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title: "Real Friends"
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# Real Friends

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Review: Friendship and Growth - In Real Friends, acclaimed author Shannon Hale and talented illustrator LeUyen Pham collaborate to create an engaging graphic memoir that explores the complexities of friendship during childhood. The story follows Shannon, who has always shared a close bond with her best friend Adrienne, but their friendship faces a significant challenge when Adrienne begins to spend time with the popular Jen and her exclusive group, known simply as The Group. Shannon's journey is filled with emotional highs and lows as she navigates the ups and downs of this shifting dynamic. She grapples with feelings of insecurity and exclusion, questioning whether she will remain friends with Adrienne or if she is destined to be left out of the social circle dominated by bullying and competition for popularity. Real Friends is a heartfelt exploration of the formative years of friendships, highlighting the struggle to stand up for oneself and find genuine connections. With relatable themes and humorous illustrations, this graphic novel serves as a perfect conversation starter for discussing feelings of belonging and self-worth. It's an uplifting and insightful read that resonates with both children and adults, making it an essential addition to the libraries of fans of contemporary children's literature and graphic novels.
Review: Hit with 8 year old granddaughter - My 8 year old granddaughter loved it! In fact she’d go back and ‘reread’ portions of the book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #7,155 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Children's Books on Bullying #47 in Children's Comics & Graphic Novels (Books) #48 in Children's Friendship Books |
| Book 1 of 3  | Best Friends |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (8,813) |
| Dimensions  | 5.6 x 0.5 x 7.95 inches |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| Grade level  | 4 - 6 |
| ISBN-10  | 1626727856 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1626727854 |
| Item Weight  | 13.6 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 224 pages |
| Publication date  | May 2, 2017 |
| Publisher  | First Second |
| Reading age  | 8 - 11 years, from customers |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Friendship and Growth
*by M***E on November 26, 2024*

In Real Friends, acclaimed author Shannon Hale and talented illustrator LeUyen Pham collaborate to create an engaging graphic memoir that explores the complexities of friendship during childhood. The story follows Shannon, who has always shared a close bond with her best friend Adrienne, but their friendship faces a significant challenge when Adrienne begins to spend time with the popular Jen and her exclusive group, known simply as The Group. Shannon's journey is filled with emotional highs and lows as she navigates the ups and downs of this shifting dynamic. She grapples with feelings of insecurity and exclusion, questioning whether she will remain friends with Adrienne or if she is destined to be left out of the social circle dominated by bullying and competition for popularity. Real Friends is a heartfelt exploration of the formative years of friendships, highlighting the struggle to stand up for oneself and find genuine connections. With relatable themes and humorous illustrations, this graphic novel serves as a perfect conversation starter for discussing feelings of belonging and self-worth. It's an uplifting and insightful read that resonates with both children and adults, making it an essential addition to the libraries of fans of contemporary children's literature and graphic novels.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hit with 8 year old granddaughter
*by A***R on October 6, 2025*

My 8 year old granddaughter loved it! In fact she’d go back and ‘reread’ portions of the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A eye-opening tale of real-life friendship struggles.
*by H***E on August 25, 2017*

Shannon Hale is one of my favorite authors. I've read most of what she's written. I was definitely intrigued when I heard about this graphic novel based on her own childhood memories. It's not entirely memoir as Shannon herself explains in the back of the book. After all, human memory is certainly fallible and no two people experience the same situation in exactly the same way. Plus, she's changed a lot of names. But it's clear that the emotion behind the story is real. It certainly felt real to me, maybe because I could relate to some of the struggles that young Shannon has making, keeping, and losing friendships. Friendship can be a tricky thing, especially when clicks get involved as they so often do in elementary/middle school. When Shannon's dear friend, Adrienne, becomes part of "The Group", she tags along, hoping that she isn't going to lose her one and only friend. And she doesn't, not exactly, but she's not fully welcomed into "The Group" either. As Shannon's relationships with her friends fluctuate, she struggles with the unkindness that occurs as well as her own anxieties and frequent illnesses. In addition to her confusion about her friends, she struggles to get along with her older sister, Wendy. Shannon's dream of being a writer slowly develops as she works hard to figure out how to handle her relationship difficulties. LeUyen Pham does a phenomenal job illustrating Shannon's experiences. Not only does each person shine through in personality and appearance but Pham uses her own imagination to show the imaginative play that Shannon so enjoyed with her friends (I loved how Shannon always imagined her self as a strong female superhero of sorts, this so reminded me of the games I loved to play as a kid). In addition, demonstrating in a sometimes amusing, but often sad way the challenging relationship that Shannon had with her sister, Wendy is sometimes depicted as a giant, rather intimidating bear. This is a book that is bound to be loved just like Rain Telgemeier's Smile and Sisters, simply because young readers will be able to relate to it so well.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Real Friends (Real Friends, 1)
- Best Friends (Real Friends, 2)
- Friends Forever (Real Friends, 3)

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