Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Part coming-of-age story, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Dark is a novel of contrast. Of colours and shades. Of infatuation and disappointment. Of love and hate. It is a nostalgic look back that is anything but comforting. “We are all like the bright moon,” writes Kahlil Gibran, “we still have our darker side.”

Set in the political turmoil of McCarthy's America, a young man searches for his father gone into hiding to escape the witch-hunts. Red Dreams is a coming-of-age adventure that leads from the straight-laced provinces of the American Midwest to the anarchy of 50's Hollywood. A compelling story - warm and humorous.

A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest. Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a...

Do you know who you are? Are you comfortable in your skin? Outed by her best friend in front of the whole neighborhood, Niya is trying to come to terms with being a lesbian. When she falls for her straight neighbor, Jamilla, there is no more denying who she really is. Niya will do whatever it takes...

A larger-than-life father with underworld ties. An obedient son. Law school may test the limits of his loyalty… Delton Lowe never wanted to step foot inside a courtroom, much less try a case. But none of that mattered after his kingpin father decided the family business needed a new attorney....

It's Memphis in the 1970's, it's sweltering outside, and eleven-year-old Angel is trying to maneuver her increasingly messy childhood. She's at the mercy of the adults in her world--a mother who's on the hunt for a rich new husband, a cruel nun named Sister Claudia and a stream of potential step-parents. There's...

Where do you go when there is nowhere to go? When you look around and you see that life has corrupted your youth and emotionally you are dying a slow meaningless death each day you wake up? In this African American coming of age story Benny, a 16-year-old dope boy has finally become sick of his crack-addicted...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RHYS ERNST AND STARRING NICHOLAS ALEXANDER, BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ, LEO SHENG, AND MARGARET QUALLEY “An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story.”—Aimee Mann When Adam Freedman — a straight, cis teen from Piedmont, California — goes...

This fall, the film festival circuit will be introduced to the indomitable Luli McMullen in Hick, the new film made from the acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, who also adapted the screenplay. The film-directed by Derick Martini-stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne and features Rory...

Because of her father's job at a major bank, Cecilia and her family have been moving many times. Now, a few months before her seventeenth birthday, she once again finds herself in a completely new environment, an apartment on the eleventh floor, overlooking the big city. On her first day in...

If you’ve read any of the short stories in the Tilly and Elmer series, you may have wondered how much more adventuresome Tilly and Elmer must have been as teenagers. Now it can be revealed! In the Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX series, our favorite sexagenarians describe, in sometimes hilarious and...

“The mythology of unicorns is cleverly interwoven with the modern elements. This, combined with a strikingly beautiful and simple style, leave the reader with the feeling of having experienced something magical. And the real magic lies in the mastery of Yolen's storytelling.”—SF Site Is...

**A moving coming-of-age novel based on the author’s adolescent experiences in China ** At sixteen, Denton Welch was attending school in Derbyshire, England. One morning, instead of taking the train to school, he caught a bus traveling in the opposite direction with no real plan except to...

"Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), follows the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little...