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Friendship List #4

Lisa Greenwald · 2020
86/100
👍 Worth It

The Friendship List series wraps up with Ari at Camp Silver and Kaylan at comedy camp — two best friends deliberately apart for the summer, working a list of 13 and 3/4 ways to stay close. Lisa Greenwald's alternating chapters give both girls equal weight, and the social-awareness threading (Kaylan confronting bias at camp) lifts the story above pure summer fluff. It's a warm, satisfying finish for readers who've followed the series. The real caveat is accessibility: starting here without the earlier books means missing meaningful character history, so this works best as a series closer rather than an entry point. Low-stakes episodic plotting also means it's more cozy than gripping. Family-safe, recommended primarily for established fans of Ari and Kaylan.

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