Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Set in Michigan's beautiful and remote Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior and the nearby town of Sault Ste. Marie, and written in fresh, vivid prose, Love Buries a Spring Bird is a coming-of-age story featuring characters that emote on a level seldom achieved in modern literature.

Nothing stays the same forever... A coming-of-age story that deals with the trials and tribulations of being in the late teens, Vocations describes the lives of three friends, Jeannie, Lila, and Pamela, and the events which draw them closer and pull them apart. Whether dealing with boys, friendships,...

The Kid is an experimental coming of age novel that lifts vernacular from the American Midwest and plants it firmly in modern day London and Bristol, and follows the story of a fifteen year old runaway, searching for a better life away from an abusive, alcoholic father.He heads west, jumping trains from...

After losing her mother to cancer Iris is forced to go live with her Father who is living with the step-sister (Lorelei) she never wanted or liked. Joining a new school and having to adapt to a new surrounding, new city and most of all a new family does not make things any easier but Iris knows she...

Bad/Tender is a subversion of the common trope that romanticises unhealthy relationships, the anti Fifty Shades of Grey. A coming-of-age literary novel for millennials following a young woman's journey through an abusive relationship, it touches upon the issues of consent, rape, mental illness, immigration,...

A coming-of-age story of a young white girl who fights racism and betrayal as she tries to unravel the truth about her parents’ deaths and escape the town that lied to her. Ivy, a young girl growing up in a small town in the 60s where everyone knows everything, discovers her family and the...

Told in the first person voice of a young woman coming of age as her country falls into war and hatred, the deceptively simple narrative takes the reader on a journey across landscape, political boundaries, assumptions and emotions.

Pirates – Romance - Adventure As punishment for deceiving them, Anne McKinnon is taken prisoner by the pirates. “I will let you buy her back,” the pirate John Rackham offers to her father. A ransom deal is struck and her father has six months to travel to England, collect the money, and...

Eddie Zittner's life is going nowhere. He’s obsessed with the rock group Steely Dan. He's an aspiring writer who has stopped writing. He’s bouncing from one dead-end job to another. His marriage is on the rocks. In this coming-of-age story, Zittner roams the streets of Manhattan, looking for answers, looking for inspiration, looking for ... The Dan.

A darkly enchanting tale set in Seattle in the 1990s – the fictional life of Kurt Cobain’s childhood imaginary friend… As a little boy, Kurt would insist that his mother set a place at the table for ‘Boddah’, his imaginary friend. Two decades later and the rock star Kurt Cobain is found...

What happens when a fifteen-year old girl awakens one morning to find an abandoned baby in her bureau drawer, then becomes his surrogate mother? For Gail Kenealy, whose family is rapidly deteriorating from domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, this discovery marks her abrupt passage into adulthood...

Kongwa, in central Tanganyika (now Tanzania) had been the central location for the post-World War II British government's, 30-million-acre Groundnut Scheme. With its failure, a village of tin roofed and white ant infested abandoned shacks, devoid of water-born sanitation, became available - suited,...

This is the story of a small family in Lobengula township, Bulawayo: a shoemaker, Ngwenya, his wife, MaVundla, and their two children, Ambition and Senzeni, whose lives are turned upside-down when Senzeni joins the local youth militia. Mlalazi captures the texture of everyday life in the township, the...

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce...