About the Book
Get all of your favorite friends in one boxed set featuring these bestselling and beloved graphic memoirs: Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever!
From award-winning creators Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham comes a series about friendship, family, and finding your own path, inspired by Shannon's real life. This box set includes: Real Friends
When best friends are not forever...
When Shannon makes her first ever friend, she thinks she's found her bestie for life. But when her friend joins up with another circle of friends called The Group, Shannon feels left out. Will they stay friends? And is Shannon in The Group? Or out? Best Friends
Follow your heart. Find your people.
Now that Shannon's best friends with the most popular girl in school, sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. But suddenly, everyone has to watch the same shows, love the same songs, and like the same people. Is Shannon being true to herself? Friends Forever
Eighth grade. It's complicated.
Now a wise eighth grader, Shannon thinks she's got it figured out--her true friends, her favorite hobbies, and the key to happiness. But no matter what she does, Shannon never feels okay. Can she ever be truly happy--just as she is?
About the Author:
Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are best friends who have been publishing books for young readers for two decades. They have created three bestselling series together: the graphic novel Friends series, the early chapter book Princess in Black series (with Dean Hale), and the picture book Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn.
Shannon lives in Utah with her husband, four kids, and two cats where she writes award-winning novels like
The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, Dangerous, and the Newbery Honor winner
Princess Academy, and pens other books with her husband Dean, including
Diana, Princess of the Amazons (illustrated by Victoria Ying),
Rapunzel's Revenge (illustrated by Nathan Hale), and two novels about Marvel's unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
LeUyen lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two sons, a cat, and an orange gecko. She is the author/illustrator of the books
Big Sister, Little Sister, A Piece of Cake, The Itchy Book, and
Outside, Inside. She is also the illustrator of over 100 books for kids, including
Vampirina Ballerina by Anne Marie Pace
, Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, and
The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman. Her illustrations have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor for
Bear Came Along with Richard Morris.
Shannon and LeUyen plan to keep making books together for many years to come and to stay friends forever.
