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DoctorSerenitySquid
Since: Nov, 2010
12th Feb, 2012 05:14:35 PM
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cbaker
Since: Nov, 2015
7th Jun, 2016 03:05:26 AM
Belated, but the second is likely Always and Forever Friends.
http://www.amazon.com/Always-Forever-Friends-C-Adler/dp/0380706873
Two books I vaguely remember reading as a kid, but the titles escape me:
The first was a picture book in which a little boy's dinosaur-shaped birthday cake turns into a real dinosaur. The dinosaur ends up in a zoo and is miserable, so the boy helps it escape and takes it somewhere it will be safe from the people who want it in the zoo.
The second was about a girl who tries to befriend two new students at her school. She initially succeeds with the one who turns out to be a jerk, but makes friends with the other girl toward the end. I think there was also a subplot about how one of the girls (can't remember which) is bi-racial and is ashamed of having a white mother because her grandmother hates white people.