The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell

Kate and Marylin are best friends forever....

Well, except for last year when they weren't friends anymore...

And except for this year when they both want to be friends again, but just don't know how.

But the thing is, even as they are trying to fix their broken friendship, they are becoming more and more unalike. And that's becoming harder and harder to deal with.

It would make things a whole lot simpler if Kate would just take some of Marylin's fashion advice. What's with the guitar? And why on Earth is cheerleading so important to Marylin? She won't even stand up to Mazie, the Meanest Cheerleader Ever. With the divide that is growing between them, is there any hope that Kate and Marylin can ever be friends again?

Join Kate and Marylin in sixth grade, when their friendship was first put to the to test.