pen pals

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Love from your friend, Hannah

a novel
1999
From her home in back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, Hannah writes letters to her best friend, a pen pal, and even to President and Mrs. Roosevelt.

P.S. write soon

a novel
1978
A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

Perfect strangers

2005
Madison and Jeremy are bitter enemies and are both running for president of their high school; but as the election gets nastier, Madison gets hooked up with an anonymous pen pal who calls himself Blue.

Extra credit

2010
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.

Earth to Clunk

2011
For a school assignment, a boy reluctantly writes a letter to Clunk of the planet Quazar, sending his older sister with it, but as more letters and packages are exchanged, he realizes that having an alien pen pal can be fun.

Dear pirate, the buried treasure mystery

2007
A pen pal pirates writes Peter Post and invites him and his sister to Key West where they encounter pirates of all sorts.

Letters from the past

1991
While visiting her great-grandmother, young Jessica finds letters written many years ago by a pen pal who survived the Titanic disaster.

Pen pals

1997
Her excitement at having a pen pal quickly turns to disappointment when Daisy, a second-grader, receives some unwelcome news about this new "friend.".

Pen pals

2000
Describes the advantages of having a pen pal and explains how to go about it.

The milk of birds

2013
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.

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