Best Friend Trouble

Name: Best Friend Trouble
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Frances Itani
ISBN: 9781459811348

Author: Frances Itani

Narrator: Priscilla Holbrook

Unabridged: 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 03/25/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Hanna is fed up with her best friend, Lizzy, who is always trying to be better than her.
When Lizzy tells Hanna she can throw her ball farther and succeeds, it’s the last straw. Hanna is tired of feeling second best, but what she doesn’t realize is that sometimes she makes Lizzy feel that way too. Maybe there’s a way they can still be best friends after all.
A funny and relatable story about best friends, competition, and learning to see things from another’s point of view.

About Frances Itani

FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynn on June 06, 2020

Lizzy and Hanna are best friends, but when Lizzy does better at a game than Hanna - again, Hanna gets upset and goes home. She decides she doesn't need a best friend anymore. Soon after they get talking about it, and Hanna sees that she sometimes hurts Lizzy's feelings, too. This story nicely shows......more

Goodreads review by Marissa on September 09, 2019

This book was a cute was to share the life lesson of working through a friendship and realizing that sometimes the way you feel is also how others feel! I think that with the characters being animals its a great way you keep children captivated without it being a boring lesson!......more

Goodreads review by KaitandMaddie on March 24, 2022

We continue our social emotional learning around friendships. This one is quite instructive as the friends realize they have both been hurt and hurtful.......more

Goodreads review by Anneke on January 04, 2023

The story wasn't bad, the drawings were nice, but it was just too long.......more