In this “coming-of-old-age” tale, Jack Peckham finds himself on a journey into his distant past, helped along the way by Joe Easterday, a young man with Down syndrome, and Ida Pevely, a middle-aged waitress with her own mountain of...
Coming of age
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Author:Brennan, KevinSummary: -
Author:Shoup, BarbaraSummary:Everything is falling apart for high school senior Jackson Watt. His best friend Brady disappears without a word. His mom remarries, which means a new stepdad, a new house... a new life. He falls in love with the girl of his dreams, and...
- Author:TODD, PenelopeSummary:
Eighteen-year-old city girl, Zillah, abandons her safe summer holiday plans and takes the train to the wild West Coast in response to a mysterious letter. Her destination is an empty shack on a dangerous tidal river where she meets the...
- Author:Ozkowski, JaneSummary:
Emily has finally finished high school in the small town where she has lived her whole life. At last, she thinks, her adult life can begin.But what if you have no idea what you want your new life to look like? What then?While Lincoln...
- Author:Prado, ClaribelSummary:
TRU is a story of a 41 year old Puerto Rican woman named Tru and her quest to liberate herself from the grandiose and delusional Chinese American husband, who had led their family to financial ruin. After 12 years of a destructive...
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Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner.
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Author:Clement-Davies, DavidSummary:Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the...
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Author:Han, JennySummary:Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
- Author:Shaw, K. B.Summary:
Is revealing the truth worth the disruption of a society? When young Fallon is torn from his sheltered life as a ward of the state, he’s drawn into a subversive group that needs his secret talents and he quickly becomes a chronicler of...
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Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie.
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Author:Wehm, M. DarushaSummary:The first time Brian Guillemot ever spoke to his mother, he was thirty years old, reading a European re-imagining of the X-Men and sitting on the john. An adopted only child, Brian "Gumbo" Guillemot's teenage hobby was searching for his...
- Author:Street, Emily JuneSummary:
After being kidnapped from her stark existence on the cold island of Gante, Leila must learn to survive in a southern culture her native people disparage. She has no choice but to follow the creed of her clan, flow like water, and adapt...
- Author:Doane, MichaelSummary:
The Debut Novel From Michael Doane Written in the same tradition as On the Road and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Michael Doane’s The Crossing explores what it means to exist in 21st century America. She’s out on a pier,...
- Author:Baril Guérard, Jen-Philippe, Wall, AimeeSummary:
Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament...
- Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
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Author:Lyon, George EllaSummary:In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper.
- Author:Tamaki, Jillian, Tamaki, MarikoSummary:
Skim is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth stuck in a private girls' school in Toronto. When a classmate's boyfriend kills himself because he was rumoured to be gay, the school goes into mourning overdrive, each...
- Author:Horsman, Paul E.Summary:
The night before his Coming-of-Age, Ghyll and his two friends escape their castle on a clandestine boar hunt that will forever change their lives. The hunt proves a disaster, and with one of them badly wounded, they return just in time...
- Author:Smith, CheritaSummary:
Snow White meets genetic engineering in this captivating novelette that blends science fiction and fairy tale— you'll be hooked from the very first line.Like most engineered kids, Amara can't wait to turn sixteen. Sixteen means...
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Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
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