Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

At age eleven, Ria Ofor was caught in a fire that left her facially-scarred. Devastated by the apparent rejection by her father, Ria, now twenty-seven, is a gifted sculptress but lives a semi reclusive life. Avoiding art galleries and their consequent publicity, she sells her artwork online, scraping...

A likeable, intelligent high school senior, Mateo Bernard is new to Little Rock. Cody Redan has lived there all his life. Yet, when they meet, there's a familiarity, a sense they've known each other before. By turns funny, romantic, insightful, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the...

“¡PISTOLEROS! is the story of twentieth century anarchism as witnessed by McHarg, a Glaswegian anarchist engineer who became embroiled in Spanish revolutionary politics at the end of the First World War. Curiously echoing the editor Christie’s own life fifty years later, the youthful and naïve...

Louisa May Alcott was an American writer best known for coming of age novels featuring young women.  Alcott also served as a nurse at a Union hospital during the Civil War and wrote about her experiences there.  This edition of Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag includes a table of contents.

Like all good Catholic boys I care what Jesus thinks. Jesus--both the man and the faith. Following him makes me happy. There's just one issue... I think I'm gay. Well, it's hard to be sure while going to an all-boys school. It could be a matter of simply liking what I know, and really, oh so very...

Gifted Middle School students Rebecca, who had just lost her mother, and Savanah, who's parents recently got divorced, become friends. A coming of age tale of the bonds and limitations of childhood friendships and growing.

Two farm boys growing up along the banks of the Ohio River is the setting for this riveting coming-of-age tale of an idyllic life with dark undertones.

Fans of Kasie West, Cookie O'Gorman and Monica Murphy will fall in love with this coming of age romance series that tackles love, friendship and moving on from painful pasts. Natalie Scott's life is simple with no strings attached. As a band photographer, she's made metal music her life, and...

Evening Burnwick lives in a land where young men and women are entombed underground to make the crops grow. She craves more than a peasant life, but she feels crushed beneath the foot of the landlords. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is poaching on the Church’s lands and runs into an...

Six short stories: Defender is about Jack Fowler,  an aging Vietnam veteran who is our planet’s last defense against an alien assault force; Dumping Ground is a quickie about kids growing up; Green Eyes is about true love and jealousy; Claudia’s Legs is about growing up but told from an older...

Susan Coolidge was a prolific American author best known for writing books for children.  Coolidge is best known today for the coming of age stories surrounding Katy Carr. This edition of In the High Valley includes a table of contents.

He's a boy trying to become a man. The mysteries seem solvable in the poignant coming of age story. then something unexpected appears in a very feminine shape. She calls herself Lila. She's barely a girl herself, but she comes in a package that the stuff of dreams. But after all, what are...

Book 3 in the Lessons in Love New Adult / Coming of Age Romance series Alex Heron has graduated from Princeton, and now it's time for her to make her mark in the big wide world. With an exciting job opportunity in New York City, everything seems to be going well, but with the two great loves...

In this gently humorous story, young, sensitive Brendan Harris learns much about life, family and the need to fit in while growing up during the 1940s in semi-rural Southern Ireland. Raised in a Protestant household and attending a private school in this predominantly Catholic country, Brendan stumbles...