{"product_id":"9780440226673","title":"The Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful, award-winning novel about friendship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhyllisia Cathy—She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up by classmates. What Phyllisia needs, God not being interested, is a friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Jackson—She is fifteen. Her clothes are unpressed, her stockings bagging with big holes. Her knowledge of school is zero. She has no parents, she swears and she steals. But she is kind and offers her friendship and protection to Phyllisia. “And so begins the struggle that is the heart of this very important book: the fight to gain perception of one’s own real character; the grim struggle for self-knowledge.”—Alice Walker, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012719427824,"sku":"9780440226673","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780440226673_p0.jpg?v=1769894077","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780440226673","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}