Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother. For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn’s visceral prose...

Ten years ago, two girls’ lives changed forever. Now one of them is ready to tell their story. *** 'A quirky lovable mystery and a brilliant, heartbreaking debut' Stylist 'A new face of fiction [and] an original coming of age novel' Observer *** The first memory I have...

“A witty and compassionate coming-of-age tale . . . a noble lesson in growing up.”—The Hartford Courant The story of the adventures of Danny Levine, Mousey Stern, and Newt Biddle growing up together in Southern California back in 1962, Kiddo is a novel of the California ’60s that you...

A poignant story of a young Navajo boy's spiritual odyssey and coming of age as a medicine man provides a vivid portrait of the beliefs, traditions, and lifestyle of the Navajo people. Winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal.

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow...

Retired Air Force officer Sam Golden reflects on the time he spent in the Azores in the 1950s. As a young officer, the experiences, relationships and choices he made at that time changed his life and had a significant effect on his future. The risks he took, the close calls he had, the places he saw,...

Young Flemingway is a fictional, coming-of-age story of a teenager on the island of Puerto Rico. Set in mid-1966, the book takes the reader on a frolicking adventure through booze, barrels, bongs and boobs. Although the initial jaunt ends mid-1970, the actions and emotions of the main character are...

She'd fall hard and fast for him if she'd let it. But the pain of her mom's betrayal and what still lay unsaid with her dad stopped her, and instead, she teetered on the edge, her mind warring with the daydream he'd spun around her. Hannah Giselle hopes two weeks with her dad in the northern...

It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager. But outside her own family, no one knows the depth of her mental illness. For her daughter, Mercy, Sylvia’s illness is at once a source of agony and fascination. Mercy’s...

Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams. During his senior year of high school, he begins to date longtime crush and non-Jewish girl Amy Andrews—a forbidden...

Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil. Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends...

Is Beth Portman the next Lisbeth Salander, Katniss Everdeen, or Vanessa Michael Munroe? A girl and a man sail the South Pacific guided by Death to an act of revenge that will set them free. Beth Portman's parents died in a home fire four years ago, while Beth, then a normal, happy 14...

You're just a face in the crowd... Until you're not. A Million Miles is an intense coming of age story set in 1999 that follows 19-year-old Maddy Traeger as she drops out of college to go on tour with her favorite band, Crimson + Clover. This is not a story of arenas with flashing lights and...