# Don't Need Friends

**Author:** Carolyn Crimi
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 5–7
**First published:** 1999
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780385326438`
**ISBN-10:** `0385326432`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dont-need-friends
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other

## Themes

- animals
- rats
- friendship
- dogs

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2001 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2001 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2001 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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