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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"All children have imaginary friends, Georgina tells herself. It's perfectly normal, and they all grow out of it in the end. But when her seven-year-old son, Cody, tells her about New Granny, the new friend he's met in the park, Georgina is instantly suspicious. Something-call it maternal instinct-tells her he isn't making it up. But maybe Georgina is losing her mind. It wouldn't be the first time, after all. And with her own mother's recent death...
3) Jessica
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ruthie does everything with her imaginary friend Jessica; and then on her first day at kindergarten, she meets a real new friend with the same name.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend-- the imaginary Shadow Boy-- Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey to the bustling city, where he finally meets his perfect match and'at long last'is given his special name: Beekle. The #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Dan Santat'creator of After the Fall and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2001
Description
From a highly acclaimed author-the enchanting, bittersweet story of a motherless young woman torn between real life and the otherwordly companions only she can see.
On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window-a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in the small town of Troon, Scotland.
As a child, Eva is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy builds a sand castle on the beach and a dragon moves in. The boy and the dragon spend the day at the shore flying a kite, braving the waves, defying bullies, and roasting marshmallows, while the boy's parents remain occupied nearby with their own pastimes. When no one believes the boy's story about the dragon, the creature launches into a mischievous mode and wreaks havoc on everything in its path-- or is it all in the boy's imagination?...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Did you know that if the conditions are just right, and if you add a little electricity, or magic, or luck, that an imaginary friend might appear just when you need one? An imaginary friend like Fred. Fred is the best imaginary friend you could ever hope for, but no matter how hard he tries, the same thing always happens: his friend finds a friend in the real world, and Fred fades away, bit by bit, waiting to be wished for again... Then one day,...
9) Real to me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told from the perspective of an imaginary friend who grapples with the complex feelings of growing apart from their human.
10) Pingo
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Teased by his friends for having an imaginary playmate, Chad tries to bid Pingo farewell but Pingo refuses to leave.
11) Paper man
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Richard Dunn, a no-hit wonder of a novelist, is sent to Long Island by his wife, who expects him to get cracking on his next novel. Dunn isn't totally alone, though. Along for the ride is a local teen who befriends Richard after he hires her to be a babysitter. His babysitter. Plus, there's Richard's imaginary best friend from childhood, Captain Excellent, a confidante always ready to prod him along toward adulthood, whether Dunn wants it or not.
12) Ellie's dragon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Ellie is very small, she finds a tiny dragon just hatched from its egg. Ellie calls him Scratch, takes him home, and moves him into her dollhouse. Her mother can't see Scratch, and her teacher doesn't notice when Ellie takes Scratch to preschool, but her friends are amazed. But dragons get quite large as they grow. And Ellie is growing, too, moving from dollhouses to dance parties with friends, not noticing as Scratch's form begins to fade a...
13) Harvey
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2000, 1950
Description
Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. His sister is determined to marry her daughter off and decides to commit her brother to a mental hospital to get him out of the way. Due to a mix-up the sister is committed instead, and it is up to the kindly brother and his imaginary friend to straighten things out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When Dory's best friend learns to read before she does, Dory retreats into her wild imagination and finds herself in the middle of one of the babyish books she is struggling to read where she encounters imaginary friends and enemies"--
15) Telling lies
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In order to win back her ex-boyfriend, by making him jealous, Faith and her friend Eve invent a man named Vincent. Things seem to be going right until a detective accuses Faith of murdering Vincent, and tries to convince her that Eve is the invention.
16) Brightwood
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Rumple Buttercup has 5 crooked teeth, 3 strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird. Join him and Candy Corn Carl (his imaginary friend made of trash) as they learn the joy of individuality as well as the magic of belonging."--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling author of Woman with a Secret and The Monogram Murders. You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better. You've left the city and the career that nearly...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Help! This little girl has lost her best friend. He's a dinosaur (not the extinct kind). He's enormous (bigger than a panda!). He was last seen before she gave him a bath and washed off all the mud (maybe that wasn't a good idea?). She's tried to lure him with snacks and put up Lost Dinosaur posters, but nothing has helped. If only it weren't such a clear day--if only it were raining, or snowing, or the leaves were falling, or something. Would it...
20) We forgot Brock!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Phillip and Brock are best friends, although everyone else thinks Brock is imaginary, so when Phillip gets tired out at the Big Fair while Brock is still having fun, they are separated and it will take a very special twosome to bring them back together again.
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