Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Saudades. A beautiful Brazilian word. We don’t really have a perfect equivalent in English.  The word itself shows so much of the intensity of Brazilian culture  –  a culture where emotion is not stifled but free to be felt and expressed. Saudades. The best way to describe it is longing for,...

There's always something interesting and exciting happening when you're thirteen and summer vacation has just begun. In the summer of 1966 a young boy is having the summer of his life, riding his bike, playing baseball and having fun by tempting the wrath of the nasty old man that lives nearby. But...

“Bacharach has a great comic voice— shrewd, deadpan, and dirty—and The Bend of the World fears no weirdness.”—Sam Lipsyte “Mighty strange doings” mark the Pittsburgh of Jacob Bacharach’s audacious and hilarious debut novel, a town where “yeti, UFOs, rumors of orgiastic rites,...

-A very funny booksellers' book, perfect for gifts & recommendations - A darkly hilarious, sometimes surreal, coming of age story set in LA and Chicago -Inspired by author's real relationship with sister, very personal and relatable -Author is a former bookseller at City Lit in Chicago -Author...

John Haworth, despite innate shyness, has floated upward in a comfortable English home environment under the influence of much older sisters and their friends. After he begins a new school in the early fifties, the seven-year-old is looking lost when a classmate, Martin Holford, decides to take him...

His whole life has been a fantasy. Who is Tom Houghton? As a boy growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Tom Houghton escapes the harshness of the schoolyard by cocooning himself in the cinema of the golden age of Hollywood. When he discovers that his favourite actress, Katharine...

“Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” —Sandra Cisneros “An essential read for our times.” —Cristina Garcia Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises...

At the age of seven, Jason Benson first experiences the wonders of Atlantic City--carnival rides, fortune-tellers, fudge shops, arcades and Miss America. Amazed and smitten, he decides his real life will happen here, in this magical shore town. Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1960s and...

Mouse, who until lately, as grown up in a boy's world moves with her father and brother to the family compound. There she must look into a new mirror and see something that up until now she hasn't seen before--a bittersweet coming of age.

In his third novel, Richard Scarsbrook returns to the fictional Faireville of his previous novels Cheeseburger Subversive (2003) and Featherless Bipeds (2006) to present Philip Skyler in a three part chronicle: his eighth-grade introduction to public school, his twelfth-grade challenges, and his recovery...

Fourth book of the epic coming of age A Stupid Boy Story. David's got a busy summer planned, what with football camps, a 'guys' weekend' with his family, modeling, and getting ready for his sophomore year of high school. What he doesn't plan is conflict with his football coach and the new quarterback,...

On the cusp of adulthood, Meeka is about to confront a clash of lifestyles and cultures as she leaves her community in Canada’s Far North and begins her education in the South. Being a teenager in Nunavut comes with its own challenges, but as a daughter of an Inuk hunter, Meeka has enjoyed a certain...

A coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter:In a small town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills...

Hoe is het om op te groeien tussen honderden psychiatrische patiënten en lichamelijk gehandicapten omdat je vader de directeur is van een psychiatrische kliniek en je ouderlijk huis op hetzelfde terrein staat? Een komisch en tegelijkertijd treurig verhaal over een jongen die het best in slaap valt...