Bessie Smith Connolly has lived with her Nova Scotia grandparents since she was small. But at seventeen'grieving the death of her steadfast grandfather, smarting from a split with the boy she loves'she escapes to Saskatoon to be with...
Bildungsromans
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Author:Endicott, MarinaSummary: - Author:Krueger, William KentSummary:
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
- Author:Mac, CarrieSummary:
At fifteen, Ethan is on the fast track to nowhere. In and out of group homes and constantly in trouble, he is fighting to find a sense of who he is. After breaking into an amusement park and being savaged by a police dog, Ethan is...
- Author:Bigué, GenevièveSummary:
Un phénomène naturel très rare cause tout un émoi à Rivière-aux-Corbeaux : le lac Kijikone a pris feu et est devenu un véritable brasier. On dit que lorsqu'il s'enflamme, tout ce qu'on y plonge se transforme en or....
- Author:Robb, David GlenSummary:
A trio of high school outcasts—Paul, Big, and Small—face the complicated world of predators and prey in high school and come to realize that overcoming life's challenges will take more than perseverance. Paul Adams is the shortest kid...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- Author:Balzac, Honoré deSummary:
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was--at first--afforded special treatment from...
- Author:Kelman, StephenSummary:
"Pigeon English is a triumph." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku is the second best runner in the whole of Year 7. Harri...
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
- Author:Kobayashi, TamaiSummary:
Not every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has...
- Author:Nanayakkara, TaraSummary:
At twenty-five, kindergarten teacher Priya must accept the loss of her parents in a plane crash. Her grief plunges her into an eating disorder. While her friends recognize that she is crying out for help, Priya denies it all as she...
- Author:Nanayakkara, TaraSummary:
At twenty-five, kindergarten teacher Priya must accept the loss of her parents in a plane crash. Her grief plunges her into an eating disorder. While her friends recognize that she is crying out for help, Priya denies it all as she...
- Author:Zorn, ClaireSummary:
In this award-winning novel, Hannah's journey through bullying and grief shows just how long old wounds can take to heal Hannah's world is in pieces, and she doesn't need the school counselor to tell her she has deep-seated...
- Author:SapphireSummary:
An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and...
- Author:Berger, Tamara FaithSummary:
It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator -- until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has...
- Author:Parker, John L.Summary:
This prequel to Once a Runner is the story of a world-class athlete growing up in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast.
- Author:Graff, Andrew J.Summary:
It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. Tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by...
- Author:Thomas, JoanSummary:
Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads. Shortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and...
- Author:Deane, SeamusSummary:
In postwar Northern Ireland, a boy tries to uncover the secrets of the adult world, a world in which every adult seems to have a secret. 1998, c1996.
- Author:Wiggin, Kate Douglas SmithSummary:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children’s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca’s joy for life...
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