cover image Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend

Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend

Marilyn Singer. HarperCollins Publishers, $3.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-440353-5

Told in a lively, first-person narrative, Emma's dilemma involves characters ranging from dazzling classmate Marguerite Perrier (``even her name is pretty'') to the President of the U.S. (``he made me lose my best friend''). Ages 7-10. (Feb.)