initiation rites

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initiation rites

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"After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed - new apartment, new school, new family dynamic - and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself - even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do"--Provided by publisher.

Coming of age around the world

2016
Describes how people from different cultures and religions celebrate "coming of age," when a child grows into an adult.

Growing up

2001
Examines ceremonies which major world faiths hold to celebrate and acknowledge different stages in children's lives. Children relate firsthand how they celebrate Jewish bar mitzvah, Christian baptism and confirmation, and the Hindu sacred thread initiation ceremony.

From boys to men

spiritual rites of passage in an indulgent age
2006

Girls on the verge

debutante dips, gang drive-bys, and other initiations
1999
Examines why traditional initiation rituals are no longer suiting young women's needs, drawing from interviews with girls on the verge of womanhood who underwent rituals they hoped would give them new identities that would allow them to leave their childhoods behind.

Initiation customs

1993
Discusses the ceremonies of six major religions through which young people become adult members of these faiths.

Growing up

from child to adult
1998
Introduces the rites and rituals surrounding the passage from child to adult in the six major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Haze

2012
When trouble arises on Bram's swim team, he struggles to find out who hurt his friend and to protect his coach from blame.

Inner circle

a novel
2007
Reed Brennan returns to Easton Academy ready to put the murderous nightmare of her previous year behind her, but Cheyenne Martin, the new resident of Billings Hall, is determined to keep the traditional secret initiation at Billings alive.

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