We Used to Be Friends (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781419738661)

Two best friends grow up--and grow apart--in Amy Spalding's innovative contemporary YA novel.

Told in dual timelines--half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward--We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties.

At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open.

Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more than James to continue to be her steady rock, as James worries that everything she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school sweetheart parents announce they're getting a divorce.

Funny, honest, and full of heart, We Used to Be Friends tells of the pains of growing up and growing apart.

"Amy Spalding knows that best friendships are love stories, and this one is complex, earnest, and unflinching. A must-read for anyone who's ever had or lost a friend." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda


Author: Amy Spalding
ISBN-10: 1419738666
ISBN-13: 9781419738661
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 515239 / We Used to Be Friends


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 55
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2019
School Library Journal 12/01/2019 pg. 93
BookPage 01/01/2020