Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age [X], man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain [X], man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction [X], closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Life
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: families, war, social classes, family life, norfolk (england), great britain [X], historical fiction [X], heritage, coming of age [X], first loves, war stories, bildungsromans, family, historical fiction
The King's Arrow
In 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon struggles to find himself a place in divided England, and when he is offered the chance to accompany the king on a royal hunt, Simon hopes the journey will unlock doors for an exciting future, but when the hunt takes a fatal turn, Simon is forced to flee for his life.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: tirel, walter, william, coming of age [X], middle ages, bildungsromans, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]
The Telling Pool
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: arthur, king, magic, coming of age [X], adventure and adventurers, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]
Shelter Me
Fifteen-year-old Maggie leaves London during the 1941 German blitz to stay in Wales at a secluded boarding school, but when it turns out not to be as safe as it was supposed to be, she and three other girls flee and begin a harrowing journey back to London.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: coming of age [X], bildungsromans, survival, world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]