Primary Audience: Parents

• Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

  Author(s)/URL: Lawrence Cohen , Catherine O'Neil Grace , Michael Thompson
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Bullying, Child Development, Friendship, Peer Relations, Relationships

• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

  Author(s)/URL: http://www.bbbsa.org
  Resource Type: Website

  Keyword(s): Community Resources, Family Support, Friendship, Relationships

• Cliques: Eight Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle

  Author(s)/URL: Charlene Giannetti , Margaret Sagarese
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Peer Relations, School, Self-Esteem, Tweens

• Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them

  Author(s)/URL: Michele Borba
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Feelings, Friendship, Peer Relations, Relationships

• Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids

  Author(s)/URL: Cathi Cohen
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Communication, Friendship, Peer Relations, Relationships, Skills

• Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning

  Author(s)/URL: Sanford Cohn , Barbara Kerr
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Boys, Education, Friendship, Giftedness, Peer Relations

• Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends, The

  Author(s)/URL: Natalie Madorsky Elman , Eileen Kennedy-Moore
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Communication, Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Friendship, Peer Relations, Relationships

Primary Audience: Children/Youth

• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret

  Author(s)/URL: Judy Blume
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Life Transitions, Moving, Puberty, Tweens

• Arthur's Back to School Day

  Author(s)/URL: Lillian Hoban
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Life Transitions, Relationships, Safety, School

• Back to School for Rotten Ralph

  Author(s)/URL: Jack Gantos
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Entertainment, Friendship, School

• Billy and the Big New School

  Author(s)/URL: Laurence Anholt
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Feelings, Friendship, Life Transitions, School

• Boomer Goes to School

  Author(s)/URL: Constance McGeorge
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions, School

• Bridge to Terabithia

  Author(s)/URL: Katherine Paterson
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Friendship, Grief, Life Transitions, Loss

• Captain Tommy

  Author(s)/URL: Abby Messner
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Autism Spectrum, Friendship, Peer Relations, Special Needs, Tweens

• Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love Annie: A Book About Secrets

  Author(s)/URL: Mari Evans
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Child Abuse, Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Feelings, Friendship

• Grandpa's Surprise

  Author(s)/URL: Rosalind Beardshaw
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Feelings, Friendship, Grandparents

• How to Be a Friend

  Author(s)/URL: Laurie Krasny Brown
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Bullying, Friendship, Relationships, Young Children

• Jack & Jim

  Author(s)/URL: Kitty Crowther
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Literacy, Physical Appearance

• Jessica

  Author(s)/URL: Kevin Henkes
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Entertainment, Friendship, Peer Relations, School

• Little Cliff's First Day of School

  Author(s)/URL: Clifton Taulbert
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions, School

• Little Miss Spider at Sunnypatch School

  Author(s)/URL: David Kirk
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Friendship, Life Transitions, School, Self-Esteem

• Little Witch Goes to School

  Author(s)/URL: Deborah Hautzig
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions, Peer Relations, School

• Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come

  Author(s)/URL: Nancy Carlson
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Friendship, Life Transitions, Peer Relations, School

• Meet the Barkers: Morgan and Moffat Go to School

  Author(s)/URL: Tomie DePaola
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Life Transitions, Peer Relations, School

• My Buddy

  Author(s)/URL: Audrey Osofsky
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Children with Special Needs, Friendship, Strengths

• Pinky and Rex and the New Baby

  Author(s)/URL: James Howe
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Adoption, Feelings, Friendship, New Baby, Siblings

• Rosie: A Visiting Dog's Story

  Author(s)/URL: Stephanie Calmenson
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, Health, Hospital, Special Population Resources

• Rudi's Pond

  Author(s)/URL: Eve Bunting
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Feelings, Friendship, Grief, Life Transitions, Loss

• Say Something

  Author(s)/URL: Peggy Moss
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Bullying, Friendship, Peer Relations, School

• School Trip

  Author(s)/URL: Tjibbe Veldkamp
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions, School

• Scooter

  Author(s)/URL: Vera B. Williams
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Divorce, Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions, Moving

• Sissy Duckling, The

  Author(s)/URL: Harvey Fierstein
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Bullying, Friendship, Self-Esteem, Sexual Orientation, Strengths

• Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

  Author(s)/URL: Barthe DeClements
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Education, Friendship, Learning Disabilities, Literacy, School

• Someone Special, Just Like You

  Author(s)/URL: Tricia Brown
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Children with Special Needs, Friendship, Peer Relations, Special Population Resources

• Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name

  Author(s)/URL: Avi
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Divorce, Entertainment, Friendship, Life Transitions

• Tiger Eyes

  Author(s)/URL: Judy Blume
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Friendship, Grief, Moving, Violence

• Timothy Goes to School

  Author(s)/URL: Rosemary Wells
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Feelings, Friendship, Life Transitions, Peer Relations, School

• View From Saturday, The

  Author(s)/URL: E. L. Konigsburg
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Friendship, School, Tweens

• Wemberly Worried

  Author(s)/URL: Kevin Henkes
  Resource Type: Book

  Keyword(s): Anxiety, Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Friendship, Life Transitions, School

Primary Audience: Professionals

• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)

  Author(s)/URL: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/familytools.html
  Resource Type: Website

  Keyword(s): Communication, Early Literacy, Emotional/Behavioral Challenges, Feelings, Friendship, Games, Infant Development, Relationships