bildungsromane

Cherry Marshall, daughter of a deacon at the First Apostolic Holiness Church of God, gets her first taste of sinfulness in the summer of 1969 when she meets and falls in love with Tripp, a sexy stranger who wanders into her hometown of Sweet Valley, Arkansas.

Sixteen-year-old David Nachman's life is turned around when he accepts a challenge to drag race with one of his misfit friends and accidentally hits and kills a small child.

Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of an Indian-hating rancher, learns to make his own decisions and become his own man while attempting to recover a prize Arabian colt stolen from him by a local rustler known as Hawkeye.

Maria Violetta Rosario Dananay's happy life in the Philippines comes to an abrupt end when her father elopes with his pregnant mistress and her mother flees to New York.

In 1921, the son of an Irish immigrant sets out for Ireland to learn the truth about his family and his past.

Obsessed with the memory of Faith, her older sister who died in 1970, Phoebe O'Connor feels compelled to retrace Faith's final steps in Europe.

Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.

Billie Weinstein has always depended on her older sister Cassie for advice and support, but when Cassie gets sick, the tables are turned, complicating Billie's already difficult teenage life.

Near the end of World War II, Ian McKenzie is sent to a summer camp to tame his wild ways, and while he is there he works with his cabin of misfits to build a chimney for the camp, learning along the way how to solve problems.