pen pals

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The lost treasure of the rainforest

1996
Camina invites her cousin Gladita and GlobalFriend Bethany to Rio de Janeiro for the Carnival celebration and the three girls get caught up in an adventure when they decide to explore the Amazon rainforest in search of a lost treasure.

Dream holiday

1990
Over the winter holidays, four roommates at a girls' boarding school agree to keep journals to share their vacation activities, and their pen pal letters, with their friends.

Olive becomes famous (and hopes she can become un-famous)

2019
Ten-year old Olive is going to be in a commercial, but she really is not sure she can land the gymnastics stunt written for it, and her cross-country email pal Molly is jealous and determined to get into a commercial herself (pretty much any commerical will do)--and now their friendship is threatened by their increasingly testy emails.

Get a grip, Vivy Cohen!

2020
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda

"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--Provided by publisher.

The year of secret assignments*

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
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This light between us

a novel of World War II
2020
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie L?vy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
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Extra credit

Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.

Same, same but different

Pen pals Elliott and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries--America and India--they both love to climb trees, own pets, and ride school buses.

Extra credit

Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.

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