Top 100 Coming of Age Books

📘 The Summer I Turned Pretty

This book is fresh fun and exciting. 15 year Belly Conklin is enjoying another summer with the people that she loves in Cousins, a place she's been going to since she was a baby! The fishers, Aka Jerimiah and Conrad, are finally grown up, and Belly feels like she can fit in aswell.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Where the Crawdads Sing

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Looking for Alaska

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet).

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Normal People

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 It's Not Summer Without You

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is a 1970 novel by Judy Blume, typically categorized as a young adult book. It follows a sixth-grade girl who has grown up without a religious affiliation, due to her parents' interfaith marriage.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Goldfinch

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Push

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 The Bluest Eye

Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Five Feet Apart

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Turtles All the Way Down

**SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AZA NEVER INTENDED** to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at sake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Purple Hibiscus

A book about a flower thing

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Ocean at the End of the Lane

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 I'll Give You the Sun

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Anne of Avonlea

Anne Shirley: A Teacher's Inspiration in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Almond

Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and content life.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Paper Princess

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)

Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Walk Two Moons

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Middlesex

A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the main focus of this brilliantly written story is the confusion we all face as we grow into the person we were meant to be. The reader finds himself identifying with the main character's experiences. This is a brilliantly written story.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Dandelion Wine

A magical summer of childhood adventures and philosophical pondering.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Dork Diaries OMG Dork Diaries eBook

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Laskar Pelangi

“Laskar Pelangi adalah ramuan pengalaman dan imajinasi yang menarik, yang menjawab inti pertanyaan kita tentang hubungan-hubungan antara gagasan sederhana, kendala, dan kualitas pendidikan.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 The Poet X

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Firefly Lane

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Always and Forever, Lara Jean

While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 地球星人

一名来自日本的小女孩，在她熟悉的小镇生活突然遇到了神秘的外星人，她必须面对来自父母和学校的种种压力，以保持自己的真实。

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 The Power

ix, 340 pages : 20 cm

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 I Was Born for This

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 I Capture the Castle

Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Ghost

"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Almond

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change...

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Lucy. Roman

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 A Year Down Yonder

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with feisty Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Then Again, Maybe I Won't

Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Blubber

Blubber is a children's novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. The narrator of the story is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates in ostracizing and bullying Linda, an awkward and overweight girl. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed "Blubber" by her peers.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Gossip Girl

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The last song

#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Sold

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 This One Summer

An unforgettable summer. Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Sophie's Choice

The gripping, unforgettable story of Stingo, a 22-year-old writer; Sophie, a Polish-Catholic beauty who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz; and Nathan, her mercurial lover. The three friends share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Henry "Monty" Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven't been able to curb any of his roguish passions--not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Clap When You Land

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Where She Went

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 The Red Pony

Tells story of a young boy and his life on his father's ranch. Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Tiger Eyes

Davey's father has been murdered - and the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Her heartbroken mum plucks them up and takes them to stay with her prim and proper aunt in Los Alamos.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Tex

Two teenage brothers navigate the challenges of growing up with their parents gone.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Sing, Unburied, Sing

**A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Gimme a Kiss

A young woman discovers a diary and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and murder in Jane Retton’s latest psychological thriller for teenagers.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Tell the wolves I'm home

A coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old girl grappling with the loss of her uncle and searching for the truth about her family's past.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 The pigman

Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a lonely old man with a terrible secret.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 The Little Friend (The Little Friend)

A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 The boy in the black suit

Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 God Help the Child

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 P.S I like you

While daydreaming in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk. Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging letters. As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery, she discovers that she may be falling for her mystery writer...

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior

Minecraft meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid in book 3 of the very popular 8-Bit Warrior series of the journal of a young Minecraft villager who dares to dream of becoming a Minecraft warrior! THESE ARE THE REAL BOOKS BY CUBE KID! DIARY OF AN 8-BIT WARRIOR: CRAFTING ALLIANCES WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS WIMPY VILLAGER KINDLES 9 & 10.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Summer sisters

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Evelina

First published in 1778, this novel of manners tells the story of Evelina, a young woman raised in rural obscurity who is thrust into London’s fashionable society at the age of eighteen.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 The girl who fell from the sky

Multiracial fiction

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Geek girl

When she is accidentally discovered by a modeling agent, fifteen-year-old Harriet jumps at the chance to transform herself from a geek to a fashion model.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 With the Fire on High

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Jo's Boys

This sequel to Alcott's "Little Women" and "Little Men" chronicles the return of the classmates of Plumfield, Jo's school for boys. Readers reencounter Nat, the orphaned street musician, now a conservatory student; restless Dan, back from the gold mines of California; business-minded Tom; and other old friends.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Girl online

"Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby's struggle to support his mother and sister.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Sad girls

Schoolgirl Audrey starts suffering from panic attacks after a lie she told left one of her classmates dead, but she finds hope in the form of Rad, a boy who could turn her life around, but their romance may be ill-timed and push her closer to the edge.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Indian horse

Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Ellen Hopkins

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Lives of Girls and Women

The book is a collection of several short stories, describing the struggles of growing up, which Del, the protagonist is confronted with. The book is a description of the initiation she is undergoing through out the process of turning from a girl to a woman.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Kiss

A wonderfully insightful and entertaining novel for older readers from the phenomenal bestselling author.Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Every soul a star

And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 The Art of Being Normal

Two boys. Two secrets. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth – David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal – to be invisible.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Marcy Lewis, a high‑school sophomore, struggles with low self‑esteem and a distant family while feeling stuck in an unsatisfying school routine. A dynamic English teacher sparks change, leading Marcy to champion her new ally—and herself—despite personal costs.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 When Jeff comes home

Sixteen-year-old Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Fifteen

It seems too good to be true. The most popular boy in school has asked Jane out -- and she's never even dated before. Stan is tall and good-looking, friendly and hard-working -- everything Jane ever dreamed of.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Coming of Age Romance

📘 Dear Edward

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Just as long as we're together

Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 The Age of Miracles

The coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Pukat

"Jangan pernah membenci Mamak kau, jangan sekali-kali. Karena jika kau tahu sedikit saja apa yang telah ia lakukan demi kau, Amelia, Burlian dan Ayuk Eli, maka yang kau tahu itu sejatinya bahkan belum sepersepuluh dari pengorbanan, rasa cinta serta rasa sayangnya kepada kalian...

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 I never promised you a rose garden

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 The Last Picture Show

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 We the Animals

Trois garçons tentent de grandir au milieu du chaos, entre crises conjugales et manque d'argent. De père portoricain et de mère blanche, ils sont soumis aux colères comme aux moments de tendresse de leurs parents.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 The Universe Versus Alex Woods

The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013) is the debut novel by Gavin Extence. The book won the Waterstones Eleven award, and was nominated for the National Book Awards.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Traffick

Five teens are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The Buddha of Suburbia

Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Dear Mr. Kilmer

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Intet

Boy, Plum Tree, Meaning of Life, Sacrifices, 7th Graders, Disturbing

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Hope Was Here (2001 Newbery Honor Book)

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Juliet takes a breath

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that's going to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Here's to you, Rachel Robinson

Expelled from boarding school, Charles' presence at home proves disruptive, especially for sister Rachel, a gifted seventh grader juggling friendships and school activities.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Bringing Tony home

"Part memoir and part fiction, this collection of stories provides a historically compelling portrait of a young boy's childhood and coming of age in Sri Lanka in the 1940's and 1950's"--Provided by publisher.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Rusty runs away

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 You Know You Love Me

In You Know You Love Me, the sequel to Gossip Girl, it's brunette vixen Blair Waldorf's seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants--Nate, her studly troubles boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Teen Coming of Age

📘 Hope Was Here

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 Twisted

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn't believe.

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age

📘 The School at the Chalet

This edition contains both "The School at the Chalet" and "Jo of the Chalet School".

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Childhood Coming of Age

📘 Sunrise over Fallujah

It is a cool cat

Genre: Coming of Age Subgenre: Young Adult Coming of Age