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Coming of Age: Stories of Personal Growth
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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian (Sep 2007)
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
search Novelist® PlusLooking for Alibrandi (Apr 1999)
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
search Novelist® PlusTouching Spirit Bear (Jan 2001)
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
search Novelist® PlusPeak (May 2007)
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
search Novelist® PlusBlankets: an illustrated novel (Jul 2003)
A touching memoir chronicles the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers, and the emotional conflict engendered by the author's fundamentalist upbringing.
search Novelist® PlusIf I have a wicked stepmother, where's my prince? (Sep 2005)
After her father remarries, high school sophomore Lucy Norton is forced to move to Long Island, where her evil new stepmother and annoying stepsisters make her life miserable.
search Novelist® PlusVariable star (Sep 2006)
Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
search Novelist® PlusI had seen castles (Sep 1993)
Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of himself as an eighteen-year-old, enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever.
search Novelist® PlusThe woman in the wall (Mar 1997)
An extremely shy girl retreats into the walls of her family's house.
search Novelist® PlusShift (May 2008)
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
search Novelist® PlusRed scarf girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution (Oct 1997)
Provides the story of Ji-li Jiang a twelve-year-old girl growing up in China in 1966, the year that Chairman Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and the changes it brought to her and her family.
search Novelist® PlusFreaky green eyes (Sep 2003)
Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
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