num_pages: 32
description: It's summertime at the neighborhood pool, and Lily has her best friend picked Tamika. But Tamika already has a best friend and doesn't care about Lily. No matter how hard Lily tries to impress Tamika—from getting Mama to buy her a new bathing suit to having Daddy help her practice her dive—nothing works. Told in Lily's honest first-person voice and paired with beautiful water color illustrations by E. B. Lewis, this charming story will help kids learn about what a true friend really is.
language: English
title: My Best Friend
titlecomplete: My Best Friend
genres: Childrens, African American, Picture Books, Fiction, Kids, Cultural, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 238
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Charlotte Zolotow Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
category: New Writer
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers