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Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Kate's idyllic life in Baton Rouge takes a drastic turn when a mysterious shoulder pain reveals she has Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a rare genetic disorders, challenging her to adapt with support from loved ones and a pen pal, Amie, who shares her experience with FOP.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
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 years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure (Chooseco) volume 34
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Mina has a penpal but they lost touch, now a new girl in school named Sam, might be that long lost penpal and a zombie besides, as the reader chooses a specific page, the reader determines the story's ending.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
For a school assignment, a boy reluctantly writes a letter to Clunk of the planet Quazar, sending his older sister with it, but as more letters and packages are exchanged, he realizes that having an alien pen pal can be fun.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"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...
8) Extra credit
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Arbordale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Leslie, a young girl who plans to be a dragon hunter one day, becomes pen pals with Komo, a Komodo dragon who tells her all about himself and dangers to his species. Includes a section with additional facts.
Author
Publisher
Castillo de la lectura
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Elliot y Kailash son amigos por correspondencia. Viven en lugares lejanos y muy distintos. Sin embargo, al intercambiar cartas y dibujos, descubren que los dos tienen mascotas, que les encanta subirse a los árboles y que ambos van a la escuela en autobús. Sus mundos pueden parecer diferentes, pero en realidad, son muy similares. ¡Iguales, pero diferentes!" --de la contraportada.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
392 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe, discussing how a class assignment was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
200 pages cm
Description
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.
14) Letters to God
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eight-year-old Tyler is armed with strong faith and courage as he faces a battle against cancer. His prayers take the form of letters he sends to his ultimate pen pal, God, on a daily basis. These letters find their way into the hands of Tyler's postman, Brady, who is at a crossroads in his life, and is searching for meaning. Brady is at first is confused over what to do, but his decision ultimately is a testament to the power of Tyler's shining spirit,...
15) Dear dragon
Author
Publisher
Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
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.
16) Dear Blue Sky
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Shortly after Cass's big brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes pen pals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war"--
17) Mary and Max
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mary is a lonely eight-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne. Struggling with questions that no one can answer, she writes to Max, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in New York City, which starts a friendship that spans 20 years and two continents.
18) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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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