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"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 bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
2) Extra credit
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When Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, Sadeed Bayat is chosen to be her pen pal...well, kind of. He is the best writer, but he is also a boy, and in his village it is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter, until Sadeed decides what his sister is telling Abby isn't what he'd like Abby to know. As letters go back and forth between Illinois and Afghanistan,...
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When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised.
7) Love, Simon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying, and life-changing.
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2008.
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English
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Eighth-grader Scarlett Northon has a secret. To sheild her daughter from hometown gossip, her mother ships Scarlett off to a prestigious all-girls charter school. In English class Scarlett receives a letter from a stranger pen pals that promises her in the next few weeks more letters with four true statements and one lie. The letter challenges Scarlett to find out which is the truth and which is the lie.
9) Dear dragon
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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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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2021.
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English
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Told through emails, journal entries, combative online reviews, text and tweets, this novel follows Fawn Birchill, who owns a used bookstore in West Philadelphia, as she goes up against a young indie bookseller while navigation a series of misguided and strained relationships.
11) EuroTrip
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen unrated version.
Language
English
Description
Mainstream, nice guy, high school senior Scott forms an online, pen-pal style friendship with German student Mieke in order to get a passing grade in his high school German class. When he finds out Mieke is a buxom blonde girl, he decides to travels to meet her with his pals Cooper, Jenny, and Jamie. The group of randy teens head to Berlin by way of London, Paris, and Amsterdam and it becomes the ultimate summer vacation party.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Writing a letter to Earth asking how they can help protect the planet, the students of Room 5 are thrilled by an ensuing year-long correspondence that teaches them how everyday kids can connect with the environment and make a difference.
13) Karen's pen pal
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 25
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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Karen thinks having a pen pal in New York City is very cool. But when her pal Maxie turns out to be a big bragger, Karen starts to make up stories.
15) Pen pal
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Tony Baloney volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Tony Baloney and his school are celebrating pen pal month! Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life, too!"--Page [4] of cover.
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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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This book is about friendship and the distinctions of living in different parts of the world. A giraffe that lives in Africa meets a pelican who is a mailman. Since the giraffe is bored, she sends a letter to the first animal the pelican can find on the other side of the horizon. The letter passes on to a seal who gives it to a penguin. He reads the letter and even though he does not understand it he writes back, and becomes the giraffe's pen pal....
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs, " while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
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