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Bildungsromans
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Author:Dutton, ElizabethSummary: - Author:Parent, GillesSummary:
Préface de Jean-Luc Brassard May O’Leary, fille d’un millionnaire de Vancouver, Patrick Murphy de la Baie James et Simon Latour un écorché vif de Montréal sont trois adolescents décrochés de la famille, de l’école et de la société. Ils...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
All her life, Lark Brossard has felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother, Marianne; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliantly talented pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for...
- Author:Chee, AlexanderSummary:
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of...
- Author:Gunnery, SylviaSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Emily's world crumbles when her boyfriend dumps her and when she thinks her life can’t possibly get any worse, a series of secrets are revealed that threaten to tear her beloved family apart. Emily feels like she has...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
Emma is a literary classic by Jane Austen following the genteel women of Georgian-Regency England in their most cherished sport: matchmaking. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied. After a couple she has introduced gets...
- Author:Bell, MeghanSummary:
An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn't more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero...
- Author:Taylor, SusieSummary:
Daisy's job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy's old life disappears, and she is set free in the rift created between her parents. Susie Taylor's sharp, quick-...
- Author:Taylor, SusieSummary:
Daisy's job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy's old life disappears, and she is set free in the rift created between her parents.
- Author:Mass, WendySummary:
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
- Author:Foer, Jonathan SafranSummary:
Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his lovable Ukrainian guide. On their...
- Author:Shoup, BarbaraSummary:
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next' And can it please be completely unlike what happened before'" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer-or...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
From the author of the Jalna series comes the tale of three motherless young boys sent away by their father to boarding school while he travels the world. The boys’ explorations lead them further than their wild imaginations ever...
- Author:Foer, Jonathan SafranSummary:
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he...
- Author:Murphy, MonicaSummary:
Jake Callahan. Prince of the popular crowd. Quarterback. All the boys want to be his friend. He's the most popular boy in the senior class. And he hates me. Or so I thought. What I mistook for hatred turns out to be interest....
- Author:Ray BradburySummary:
"In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives...
- Author:Green, JohnSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet. As she heads for Biloxi,people befriend her, but her impact on their lives is seductive and unpredictable. Beautiful and naive, Fay...
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of...
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