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Bildungsromans
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Author:Tucker, HeatherSummary: - Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent...
- Author:Connor, LeslieSummary:
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings...
- Author:Hill, ErnestSummary:
When Tyrone Stokes was sent to prison, he left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's innocence,...
- Author:Calonita, JennySummary:
L’anniversaire conjoint de leurs seize ans approchant, les demi-soeurs Isabelle Scott et Mirabelle Monroe sont prêtes à s’émanciper, peu importe qu’elles soient les filles d’un personnage public important. Ainsi, quand Zoe, la tante qu’...
- Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:
Kia is sixteen and pregnant. Her world crumbles as she attempts to come to terms with the life growing inside her and what she must do. Initially convinced that abortion is her only option, Kia comes to understand that for her, the...
- Author:Hijuelos, OscarSummary:
Rico and his ex-druggie friend head to the country in search of something better than 1960s New York City but discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as those they left behind.
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms his life.
- Author:Napolitano, Ann.Summary:
A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame?as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash?in a heart-wrenching and life-affirming novel for readers of Small Great Things, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Immortalists...
- Author:Weber, LoriSummary:
Deep Girls tells stories that defy the conventions of young adult literature. The clichés of fictional relationships are tossed aside, and instead we read about girls whose relationships with their families are like the real...
- Author:Taylor, WhitneySummary:
Reggie isn't really a romantic: she's been hurt too often, and doesn't let people in as a rule. Plus, when you're dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it's hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets...
- Author:McWhirter, TeresaSummary:
Longlisted for the ReLit Award Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun.
Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning–with one's past, one's choices, and one's expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a...
- Author:Murray, MorganSummary:
In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario - not to be confused with Milton, Ontario - leaves his parents' basement in Middle-of-...
- Author:McFarland, AllieSummary:
Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?
This picture of Devin, alive when she should not be alive, triggers of a journey of grief and discovery...
- Author:Anappara, DeepaSummary:
Discover the “extraordinary” ( The Washington Post ) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” ( The New York Times Book Review ),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma)....
- Author:Blais, François, Sutcliffe, JCSummary:
Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault. Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling...
- Author:Warner, PatrickSummary:
Double Talk tells the story of Violet Budd and Brian (Baby) Power, two characters fleeing from their past. Brian is ambling after an immigrant’s dream, and Violet is desperate to ditch her middle class origins for something more earthy...
- Author:Murphy, JoniSummary:
Double Teenage tells the story of two young teenagers (best friends, Celine and Julie) who are coming of age in the 1990s along the US–Mexico border—a place where nothing seems to happen, but only because what counts as 'something' is...
- Author:Kelly, Adrian MichaelSummary:
Nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop. Not that skinny. Skin and bloody bone, boy. Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And away Dad goes out the door and thump...
- Author:Dutton, ElizabethSummary:
"Dutton's fiction debut is a stellar, thought-provoking novel about life, death, California, music, and more... . If you've never been to California, you might feel like you have visited after reading this creative and...
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