Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug...
Bildungsromans
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Author:Canning, BridgetSummary: - Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:
Scarlett was always the strong one. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. Then Scarlett's boyfriend died, and she learned that she was pregnant. Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett get...
- Author:Robinson, EdenSummary:
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in...
- Author:Lyon, George EllaSummary:
In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
- Author:Assadi, Hannah LillithSummary:
Based on true events, Hannah Assadi's fierce and raging debut novel tracks the shattered, illuminated psyche of a young woman seizing her own adulthood Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the...
- Author:Foley, Jessie Ann.Summary:
Printz Honor winner and William Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley's latest YA novel is a comitragic coming-of-age story about an awkward teenage guy who, after the loss of his brother, finds healing and a sense of self where...
- Author:Conroy, Pat.Summary:
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother...
- Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:
Kabul, 1978. The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani, lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. But the ten-year-old's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the...
- Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:
When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives....
- Author:Tagaq, TanyaSummary:
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
An ad in the students' union "2 females seek flatmate. No bigots" leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael. But one day, something Maria glimpses by accident forces her to question everything she...
- Author:Williams, LaraSummary:
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites-and their physical spaces-that posits the question: If you feed a starving woman, what...
- Author:Garvin, JeffSummary:
Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List * 2017 Rainbow. A sharply honest and moving debut perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a...
- Author:McKeen, EricaSummary:
Tear is both a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman and a bristling reclamation of female rage. Blurring the real and the imagined, this lyric debut novel unflinchingly engages with contemporary feminist issues and explores the...
- Author:Brunt, Carol RifkaSummary:
June Elbus' uncle is her best friend, the only person who understands her. When he dies, far too young, fourteen-year-old June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life--someone who...
- Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:
As far as Haven is concerned, there's just too much going on. Everything is changing, and she's not sure where she fits in. Haven's sister's old boyfriend shows up, sparking memories of the summer when they were all...
- Author:Leung, CarrianneSummary:
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award-shortlisted WONDROUS WOO. The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses,...
- Author:De Goldi, KateSummary:
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own,...
- Author:Hepinstall, KathySummary:
Simon Jester's past is full of secrets. Ony his step-children, 12-year-old Alice and her older brother Boone, know the true darkness that lies in his heart. When terror invades their lives, the two children are forced to attempt daring...
- Author:Bellow, SaulSummary:
Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each...
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