Fake Friends

By Kimani Upshur, M.Ed.

Fake Friends — Spotting Them, Leaving Them, Finding Real Ones — works through teen friendship in twelve chapters across three movements, anchored on Proverbs 13:20: "Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise." It opens with the Lunch Table Test and the triad "Notice. Choose. Become.": first, spotting them — the Friend Audit, the User, the Disappearing Act, jealousy wearing a smile; then leaving them — the breakup nobody talks about, boundaries, the lonely middle, and forgiving without reopening; then finding real ones, measured against the Jonathan Standard. Every chapter ends with "Your move this week." The book closes with "A Personal Invitation: Give Your Life to Jesus Christ," including the Sinner's Prayer and what comes next. Scripture quotations are from the ESV. Written from a Christian worldview — Scripture first.

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