"Paula and Maggie are best friends until Paula starts playing with some new friends instead, but when her new playmates turn on her, it's Maggie who rushes to Paula's defense"--

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who's living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

When Louie's best friend Amy moves to the other side of the world, Louie must find a way to reconnect with her.

A celebration of friendship and empathy follows the experiences of two best friends, whose shared activities of reading, laughing and playing together are interrupted on a day when one of them becomes consumed by anger and the other uses the power of their bond to help.

After Pinkalicious uses all of Alison's pink paint in class, she wonders how she can repay her best friend.

"I have so many super-amazing and IMPORTANT things to write about! I'll tell you all about them: I've got a brand-new bedroom-yay! My best friend Lucy moved away last week and I really miss her. I'm planning LOTS of cool inventions (I'm pretty sure some will work too!) Someone keeps sneaking into my room but I DON'T KNOW WHO! There's a new girl at school called Matilda. She looks fun . . . but why does she act so mysteriously all the time??? I'm going...

Although Rat and Roach sometimes fight and call each other names, such as "Crabby Head" and "Tuna Breath," they remain best friends.

Tiger is best friends with Monster who lives under her bed and scares nightmares away so Tiger has only good dreams, but waiting in the darkness is a nightmare so big and mean that Tiger and Monster will need to work together to chase it away.

"Tom and Jamie can't believe their luck when they find a secret entrance to a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs! The first dinosaur they meet is a friendly wannanosaurus. It eats the fruit from super-stinky ginkgo trees. But soon, Tom and Jamie meet a much less friendly dino: a Tyrannosaurus Rex that would like to eat them!"--P. [4] of cover.

Emma Kate and her best friend, a toy elephant, share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!