Atwood, Megan
Summary: When Olive makes up a story about a trip to Paris to impress her New York pen pal Molly, the lies quickly get out of hand, and threaten their long distance friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWAtwood, Megan
Summary: Pen pals Molly and Olive consider themselves best friends even though they have never actually met because Molly lives in New York City and Olive lives on a farm in Iowa--but when Olive finds a diamond bracelet in the grass the two girls start to wonder if they can finally get the money for one of them to visit the other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWAtwood, Megan
Summary: After a string of incredibly good luck, Molly decides that she has developed magical powers--but when she finds out that her pen pal Olive has had an equally surprising run of minor disasters Molly starts to wonder if her magical good luck is somehow responsible for her friend's problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWFunk, Josh
Summary: When pen pals - and polar opposites - Connie and Nic prepare to meet for the first time at the end-of-year festival, they are in for quite a shock but find that nothing can get in the way of true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FUNAtwood, Megan
Summary: Ten-year old Olive is going to be in a commercial, but she really is not sure she can land the gymnastics stunt written for it, and her cross-country email pal Molly is jealous and determined to get into a commercial herself (pretty much any commercial will do)--and now their friendship is threatened by their increasingly testy emails.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWAtwood, Megan
Summary: Molly who lives in New York City, and Olive who lives on a farm in Iowa are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWAlbertalli, Becky
Summary: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALBAtwood, Megan
Summary: Pen pals Molly and Olive are both having relationship problems in their third grade classes--Molly is struggling with Jenna, a new girl, who seems to think that name calling is a way to fit in, and Olive has joined a gymnastics team which is putting a strain on her friendship with Emma, whom she has know for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWWhitman, Sylvia
Summary: When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHIPark, Ginger
Summary: Lily and her grandpa are good pen pals, so when he dies and leaves behind a rice paper scroll he was painting for her, Lily finishes the scroll with help from her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARSo, Cynthia
Summary: "This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOKostecki-Shaw, Jenny Sue
Summary: Pen pals Tulsi and Vanessa discover that even though life in their countries--Tanzania and America--is very different, they still have a lot in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOSClements, Andrew
Summary: As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CLEFunk, Josh
Summary: As a school project, George and Blaise become pen pals, writing rhyming letters about their favorite things to do, unaware that one is human and the other a dragon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FUNKapit, Sarah
Summary: Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Mina wonders if the new girl who looks and acts like a zombie may be her long-lost pen pal from New Orleans who stopped writing after Hurricane Katrina. By choosing a specific page, the reader determines the story's ending.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUBivald, Katarina
Summary: It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life; has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIVBivald, Katarina
Summary: "Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIVFuller, Kathleen
Summary: "When a postal error creates pen pals of two young Amish people, can they put behind their past mistakes to see the bright future God has written for them?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION FULIwasa, Megumi
Summary: When Giraffe decides to write a letter and send it to the other side of the horizon, he finds a penguin pen pal and the two curious animals begin to exchange letters to try to learn more about each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED IWAKostecki-Shaw, Jenny Sue.
Summary: Pen pals Elliot and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries--America and India--they both love to climb trees, have pets, and ride a school bus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2020
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Summary: Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOBrown, Marc
Summary: After bragging to his pen pal about his basketball skills, Arthur realizes that he has to make good on his boasts when the pen pal comes to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001