Friendship List 03 13 and Counting

Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7

Tweens will adore the third book in this true-to-life series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of thirteen goals they must achieve before their first summer apart. Now in paperback.

BFFs Ari and Kaylan are friends for life—a true team. But their thirteenth birthdays come with major family stuff, big secrets, and epic lunch table drama. So they decide to take charge by tackling a new list of thirteen resolutions to “keep crushing it as thirteen-year-olds” before they go to separate camps for the summer. But what happens when their bestie bucket list reveals major issues in their friend group? With everything shifting around them, will Ari and Kaylan’s friendship have to change too? Told in the alternating POVs of Ari and Kaylan—and with goals inspired by suggestions from readers—this contemporary coming-of-age story is bound to be the most heartbreaking and hilarious Friendship List yet.

About the Author

1) Lisa Greenwald is the acclaimed author of the TBH series and many other books for tweens.2) She’s a middle school librarian at the Birch Wathen Lenox School in Manhattan.3) She’s a graduate of the New School’s MFA program in writing for children.4) She lives on the Upper East Side with her husband, who she met at summer camp when she was sixteen.