The Friend Who Moved On
by Rao Marupudi
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About this story
Some friendships change shape without ending. Jonah and Eli have been best friends since kindergarten: eleven-step handshake, Friday game nights and a notebook full of space-detective comics. Then Eli makes the travel basketball team. Now there's a new lunch table, new jokes, and a Friday photo Jonah isn't in. Can a friendship change shape without ending? A story about friendship and handling change. Ages 10-13, Grades 5-8.
- Friendship — a close bond between two people
- Change — when something becomes different
- Distance — a gap between people, in space or in feeling
- Jealous — unhappy because someone gets something you want
- Handshake — a special way of greeting each other
- Routine — the same things done again and again
- Adjust — to get used to something new
- Accept — to come to terms with how things are
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