Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left their small town before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in....
Bildungsromans
- Author:Francis, BrianSummary:
- Author:Tsiang, Sarah Yi-MeiSummary:
When Ally's mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets Tate, a busking fire breather, she...
- Author:Andreades, Daphne PalasiSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York-a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. "An...
- Author:Abrahams, PeterSummary:
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
- Author:Shrake, EdwinSummary:
Fort Worth lawyer Ben Carpenter is facing an almost unwinnable case against a powerful Dallas businessman. It could shatter Ben's career. When his friends throw him a riotous 30th birthday party, at first Ben is depressed. But someone...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. Tasmin's husband scouts ahead and falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, who dies at the hand of the ruthless commander of the Spanish troops...
- Author:Lee, EmerySummary:
From the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that's brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters.Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds....
- Author:Sinnott, SusanSummary:
This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade....
- Author:Aidoo, Ama AtaSummary:
Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy...
- Author:Bennett, Claire-LouiseSummary:
Checkout 19 follows a young woman who finds herself in love, in conflict with life and death, and in a life made of books, where the act of turning the page is a way of carrying on living. Fearlessly inventive in its form, merging...
- Author:Scarsbrook, RichardSummary:
This compelling coming of age story will leave older teenage boys alternatively snorting with laughter and silently shivering in recognition at the strength and power of bullies. Dak Sifter grows from a bright, 12-year-old beginning to...
- Author:Song, JadeSummary:
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of...
- Author:Acevedo, ElizabethSummary:
Separated by distance, and their father's secrets, two sisters are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.
- Author:Craft, JerrySummary:
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying 'You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.' His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn't afforded...
- Author:Colette, Sidonie GabrielleSummary:
Claudine is the prettiest, smartest and wildest girl in her class. A mischievous 15-year-old who delights in rollicking through the dusty corridors of a parochial school in provincial France, Claudine manipulates her less-astute...
- Author:House, SilasSummary:
Clay Sizemore loves his home in Free Creek, but he longs for more. Since the death of his mother when he was four, he has felt the absence of family. His father left, and he has no siblings. But finally, through the love of others, he...
- Author:McCullough, KimSummary:
In this powerful Canadian coming-of-age novel, Claire and her Metis friend Jeff both struggle to overcome loss and dislocation, to restart their emotional growth and reconnect with the central people in their lives -- including each...
- Author:Murphy, MonicaSummary:
We are that toxic high school couple you hear about, the one you witness in the hallway as they avoid each other. Finally it's our senior year and we're months away from never having to see each other again when disaster...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel'a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan'from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author...
- Author:Zentner, AlexiSummary:
What do we do when the people we love hold beliefs that are fundamentally incompatible with who we are? All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem...