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Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.

Seventeen-year-old Elio, anticipating a boring summer at his parents' home on the Italian coast, finds himself powerfully attracted to Oliver, a handsome young American who has come to assist Elio's father for the summer, and the two young men soon fall into a romantic and sexual relationship that influences the course of their lives.

Paul Dear spends his days communicating with magical creatures in London's Kensington Gardens, and his nights adventuring on the other side of the mirror, but after a great tragedy strikes, Paul risks everything and begins on a quest that will take him very far from his mother, father, and baby sister.

A graphic novel in which four troubled boys, who belong to a garage band, blow an amp while cutting their demo tape and get themselves in more trouble than they can handle when they try to replace it.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Presents Charles Dickens's 1850 novel that chronicles an English orphan boy's lessons in love, betrayal, loyalty, and forgiveness from birth to fatherhood; and includes explanatory notes, commentary from such figures as Virginia Woolf and George Orwell, and discussion questions.

Eva Khatchadourian has been living a life plagued by guilt and denial since her son opened fire and killed seven of his classmates two years earlier, and as she tries to come to terms with her son's actions, she examines the parenting choices she made when raising him and wonders where she went wrong.

Presents the writings of twentieth-century American boys age twelve through eighteen, including essays, poems, diary entries, and stories on topics such as friendship, family struggles, first love, violence, homosexuality, and other concerns.

A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.

Thirteen-year-old Ilse learns to rely on herself for survival after her mother Lore, terrified the Nazis will discover the girl is half-Jewish, sends her to live with a relative in Morocco in 1939, while in Germany, one of the privileged children Lore cares for in her job as a nursemaid, confesses his growing discomfort with his role in the Hitler Youth.