Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Juliette Brewer can't face the truth. Ash Gordon can't bear another lie. A passion for surfing brings them together, but will the sea, with all its sorrows, tear them apart? "There's something about me you need to know—something I'm not sure I can tell you." Juliette Brewer has always...

Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely: her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of Maya and her baby sister, Maya is ready to hate her. Aunty M smiles a lot,...

"Reads like a combination of American Graffiti and Hoosiers put on pages with humor and wit. It's a wonderful story.... I loved it."—Associated Press It's not about golf. It's about life. Set in a small Oklahoma town in the mid-1960s—a simple place in a confusing time—Flatbellies...

It's October of 1970 and twelve-year-old altar boy Conner O'Neil has a few problems. He's dodging some oddly personal questions from his local parish priest while also suppressing the guilt he feels from the night he and his buddies shot out the window of a local haunted house. Worst of all, he learns...

With death lingering in the life of a young college student diagnosed with cancer, a struggle for both sanity and love ensues. Though his fate inescapable, this young man begins a daunting search for beauty in his death as he ever-presently seeks out his final sunset in life.As perversity,...

Jason, a college student with dreams of becoming an oceanographer, is on the run until he can prove his innocence. Framed for thievery by his uncle, he has been in the cold for hours when he finally stumbles upon a boarded-up summer cottage. After he cracks the padlock on the door, Jason scrapes together...

A dark coming-of-age story set in post-apocalyptic America.Life in economically and socially collapsed America has taught 14-year-old Sunni Brown more than a few tough lessons 1) Life sucks,2) People suck too, and 3) You can't trust your own flesh and blood relatives even if your ability...

Growth and Change Are Highly Overrated is a twist on the classic coming-of-age story that takes a unique and comic look at what we all fear— having to grow up and abandon our dreams. For a charismatic man like Lucas James, life is a breeze because everyone else provides the wind. This adolescent...

Three best friends ... an implacable rival ... an accusation of rape and racism rock a small Southern town .... They've been best friends since grade school. Growing up in moss-draped Verona, Georgia, life is idyllic for Shelby, Randy, and John Mark. They've petted and spoiled Shelby's little...

"Sharp in both wit and sorrow, readers will keep changing their minds about Hannah's path until the very end." —Theanna Bischoff, author of Left, Swallow and Cleavage In this haunting debut novel, Carrie Mumford tells an achingly-relatable story of first love, the intricacies of...

Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite - 5 stars! "A fascinating and enthralling look at Great Britain in the 1970s as experienced through the eyes of Guy, a North Yorkshire teen, and Mouse, a Welsh girl. I had a marvelous time reading Unlikely Soldiers and am looking forward to the next book...

Coming of age in Victorian England. In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy’s mother founded hospitals in India and Natal, and when news of her death arrives in...

For Jamie Croydon, the Koorang River is a wild and wondrous sanctuary beyond his parents’ farm in the heat-drenched country town of Palimunda. Then one day at the start of summer, the river becomes the scene of a grisly find; something so left-field in Jamie's world that it jolts his outlook and...

A coming-of-age story and a comedic tour-de-force, meet Jamey Fuller, a cocky California kid who achieves his wildest ambition: admission to The Juilliard School in New York City, the country’s most prestigious acting school. Once there, he is sure, he will find fame and glory. He will dance on tables,...