Great Expectations
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: orphans, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], great britain, dickens, charles, young men, bildungsromans, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels [X], england
Wandering Son
"Chiba-san won't make up with Takatsuki-San, and no one can get over his or her crush.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: middle school students, gender identity, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], bildungsromans, manga, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels [X], gender role, bildungsromans, graphic novels, high school students, amateur theater
Great Expectations
A manga adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: dickens, charles, orphans, man-woman relationships, benefactors, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], england, bildungsromans, graphic novels, young men, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, revenge, graphic novels [X], london (england), electronic books
Life On Earth
The lives of the teenagers at Blithedale High intensify, as Claudia begins to tutor Nigel, Darren contemplates a major decision, and Paula wants to be more public in her relationship with Johanna.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 180
subjects: dating (social customs), friendship, missing children, alien abduction, coming-of-age comics, graphic novels, graphic novels [X], high schools, school stories, bildungsromans, interpersonal relations, sex offenders, electronic books, electronic books, schools, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X]
7 Good Reasons Not To Grow Up
"To the students at exclusive Greycliff Academy, Kirby seems to have it all: charm, brains, and a lucky streak that won't quit.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adulthood, graphic novels [X], middle schools, schools, video blogs, private schools, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], coming of age fiction, graphic novels
Jo & Rus
"At first, Jo and Rus don't realize how much they have in common--she's a middle schooler who's constantly bullied and he's a high schooler in a rock band.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: victims of bullying, teenage musicians, friendship, cats, human-animal relationships, bildungsromans, bullies, musicians, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], graphic novels [X], coming-of-age comics, domestic comics
Isla To Island
Wordless graphic novel follows young Marisol whose Cuban parents send her to live in the United States after Fidel Castro takes power in 1961.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: immigrants, bildungsromans, cubans, stories without words, graphic novels [X], comic books, strips, etc, historical fiction, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], brooklyn (new york, n.y.), wordless comics, coming-of-age comics, historical comics, graphic novels
Miss Quinces
"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 370
subjects: girls, quincea?era (social custom), families, honduran americans, humorous stories, bildungsromans, family life, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], manners and customs, humorous graphic novels, honduras, humorous comics, coming-of-age comics, graphic novels, graphic novels [X], quincea?era
The Real Riley Mayes
"Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sexual minorities, self-realization, middle school students, friendship, graphic novels [X], middle schools, lgbtq+ people, schools, coming of age [X], cartoons and comics [X], coming-of-age comics, school comics, graphic novels