bildungsromans

Tracy is sixteen and obsessed with collecting designer clothes, jewelry, and boys while her best friend Raheema struggles to follow a different path by focusing on grades and achievement, which challenges Tracy to reexamine her life and goals.

Ellen, a ten-year-old multiracial girl, begins to make the connection between her family's history and her future when she moves with her parents from the United States to Japan and becomes acquainted with her grandmother.

Follows the young narrator's childhood in Northern Ireland during the 1950s as he learns about the pain and ambiguity that come with maturity and as he becomes aware of the corruption of power in his own family and society.

Presents a collection of stories that serve as memoir of the author's experience in school as a child on the island of Martinique.

Marjorie Morgenstern gets the chance of a lifetime when she is offered a job working summer stock, and when she leaves her family to take it, she finds herself involved in an affair that could ruin her life.

Nick Twisp uses his journal to vent his frustrations over his parent's divorce, his school problems, his girlfriend troubles, and other annoying aspects of life.

Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell, engaged to her high school sweetheart, is ready to make a break from a life that has become suffocating in its sameness, but her decision is complicated when her fiancee is paralyzed in a diving accident and everyone expects her to stay and care for him.

Gretel Samuelson grows up in a suburban neighborhood with her best friend Jill, struggling to deal with the everyday disappointments and tragedies that occur on the way to adulthood.

Alice and her older sister Riley have been coming to their parent's vacation home on Fire Island all their lives, but things change the summer Alice turns twenty-one and their island neighbor and friend Paul, who has been away several years, returns to sell his family's house and finally act on his attraction to Alice.

Western story about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.