bildungsromans

Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives lands an internship at her favorite boutique. She then falls for her fellow intern, Jordi Perez, and finds herself competing against Jordi to win the paid job at the end of the internship. As Abby begins to feel more confident, her new best friend Jax helps her find the best burger in Los Angeles, to prove to Abby's mother, the health nut, that Abby is her own woman. But when her self-esteem reaches its peak, Jordi publishes photographs that cause Abby to feel betrayed, and reconcile her private sense of self-worth and the image others have of her.

Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.

Claude McKay Love, a young black man raised by his civil rights-era grandmother on the South Side of Chicago, does not want race to define his life forever. When riots break out in his neighborhood, Claude takes it as an opportunity to escape Chicago, go to college, and create his own identity. However, in twenty-first-century America, for a young black man, there may not be a safe place.

The lives of the teenagers at Blithedale High intensify, as Claudia begins to tutor Nigel, Darren contemplates a major decision, and Paula wants to be more public in her relationship with Johanna.

Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.

Middle schooler Ellen finds that everyone in her school considers her mean due to her blunt honesty.

Midwesterner Lee Fiora is sent by her father to a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts where she manages to survive in spite of the social differences between her and her classmates.

The adventures of a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer living along the Mississippi River in the early nineteenth century.

A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Mark Twain's classic story about the adventures of a young boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River during the mid-1800s.