars' The Cybil War (Viking, 1981) and The Pinballs (Harper, 1977), Constance Greene's A Girl Called Al (Viking, 1969), Patricia Hermes' Kevin Corbett Eats Flies (HBJ, 1986), and Betty Miles' The Trouble with Thirteen (Knopf, 1979). Elisabeth LeBris, Kenilworth Public School System, Ill.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Camelot (February 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380706873
• ISBN-13: 978-0380706877
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,584,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Always and Forever Friends, April 1, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Always and Forever Friends (Paperback)

Always and Forever friends was a great book. When Wendy's best friend moves away, Wendy thinks that she will never find another friend. Then Wendy begins to become friends with Hope who helps her not think about her best friend as much. In this story Wendy finds out what friendship is all about.

5.0 out of 5 stars Always and Forever Friends, April 1, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Always and Forever Friends (Paperback)

Always and Forever friends was a great book. When Wendy's best friend moves away, Wendy thinks that she will never find another friend. Then Wendy begins to become friends with Hope who helps her not think about her best friend as much. In this story Wendy finds out what friendship is all about.

4.0 out of 5 stars Another great book!, January 31, 2003

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"marmisty" (centreville, va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Always and Forever Friends (Paperback)

I really liked Always and Forever Friends. I think that a lot of people can read this book and relate it to whats happening in their own lives. It's by a great author too!