When Friendship Followed Me Home

<b>If you have middle schoolers who are too young to fully grasp&#160;<b>John Green&#146;s&#160;<i>The Fault in Our Stars</i></b>&#160;and love dogs give them this sweet tearjerker.&#160;&#151;&#160;<i>School Library Journal</i></b><br><b><br>In this beguiling tearjerker a foster kid's luck slowly changes after he befriends a scruffy pup he finds outside the library.--<i>People </i>magazine<br></b><br> Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books&#133;until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library. Scruffy little Flip leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley&#151;yes like&#160;the comet&#151;a girl unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben begins thinking of her as &#147;Rainbow Girl&#148; because of her crazy-colored clothes and her laugh pure magic the kind&#160;that&#160;makes you smile away the stormiest day.&#160; Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel&#160;with her.&#160; But as their story unfolds Ben&#146;s life begins to unravel and Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home.