When Friendship Followed Me Home Author:Paul Griffin "If you have middle schoolers who are too young to fully grasp John Green?s The Fault in Our Stars and love dogs, give them this sweet tearjerker." ? School Library Journal — "In this beguiling tearjerker, a foster kid's luck slowly changes after he befriends a scruffy pup he finds outside the library."--People magazine — Ben Coffin has never been... more » one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books?until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library. Scruffy little Flip leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley?yes, like the comet?a girl unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben begins thinking of her as ?Rainbow Girl? because of her crazy-colored clothes and her laugh, pure magic, the kind that makes you smile away the stormiest day. Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel with her. But as their story unfolds Ben?s life begins to unravel, and Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home.« less