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    Audiobook7 hours

    That's What Friends Do

    Written by Cathleen Barnhart

    Narrated by Vanessa Johansson and Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    A heartfelt and powerful debut novel for fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and John David Anderson, That’s What Friends Do is a book for anyone learning how to have the hard conversations about feelings, boundaries, and what it means to be a true friend. 

    Samantha Goldstein and David Fisher have been friends ever since they met on their town’s Little League baseball team. But when a new kid named Luke starts hanging out with them, what was a comfortable pair becomes an awkward trio.

    Luke’s comments make Sammie feel uncomfortable—but all David sees is how easily Luke flirts with Sammie, and so David decides to finally make a move on the friend he’s always had a crush on.

    Soon things go all wrong and too far, and Sammie and David are both left feeling hurt, confused, and unsure of themselves, without anyone to talk to about what happened.

    As rumors start flying around the school, David must try to make things right (if he can) and Sammie must learn to speak up about what’s been done to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9780062971647
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    That's What Friends Do
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    Cathleen Barnhart

    Cathleen Barnhart holds a BA in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. That’s What Friends Do is her first published novel.

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    • 4/5
      This account of Sammie is a powerful, yet cautious story about the issues of consent and sexual harassment written for for a middle-grade audience.Sammie Goldstein and David Fischer have been best friends since forever, but as the two come of age, they begin to feel the stirrings of something more than childhood friendship. David realizes he has a crush on Sammie, and is nervous about revealing his feelings to her. Enter new kid, Luke Sullivan, who is extremely cool and oh so handsome. He had moved to New Roque, which is a the New York City suburb. David sees him as immediate competition. Sammie, not up for changes wants to simply continue being friends with David and to keep her spot on the baseball team. There is a subplot here concerning Sammie and of her dad’s narrow minded view that softball is for girls and that anything for girls must be inferior. Sammie has played baseball with the boys for years and is quite a good baseball player who competes competently with the boys. One day David accidentally touches Sammie’s chest, and their friendship begins to unravel fast. During this time of confusion for everyone, even Luke, Sammie discovers a newfound camaraderie with the girls she had always dismissed as being too girly. This timely and necessary account is told in the alternating perspectives of the two white Jewish young people. I felt the the plot became a bit slow paced in the middle as the characters stumble painfully through constant failures to communicate. This was frustrating for this reader, as I wanted to help Sammie understand and deal with the complicated issues of middle school and home life. This is a carefully written story for the middle grades that address both the ways that misogyny and the sexual violation culture surface at that age and how it’s hard but necessary to get the help you need.