bildungsromans

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bildungsromans

Jack

secret histories
2010
Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.

The Spook's tale and other horrors

2009
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.

Dawn land

a novel
1993
Young Hunter, one of the People of the Dawn Land who inhabit the Earth in the time after the last glaciation, is chosen by the elders to face a mysterious threat that may disrupt their harmonious lives.

Blankets

a graphic novel
2011
An autobiographical graphic novel based on the author's experiences growing up in a religious family in rural Wisconsin, describing his rivalry with his brother, and his experiences with first love.

The bluest eye

2000
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.

Sophie's choice

1992
Three friends, Stingo, a twenty-two-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.

Feeling sorry for Celia

2001
An epistolary novel about a teenager named Elizabeth, made up of notes and letters from her best friend, a runaway named Celia; Christina, the new pen pal Elizabeth reluctantly takes on for a school assignment; her busy mother; and Elizabeth's own angst-ridden mind.

Girl

2007
Andrea Marr is a typical Portland teenager who goes to the malls until she joins a rock band and becomes involved in the underground rock scene, but she soon learns she has to choose between conformity or rebellion.

Small avalanches and other stories

2003
A collection of twelve short stories for young people including "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," "Life After High School," and "How I Contemplated the World.".

Jim the boy

a novel
2000
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.

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