Friendship Over

Meet Celie Valentine, a tween dealing with a lot of changes in her life! Ten-year-old Celie has quite a few things on her mind—fights with her sister Jo, secrets at school, an increasingly forgetful grandmother, and worst of all, a best friend who won't speak to her. How can a girl who hates change survive, when everything in her life is changing? By writing in her top-secret diary, of course.

Being ten is hard. Just ask Celie, who is at this moment:
 
·      Feuding with her best friend Lula (does she count as a best friend if she won’t even talk to Celie?)
·      Keeping secrets (from everyone)
·      Spying on her parents (and maybe reading emails that don’t belong to her)
·      Trying to figure out why her Granny is behaving so strangely (like freezing her trash)
·      Maybe—just maybe—stopping mean girls from ruling the day (well, at least one super-mean girl)
 
Celie's often comical and always heartfelt diary entries include notes, e-mails, homework assignments, and pages from her top-secret spy notebook. Here is the perfect tween series for young readers ages 8 – 12!

Julie Sternberg is the author of the best-selling Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie and its sequel, Like Bug Juice on a Burger. Formerly a public interest lawyer, she is a graduate of the New School's MFA program in Creative Writing, with a concentration in writing for children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. juliesternberg.com.

Johanna Wright lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, fuzzy cats, and two young children. She's illustrated Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage, Clover Twig and the Perilous Path, and several picture books, including The Secret Circus and Bunnies on Ice. johannawright.com.