Best Friends Forever?

By Michele Jakubowski and Harry Roland

Opposites go together. Just ask Ashley Sanchez (Ash) and Ashlee Taylor (Lee), who have been best friends forever. Ash is messy as can be, and Lee likes things neat and tidy. Ash loves sports and Lee prefers dance. Ash doesn’t like chocolate, but Lee could eat it all day long. Ever since they were born, Ash and Lee have lived in the same apartment building, just across the hall from each other, but now that’s about to change. When Lee moves a few blocks away, will the two girls find a way to stay best friends forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Jan 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781515800286

Michele Jakubowski

Working at a school (and having two of her own children) gives Michele Jakubowski more than enough experiences to draw from when writing middle-level fiction. Michele has also written other popular books in the Sidney & Sydney series and the Perfectly Poppy early chapter book set. Michele lives in Powell, Ohio, with her husband, John, and their children, Jack and Mia.

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Chapter One

RAINY DAY

It was a very rainy day — too wet to go outside and play. Best friends Ashley Sanchez and Ashlee Taylor were stuck inside the Sanchezes’ apartment with nothing to do.

We could build a fort, Ashley Sanchez said.

I don’t feel like doing that, replied Ashlee Taylor.

Even though they shared a name, and were both eight years old, Ashlee and Ashley were different in almost every way.

Ashlee Taylor’s friends liked to call her Lee. She was tall and a bit shy. Ashley Sanchez was known as Ash. She was small and outgoing.

Lee and Ash were always together. Their friends started calling them Ashley Small and Ashlee Tall.

I’ve got an idea! Ash said.

She jumped off the couch and bounced out of the room. When she returned, she was carrying a huge book.

Lee knew right away what it was. Your photo album! she cheered. Let me go and get mine.

Lee jumped up gracefully. She skipped out of the apartment. When she returned a few minutes later, she was carrying her own photo album.

The girls settled in beside each other on the couch. They opened their books.

Here I am as a baby, Ash said.