The Wednesday Wars
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 142
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: shakespeare, william, coming of age [X], junior high schools, family, long island (n.y.), family life, schools, school stories, bildungsromans, families [X], bildungsromans [X]
Up A Road Slowly
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: orphans, family life, newbery medal, girls, teenagers, aunts, coming of age [X], family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls, families [X], korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans [X]
Hide And Seek
In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: kidnapping, family life, divorce, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, bildungsromans, arizona, survival, family, families [X], castaways, bildungsromans [X], coming of age [X]
Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 116
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380
subjects: families [X], mexican americans, friendship, homosexuality, coming of age [X], family, family life, bildungsromans, audiobooks, bildungsromans [X], children's audiobooks, large type books
Mira In The Present Tense
Mira Levenson uses her diary to try and make sense of friendship, puberty, death, and other aspects of life as she approaches her twelfth birthday.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: family life, bildungsromans, families [X], diaries, coming of age [X], diary fiction, bildungsromans [X]
Mujercitas
Mientras el padre de la familia esta combatiendo en la guerra, la senora March y sus cuatro hijas intentan salir adelante a pesar de las dificultades economicas.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: spanish language, march family (fictional characters), mother-daughter relationship, sisters, family life, new england, united states, coming of age [X], spanish language materials, march family (fictitious characters), families [X], domestic fiction, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans [X]
Pig Park
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: neighborhood, community life, bakeries, family life, building, hispanic americans, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino, juvenile fiction / social issues / general (see also headings under family), juvenile fiction / love & romance, fiction / coming of age, chicago (ill.), bildungsromans [X], neighborhoods, families [X], bakers and bakeries, coming of age [X], latinos (u.s.), bildungsromans, electronic books, electronic books
The Last To Let Go
"When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers and sisters, families [X], family violence, murder, abused women, sexual orientation, coming of age [X], family life, bildungsromans [X]
In The Key Of Nira Ghani
"A Guyanese girl must find the balance between her parents' 'old world' expectations and traditions while pursuing her dream of being a great trumpeter"--OCLC.
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year:
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family life, musicians, friendship, interpersonal relations, coming of age [X], families [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans [X]
Night Music
Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the prot?g? of her father, a renowned composer.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: musicians, dating (social customs), families [X], african americans, coming of age [X], family life, new york (n.y.), bildungsromans [X]
Not So Pure And Simple
"High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera"--Provided by publisher.
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year:
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dating (social customs), christian life, high schools, schools, families [X], african americans, family life, school stories, virginia, coming of age [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans [X], domestic fiction, electronic books
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: african american families, authorship, diaries, fathers, friendship, money-making projects for children, perseverance (ethics), african americans, moneymaking projects, perseverance, families [X], grief, family life, coming of age [X], bildungsromans [X], domestic fiction, domestic fiction
The Dream Weaver
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--Provided by publisher.
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year:
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, families [X], cuban americans, family life, coming of age [X], bildungsromans [X]
Yara's Spring
"Growing up in Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: teenage girls, families [X], refugees, refugee camps, family life, syria, arab spring, 2010-, bildungsromans, arab spring, 2010, coming of age [X], aleppo (syria), bildungsromans [X], realistic fiction
Your House Will Pay
"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s.
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year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans, bildungsromans, families [X], korean americans, mystery fiction, police shootings, coming of age [X], family life, los angeles (calif.), bildungsromans [X], detective and mystery fiction