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| "The Friendship Matchmaker" by Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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"The Friendship Matchmaker" is about a girl named Lara Zany who has a slightly different approach to friendships and going to school itself. She believe school is like a "battlefield" and you have to fight your way through. Everyone at school knows her for holding seminars at recess to help repair and create friendships, and often confide in her. One day a new girl shows up at school and Lara decides to give her fashion and friendship advice, but it doesn't work out well...she believes friends can just be friends without strings attached or having to be a certain way around them. They soon find themselves competing to see who can make 1 person a new "best friend forever" first. This is when Lara turns to her "Total Loner List". She separates many kids at her school into lists that tell her who could, might, and just can't make friends. She decides to choose a girl off her list that has hair that often looks like it's went un-brushed for awhile and shows up to school in over-sized animal sweaters. Lara begins to like being around until she reminds herself the "Friendship Matchmaker" can't have friends. She often reminds herself and one day faces what made her write her book on the dos and don'ts of friendships and even try to educate others on a growing problem; Friendship breakups, and the perks and querks of a trio.
NOTE; Not for any specific gender, but is female main character based.
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