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Coming of age

  • Crunch
    Author:
    Connor, Leslie
    Summary:

    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...
  • Cracked Pots : A Novel
    Author:
    Tucker, Heather
    Summary:

    'It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing.' — San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker's debut, The Clay Girl From...
  • Cheyenne : a timeless series novel, volume 1
    Author:
    Wiedmeier, Lisa L.
    Summary:

    Murder, romance, secrets and hidden pasts. Deception from every angle—who's telling the truth? Cheyenne Wilson's life is thrown into turmoil after her adoptive parents are killed in an accident. With only her best friend Colt to comfort...
  • Calling my name
    Author:
    Tamani, Liara
    Summary:

    Told in fifty-four short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, this novel follows Taja Brown on her journey from middle school to high school while living in Houston, Texas.
  • Brooklyn Rose
    Author:
    Rinaldi, Ann
    Summary:

    On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles.
  • Blankets
    Author:
    Thompson, Craig
    Summary:

    Loosely based on the author's life, chronicles Craig's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter,...
  • Au revoir, crazy European chick
    Author:
    Schreiber, Joe
    Summary:

    Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of...
  • Arcadia
    Author:
    Groff, Lauren
    Summary:

    In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change...
  • All the things we leave behind
    Author:
    Nason, Riel
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction. A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned. It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their...
  • All the right stuff
    Author:
    Myers, Walter Dean
    Summary:

    The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old...
  • All our names
    Author:
    Mengestu, Dinaw
    Summary:

    A young man comes of age during an African revolution, drawn from the hushed halls of his university into the intensifying clamour of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, and...
  • Adultolescence
    Author:
    Hanna, Gabbie
    Summary:

    Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children's verses to a sophisticated confessional...
  • 96 words for love
    Author:
    Dash, Ava, Roy, Rachel
    Summary:

    When her beloved grandmother dies, Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer before college at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true...
  • 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line
    Author:
    Ripert, Eric
    Summary:

    Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York...
  • The firebug of Balrog County
    Author:
    Oppegaard, David
    Summary:

    A firebug has woken inside my heart Dark times have fallen on remote Balrog County, and Mack Druneswald, a high school senior with a love of arson, is doing his best to deal. While his family is haunted by his mother’s recent death,...

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