It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager. But outside her own family, no one knows the depth of her mental illness. For her daughter, Mercy, Sylvia’s...
Bildungsromans
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Author:Cooper, SallySummary: - Author:Wen, Abigail HingSummary:
Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted--at least Sophie and Xavier are friends now. Now that fall is here, they're focusing on what really matters. But the world doesn't seem to want them to succeed.
- Author:Oseman, AliceSummary:
WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021. The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - soon to be a major Netflix series. It was all sinking in. I'd never had a...
- Author:George, JessicaSummary:
It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from...
- Author:Kerbel, DeborahSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie Hill knows something is up when she arrives home to find her father making a home-cooked dinner, instead of his standard delivery pizza. But nothing prepares her for the bombshell announcement: Mackenzie and...
- Author:Douglas, Marion K.Summary:
"At age eleven, Julia Raine and her best friend Lois use a "magic eight ball" to channel the imaginary voice of Mrs. McCracken, a doll who gives advice on topics from romance to interior decoration. Magic Eight Ball...
- Author:W. P. KinsellaSummary:
Mike Houle is a college all-star second baseman in his junior year when he turns down a fourth-round draft pick offer from the Montreal Expos. He'll finish his business degree and try his luck again next year. But Mike's final...
- Author:James, MichaelSummary:
Magpies have an eye for shiny things. They search for bright bits of meaning amongst the dirt and filth of their world. Living in a small town on the outskirts of Saskatoon with his emotionally distant and alcoholic father, Ben...
- Author:Robinson, RandallSummary:
Makeda Gee Florida Harris March is a proud matriarch, the anchor and emotional bellwether who holds together a hard-working African American family living in 1950s Richmond, Virginia. Lost in shadow is Makeda's grandson Gray, who begins...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
Fanny Price, is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and intellectual achievement. But soon he discovers a life of success...
- Author:O'Hearn, AudreySummary:
Audrey O'Hearn has crafted an unforgettable story about a teenager becoming a man in this book for young adults. Matt's girlfriend is having his baby and plans to give it up for adoption. And that seems like the best thing for everyone...
- Author:Bracuk, DianeSummary:
We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but not necessarily growing up is the central theme of Middle-Aged Boys & Girls, featuring characters who, to varying degrees, are stuck in adolescent...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble service, falls for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon, much to her light-hearted sister’s dismay. Eight hundred pages of...
- Author:Polak, MoniqueSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Ani lives in the tiny Quebec town of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, where her family runs Saintly Souvenirs, a tourist shop catering to the many pilgrims who come to the town seeking a miracle. The bane of Ani’s existence is her...
- Author:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Summary:
In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets...
- Author:Kiesling, LydiaSummary:
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager...
- Author:Gagnon, PierreSummary:
«Léo est devenu vieux. Les vieux oublient, s'étouffent, font répéter, voient trouble, tombent, n'en veulent plus, en veulent encore, ne dorment plus la nuit, dorment trop le jour, font des miettes, oublient de prendre leurs médicaments...
- Author:Jones, Stephen GrahamSummary:
He was born an outsider and lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. But is he really...
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