David Copperfield
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: recitations, young men, england, character studies fiction, london fiction, great britain fiction, children, orphans, child labor, boys, stepfathers, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, great britain, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, men, london (england), aunts, historical fiction, bildungsromane [X], autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, electronic books
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brillan perforamnce as the southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1095
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: fathers and daughters, trials (rape), lawyers, alabama, southern states, girls, father-daughter relationship, large print books, african americans, race relations, bildungsromans, film adaptations, racism, race discrimination, audiobooks, family life, lee, harper, legal stories, bildungsromans, legal stories, domestic fiction, bildungsromane [X], lawyers, father-child relationship, large type books, father and child
The House On Mango Street
A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 486
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: hispanic americans, girls, bildungsromans, chicago (ill.), latinos (u.s.), electronic books, bildungsromane [X], electronic books, bildungsromans, audiobooks, large type books
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: teenage girls, deaf, teenagers, southern states, suicide victims, friendship, racism, compact discs, audiobooks, love stories, allegories, girls, suicide, psychological fiction, bildungsromans, psychological fiction, bildungsromane [X], reading counts!
A Separate Peace
Based on John Knowles' novel, this involving a young man's first glimpse of adult emotions and motivations is compelling in both plot and perfomrance.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 345
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: preparatory school students, boys, friendship, death, school stories, new hampshire, private schools, closed captioning, dvds, closed caption video recordings, bildungsromans, audiobooks, schools, historical fiction, video recordings for the hearing impaired, ethnics - fiction, preparatory schools - fiction, friendship - fiction, audiobooks, historical fiction, bildungsromane [X]
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, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane [X], audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Annie John
A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1220
subjects: mothers and daughters, teenage girls, mother-daughter relationship, antigua, teenagers, bildungsromans, girls, domestic fiction, bildungsromane [X]
A Part Of The Sky
Thirteen-year-old Rob Peck is left to take charge of his mother, aunt, and few animals on a hardscrabble five-acre Vermont farm.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: teenage boys, farm life, families, teenagers, christian, shakers, family, shakers, christian fiction, domestic fiction, bildungsromane [X]
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay
Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1170
subjects: comic books, strips, etc, heroes in mass media, czech americans, young men, artists, new york (n.y.), heroes and heroines, mass media, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromane [X], cartoons and comics, humorous stories, drawing, painting, historical fiction, art
The Song Of The Lark
Story of Thea Kronborg, who rose from humble origins to the top of the opera world through her own hard work and the support of others.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: frontier and pioneer life fiction, women singers, young women, opera, singers, colorado, bildungsromane [X]
The Reivers
One day in 1905, eleven-year-old Lucius is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck to "borrow" his grandfather's automobile.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: humorous fiction, bildungsromans, southern states, adventure stories, adventure fiction, adventure and adventurers, bildungsromane [X], humorous stories
The Moviegoer
Binx Bolling is a moviegoer who lives for the bright, fleeting moments of celluloid fantasy he experiences at the movies.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: motion picture audiences, motion pictures, young men, stockbrokers, new orleans (la.), psychological fiction, bildungsromane [X]
Betsey Brown
The portrait of an extended African-American family in which the thirteen-year-old daughter strives to be grown-up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside of the family.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: busing for school integration, african american teenage girls, african american families, busing (school integration), saint louis (mo.), african americans, school integration, bildungsromans, bildungsromane [X], historical fiction, electronic books
Her Daughter's Eyes
Seventeen-year-old Kate, feeling alone in the wake of her mother's death and her father's preoccupation with his new girlfriend, prepares, with the help of her younger sister, to give birth to her baby in secret.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, motherless families, single parent families, teenage pregnancy, teenage girls, single-parent families, teenagers, girls, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, bildungsromane [X], domestic fiction
The Bean Trees
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: young women, indian children, automobile travel, friendship, orphans, large type books, native american children, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, humorous stories, bildungsromane [X]