The Friends

Book:	The Friends
Author:	Kazumi Yumoto
Honors:	1997 Batchelder winner 1997 Horn Book-fiction winner Score: 20.47
Genres:	Children's books Young Adult books
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.

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