Tag: friendship

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Watership Down

Richard Adams · 1972

Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.

2,550-word summary · 11 min read

The Giver of Stars

Jojo Moyes · 2019

Alice Wright joins Kentucky packhorse librarians with Margery and faces marriage strain and a murder trial.

3,439-word summary · 15 min read

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline · 2013

Foster teen Molly helps 91-year-old Vivian clear her attic and uncovers a hidden orphan-train childhood.

2,488-word summary · 11 min read

If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin · 2013

Childhood friends Autumn and Finn drift apart in high school until one August night changes everything.

2,785-word summary · 12 min read

Firefly Lane

Kristin Hannah · 2008

Best friends Tully and Kate grow from teens to adults through careers, love, and loss.

2,734-word summary · 12 min read

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney · 2021

Two friends Alice and Eileen trade letters while navigating love with Felix and Simon.

2,872-word summary · 13 min read

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green · 2017

Aza Holmes lives with intrusive thoughts while chasing a missing billionaire with Daisy.

2,007-word summary · 9 min read

The Maid

Nita Prose · 2022

Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead guest and must use her eye for detail to clear herself.

2,031-word summary · 9 min read

Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 2004

Good girl Rachel loves her best friend's fiance through a summer of weddings and lies.

2,100-word summary · 9 min read

In Five Years

Rebecca Serle · 2020

Dannie sees herself with another man in 2025, then meets him as her best friend Bella's boyfriend. A sad, readable story about plans, friendship, and grief.

2,748-word summary · 12 min read

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells · 1996

Sidda Walker, a theater director, fights with her mother Vivi after a New York Times interview, then learns Vivi's past through the Ya-Ya scrapbook from…

2,611-word summary · 12 min read

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson · 1977

Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.

2,673-word summary · 12 min read