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Best Friend Next Door by Carolyn Mackler
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Best Friend Next Door

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Length 4 hours 43 minutes
Language English
Narrators Tara Sands & Cassandra Morris

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Printz Honor-winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Carolyn Mackler brings honesty and charm to this middle-grade debut tracing the friendship of two girls.

Meet Hannah. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year's. Her mom died when she was little. She wishes she had a cat. She's medium height and a little gawky. She's being raised by her dad and stepmom, and just found out they're having a baby. Now she'll never get a real mom. And to top it off, Emme, the new neighbor, is taking over her best friend's bedroom...and her identity.

Meet Emme. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year's. She has two moms, which recently has been feeling like one mom too many. She's so short that last week she was mistaken for a kindergartner. She loves her enormous orange cat. She used to be an optimist (harder these days). At least there's Hannah. Maybe they'll become friends?

But while Hannah and Emme are alike in so many ways, they're different in all the wrong ways. Is this the perfect friendship, or a recipe for disaster?

Carolyn Mackler is the Printz Honor-winning author of many books for young adults, including THE FUTURE OF US (written with Jay Asher) and THE EARTH, MY BUTT, AND OTHER BIG ROUND THINGS. She was born in Manhattan, where she still lives with her family. For more about Carolyn, visit www.carolynmackler.com.

Tara Sands spent two years as the host of "Fridays" on The Cartoon Network. She lives in New York and Los Angeles where she works in television and theater. Her voice can be heard on numerous television and radio commercials, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks.

Cassandra Morris lives in Los Angeles and has received critical acclaim for her voiceover work from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY and AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE, and was nominated for a 2010 Audie Award for THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG. To date, she has narrated over 100 audiobooks.

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