bildungsromans

"Tsugu Miikura, a high schooler who loves to play guitar, had to move away from the rural town where she had spent her childhood due to family circumstances. After several years, she's back in her old hometown. She reunites with her childhood friends--Sora, Yuushin, and Asari--the friends she had buried a time capsule with back in elementary school. Tsugu is overjoyed to be with her friends once more, but the bonds that she thought would never change have in fact started to grow major cracks"--Back cover.

"Relief is short-lived for Yatora after his first competition, where his piece ranks higher than expected but is far from his dream school's standards. He's prepared to give Ooba-sensei's challenges everything he's got…but what if all he's got is still not enough? With 100 days until university exams, Yatora must toil to produce a piece only he can"--Back cover.

"Art has changed the course of Yatora's once dull life, and now he's aiming for Japan's most competitive art school. With entrance exams a year away, he'll need to expand his limited eye for art, and quickly. He turns to new peers and the masters to envision pieces only he can produce, and soon dives into his first competition--the same one where his Art Club role model nearly scored last place. Among geniuses andlifelong art kids, does Yatora even stand a chance . . . ?"--Back cover.

"Yatora now has new materials in his tool box and a wider range of expression under his belt. But a week before the first exam, Ooba-sensei says he's missing a crucial edge. With so much at stake, Yatora's self-doubt brings him lower than ever before. Still, he has his fire, his resilience--and he might just get a lucky break, too"--Back cover.

"A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie, who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash"--.

After they meet, Rufus and Syd depend on each other to survive small-town life in the Bible Belt since neither one of them fits the expectations of their small town.

Teagan Sullivan may come from a family of Olympic equestrians, but after becoming a golden disappointment herself, she goes to pony Thoroughbreds at a no-name racetrack. There, she struggles with her feelings for the blacksmith Screaming Wolf, and also finds herself rooming with a would-be jockey named Anne Simmons. Anne, a scrawny eighteen-year-old, dreams of racing in a Derby, but those dreams seem sidelined for good when she suffers a near-fatal accident. Both Anne and Teagan see a chance for redemption at the upcoming Breeder's Cup Classic.

Eigthteen-year-old Debbie White has lived a sheltered life on her family's rural dairy farm with her mentally unstable mother and alcoholic uncle. But everything changes when Debbie is accepted into Trinity College Dublin and begins commuting to classes a few days a week. As Debbie's worldview starts to expand, she starts to pull away from her life at home. But when a terrible accident strikes the farm, her life is upended in ways she never would have expected.

"A young Princess Leia spends her days learning the ways of politics, aiding those in need, and preparing for the ceremony in which she will declare her intention to one day rule Alderaan. But Leia works to prove herself worthy of the throne, she notices her parents are growing increasingly distant from her. Upon learning their secrets, Leia must now make a choice between her responsibility, to the people of Alderaan and her responsibility to save a galaxy crushed by the rule of the Empire..."--Back cover.

"An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them. For some reason, Taichi Ichinose just can't tolerate Futaba Kuze. But at the start of his third year in high school, he finds himself in the same homeroom as her, along with his childhood friend and school sports star Toma Mita. But one day Futaba opens up to Taichi, admitting she has a crush on Toma and asking for his help in confessing to him! There's just one problem--Toma seems to already have a secret crush on someone else"--Provided by publisher.