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This list features middle grade books (ages 8-12) about children dealing with toxic friendships. Most of these stories are focused on the character's journey of letting go and moving on from dysfunctional friends.
All too often, kids are told to put on a brave face when dealing with toxic friends or they are gaslit because they were "just joking" but it is important to help kids identify moments when their friends are disrespecting them and when to let go and foster better friendships with new people.
I do not count books where good best friends have a breakup and makeup situation. This list is about letting go of bad friends.
All too often, kids are told to put on a brave face when dealing with toxic friends or they are gaslit because they were "just joking" but it is important to help kids identify moments when their friends are disrespecting them and when to let go and foster better friendships with new people.
I do not count books where good best friends have a breakup and makeup situation. This list is about letting go of bad friends.
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Sleepovers
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Bye Forever, I Guess
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Vicky Angel
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Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
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Bad Girls
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Take It from the Top
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Girls Under Pressure (Girls, #2)
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score: 97,
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Flipped
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score: 97,
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It Happened to Anna
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score: 96,
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Bras & Broomsticks (Magic in Manhattan, #1)
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score: 95,
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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score: 94,
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11 books ·
2 voters ·
list created September 17th, 2025
by Georgina Warren (votes) .
Tags:
bullies, bully, dysfunction, female, fiction, friendship, girl, girl-power, girlfriends, girls, mg, middle-grade, therapy, toxic-friendship, tween
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Sep 19, 2025 08:29AM
One book features a girl that tries to reconnect with an old friend that left her for a popular clique but then realizes that it's better to let her go because she was never a true friend in the first place.
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