Friendship

These books about friendship can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:

  • Friendship

  • Friendship-Fiction

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC CHBOSKY

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC SAENZ

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC WEIN

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC THOMAS

Everything Everything

Nicola Yoon

The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated friendship that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC YOON

Looking for Alaska

John Green

The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated friendship that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC GREEN

After the Shot Drops

Randy Ribay

Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC RIBAY