In Into? North Morgan shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, freed from the shadow of AIDS and elevated by popular culture, but plagued by a new set of problems,...
Bildungsromans
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Author:Morgan, NorthSummary: - Author:Merriman, EileenSummary:
'I wish I wasn't the weirdest sixteen-year-old guy in the universe.' Felix would love to have been a number. Numbers have superpowers and they're safe, any problem they might throw up can be solved. 'If I were a...
- Author:Hosey, SaraSummary:
Running away from home hasn't solved Iphigenia Murphy's problems. In fact, it's only a matter of time before they'll catch up with her. Iffy is desperate to find her long-lost mother, and, so far, in spite of the...
- Author:Crutcher, ChrisSummary:
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
- Author:Mittlefehldt, RafiSummary:
In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away.
A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike’s father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend,...
- Author:June, ChristinaSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is settling in for the worst summer on record. After she's unfairly implicated in one of her best friend's ideas gone awry, Tatum's stepmother places her under virtual house arrest. But to...
- Author:Han, JennySummary:
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
- Author:Polisner, Gae.Summary:
An unforgettable look at romance and friendship through the eyes of a teen girl who's ready to grow up, but maybe not as ready as she thinks Fifteen-year-old JL Markham's life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot...
- Author:Turton, TanyaSummary:
For fans of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman...
- Author:Brontë, CharlotteSummary:
Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets. Possibly the world’s most romantic book about child abuse,...
- Author:Flanery, Sean PatrickSummary:
A coming of age debut audiobook from accomplished actor, director, and writer Sean Patrick Flanery explores that powerful first taste of love that sets the bar for something that we'll chase, usually unsuccessfully, for the rest of...
- Author:Copeland, ElizabethSummary:
“There is a shadow of a boy walking within me. His spirit is lightning fire. He will not be shackled. At birth, I was labeled a girl. My name is Jazz. Like the music, I am nature’s improvisation." When he is forced to leave his suburban...
- Author:Whitehead, JoshuaSummary:
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and...
- Author:Bunting, EveSummary:
When teenagers in a California coastal community challenge each other to "jump the Nail"--leap from dangerous cliffs into the ocean--group pressure and manipulative relationships quickly drive the game out of control.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as they both head to the randomly chosen...
- Author:Choi, Ann Y. K.Summary:
This bittersweet coming-of-age novel, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost...
- Author:Hale, ShannonSummary:
From bestselling author Shannon Hale comes Kind of a Big Deal : a hilarious, delicious YA novel that will suck you in—literally. There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was...
- Author:Chan, MartySummary:
In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, amateur magician Kylie has to work hard to be taken seriously.
- Author:Lalonde, CatherineSummary:
Entre le conte de fées enragé et la reprise hallucinée des récits d’apprentissage, entre la forêt de Sainte-Amère-de-Laurentie et la grande ville électrique, La dévoration des fées raconte le sort de la p’tite, de Grand-maman et de...
- Author:Lalonde, SarahSummary:
L'été qui commence est rempli de promesses pour Lou Lafleur. Follement amoureuse de Justin, son premier vrai copain, Lou a déniché un boulot dans une crèmerie. Mais l'allégresse de Lou se transforme en détresse quand Justin lui annonce...
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