young women

Eighteen-year-old Hiroko comes to California in 1941 to attend college at Berkley, but even her love for teaching assistant Peter Jenkins cannot keep her from longing for home. Sadly, her dream of returning to Japan ends with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and Hiroko must learn to survive in her rapidly changing world.

Fifth grader Natsumi Kawashima's wish to be grown up comes true after she accidentally eats some genetically enhanced nuts, but she soon comes to wonder whether the combination of a sexy woman's body and a fifth-grade mind is a good idea.

Seventeen-year-old Imogene scores an internship with Hautelaw and heads to Paris with her best friend Evie to spend the summer immersed in the fashion scene, but disaster looms when the high-fashion models go on strike just before Couture Week, and it is not until the girls discover a mysterious unnamed designer that things get back on course.

A young girl uses her journal to record her thoughts about life as a high school student.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

A young girl named Temple is on the run from zombies as she tries to find her younger brother who was taken away from her and hoping to be set free from the demons who enslave her.

Anna records her struggles with anorexia--which she personifies as Tyranny, her tormentor--in her journal, and describes her efforts to overcome her deadly enemy through strength of character.

Pell Ridley, having left home on the day she was to marry her childhood sweetheart with the intention of finding a more fulfilling life, meets a poacher with whom she travels through the countryside, but soon becomes overwhelmed by her emotional ties to her family, home, and lover.

Classic novella about a captivating young American, Daisy Miller, whose behavior causes conflicting feelings in the mind of would-be suitor, Winterbourne.