Friendship Survival Guide
by Caroline Young, illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond and Helen Lang
Interest age: 12+
Reading age: 9+
Published by Usborne, 2023
About this book
Every friendship has its ups and downs, and books like these can help by offering some practical tips for how to navigate any problems that might arise. After all, friends are some of the most important people in our lives. It’s also worth thinking about how to be a good friend to them as well as thinking about how they’re treating you. This book offers practical and sensible advice, incorporating quizzes and questions to make the reader think about what they want in a friend, and how they measure up themselves, or what they would do in a certain situation.
Chapters include: how to make friends, good friends, best friends, groups and cliques, social media, frenemies, falling out and making up, and bullying.
With pages at the end to make notes on, such as what is really important to you in your life, and many quizzes, example scenarios and sensible advice, this is an invaluable guide to friendship. Ideal for upper primary and lower secondary pupils.
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