Alicia's Best Friends

Lisa Jahn-Clough. Walter Lorraine Books, $15 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-618-23951-1

The star of Alicia Has a Bad Day, Missing Molly and more returns in Alicia's Best Friends by Lisa Jahn-Clough. The bespectacled do-gooder finds herself in a pickle when she throws a ""best friends party"" and they all want to know which of them is her ""best"" best friend.

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