Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

If only her life were a story on paper, she could tear it into a million pieces and start over. Ten-year-old Francie McLean wants to be like her best friend, Randi—pretty, popular, and kindhearted—everything she isn’t. Francie struggles to be someone she is not and somehow control her...

It's the summer of '88 and Australia is buoyed with optimism fuelled by the Bicentennial celebrations. But for teenager Jack McIvor, forces of nature have plunged his life into turmoil. Yet between waves of discontent, a crashing cover drive and the alluring prospect of one Katrina Jensen provide...

A Brazilian master novelist in English at last For André, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of “the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table, and our family.” He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father, who preaches from the head of the table as if from a...

Book 2 in the Lessons in Love New Adult / Coming of Age Romance series. Alex Heron has graduated high school and been accepted to Princeton! But will college be the fulfillment of a dream like she always hoped it would be? Leaving her first love behind, Alex travels far away from her...

The Lessons in Love Series is a three part new adult romance, coming of age story by Clarissa Carlyle. All 3 parts are now collected into this one bundle. Lessons in Love has a feel-good and compelling plot that could easily be made into a movie. It's most highly recommended. --Readers' Favorite This...

In Dust, as 1944 WWII’s autumn becomes winter, we experience Christmas in South Carolina through the eyes of twelve year-old Lily. Because she can’t always understand the meaning of what she sees and hears, we learn that beyond Lily’s senses there are secrets and adult human drama she is not privy...

A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub, the Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective of...

Before you get too excited, despite its title, “Waking Up Naked on My Mother’s Grave” isn’t a horror book. It doesn’t explore an alternative world of ghosts, vampires, zombies, or the ultimate consequences of radical biblical prophesy. Nor does this book tell a dark tale of a private investigator,...

It is 1969 as fifteen-year-old Derek Moore pedals to his new high school for the first day of summer conditioning. He has no idea what is in store for him. After all, he is the fresh meat rookie on the football team. But when he is befriended by popular upperclassman, Mark Maris, a tiny sliver of...

While his parents shop for reconciliation in European furniture stores, 13-year-old Fish Becker is sent to spend the summer with Miles and Ariana Lambert. Ariana can't sleep for fear of who she'll be when she awakens, and Miles is touched, perhaps to a fault, by the romanticism we know first in our lives....

All Eli Troyer has ever wanted was to escape the tedium and boredom of life among his Amish family and friends. What he could not have imagined is what the city holds for some newcomers. Can you reinvent yourself? Sure. But you can also be reinvented by someone else—or something else. In the second...

In war, men don't only fight the enemy... Sergeant Knox leads the Head Knockers, scout-saboteurs in the war against the Dread Duke and his armies. They are the favorite squad of Captain Brighton's Stormwalkers, a proud company of citizen soldiers defending their homeland. Until Brighton falls...

“Part tangled love story and part love affair with comics . . . centers on that tenuous bit of time between childhood and adulthood, when anything seems possible.” —Library Journal Sheila Gower will do anything to get away from small-town nowhere Iowa and her dead-end swing-shift job...

The ten slice of life stories in this short story collection are about a young boy growing up and coming of age during the decade of the Sixties. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and some may just make you think. The Ricky Huening Stories are semi-autobiographical stories all based on some...