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Jane Eyre

author: Bront?, Charlotte, Zeffirelli, Franco, Bronte
Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890

Missing The Piano

author: Rapp, Adam
When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Mis?rables, " Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Don't Think Twice

author: Pennebaker, Ruth
Seventeen years old and pregnant, Anne lives with other unwed mothers in a group home in rural Texas where she learns to be herself before giving her child up for adoption.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: pregnancy, unmarried mothers, adoption, coming of age [X]

My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle The Dove

author: Castillo, Ana
398.2
year: 2000
copies: 1
call number/section: 398.2
lexile:
subjects: aztecs, children, conduct of life, coming of age [X]

The Gospel According To Larry

author: Tashjian, Janet
Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

Blind Sighted

author: Moore, Peter
Kirk, a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540

Confessions Of A Not It Girl

author: Kantor, Melissa
High schooler Jan Miller, hoping for a senior year romance, just cannot seem to do anything right, especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca who has just been named a New York "It Girl, " but things start looking up when an old crush moves back to town.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

Running Loose

author: Crutcher, Chris
Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870

Heart's Delight

author: Nilsson, Per
As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Katrin, he replays scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not the great romance he believed it to be.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: love, coming of age [X], love stories, bildungsromans, sweden

Zahrah The Windseeker

author: Okorafor-mbachu, Nnedi
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

Full Service

author: Weaver, Will
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: coming of age [X], service stations, farm life, minnesota

Bang!

author: Flake, Sharon
Two years after the shooting death of thirteen-year-old Mann's little brother, Mann's father, who believes his son died because he made him too "soft," takes Mann and his friend camping and abandons them in an attempt to make them tough.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590

Christy

author: Marshall, Catherine, Marshall, Catherine Marshall
"The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930

Mercy On These Teenage Chimps

author: Soto, Gary
At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps--long armed, big eared, and gangly--and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: best friends, friendship, puberty, coming of age [X]

Small Avalanches And Other Stories

author: Oates, Joyce Carol
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.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: coming of age [X], short stories, bildungsromans

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