Cover of a children's book titled 'Harold's Friendship Friction' with a subtitle 'A Story About Relationships Changing.' It is part of the Harold Chronicles series, book 26, suitable for ages 10-12. The cover features two boys sitting on grass, one holding a book and the other holding a football, with a school building and trees in the background.

Harold’s Friendship Friction (Book 26)

Changing interests. A growing distance. A new normal.

✅ Laugh-out-loud chaos that kids actually finish

✅ Fast chapters + high momentum for reluctant readers

✅ A gentle life-lesson: changing friendships without the lecture

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🔀 About the Book

As high school deepens, Harold and Murphy drift toward entirely different interests. Harold must learn that a friendship changing shape doesn't mean it has failed.

Harold Mitchell is fourteen years old and stubbornly refusing to accept that things are changing. While his best friend Murphy is suddenly obsessed with new hobbies and new people, Harold tries desperately (and disastrously) to force everything to stay exactly the way it was in primary school.

This is the story of what happens when growing up pulls you in different directions, and the hilarious, bittersweet reality of learning to let friendships evolve.

The SEL Focus: Navigating Changing Friendships Target Age: 14–15 (Arc 5: The Growing Up Years)

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