num_pages: 256
description: Finding a friend isn't easy.Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood Lenore is everyone's friend of choice. She has her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop, her own pink phone, and a canopy bed. The most Pearl hopes for is to be included as one of Lenore's followers.Then outcast Artemesia comes into Pearl's life. Artemesia is everything Pearl dreams of being -- a dancer and an artist. But then Lenore makes it clear she can't stand Artemesia, Pearl does the worst thing possible.And she still hasn't got a friend.Or has she?
language: English
title: Some Friend
titlecomplete: Some Friend
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers