Between Before & After
"In a dual narrative, Elaine struggles to protect herself and brother Stephen in 1918 New York City, and Molly, her daughter, does the same for her brother, Angus, in 1955 San Jose, California"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, brothers and sisters, single-parent families, dysfunctional families, secrets, single parents, family life [X], family problems, coming of age [X], san jose (calif.), new york (n.y.), historical fiction, bildungsromans
Color Me In
"Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: racially mixed people, prejudices, jews, african americans, dysfunctional families, coming of age [X], family problems, family life [X], harlem (new york, n.y.), new york (n.y.), bildungsromans
The Spaces Between Us
Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: best friends, friendship, high schools, dysfunctional families, coming of age [X], schools, family problems, school stories, family life [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, electronic books
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.
FIC
year:
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dating (social customs), christian life, high schools, schools, families, african americans, family life [X], school stories, virginia, coming of age [X], bildungsromans, bildungsromans, 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, grief, family life [X], coming of age [X], bildungsromans, 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.
FIC
year:
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
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, refugees, refugee camps, family life [X], syria, arab spring, 2010-, bildungsromans, arab spring, 2010, coming of age [X], aleppo (syria), bildungsromans, 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.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans, bildungsromans, families, korean americans, mystery fiction, police shootings, coming of age [X], family life [X], los angeles (calif.), bildungsromans, detective and mystery fiction
A Sky Painted Gold
In 1929 in a sleepy Cornish village, aspiring writer Lou Trevelyan, age seventeen, is introduced to the glamour and secrets of high society by summer neighbors Caitlin and Robert Cardew.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families, wealth, brothers and sisters, coming of age [X], family life [X], cornwall (england : county), great britain, bildungsromans, historical fiction
This Is How We Fly
Grounded for the whole summer before college, seventeen-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke decides to join a local Quidditch team in order to spend time with her best friends Melissa and Xiumiao--the only way her father and stepmother will let her out of the house.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bildungsromans, stepfamilies, family life [X], texas, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, families, coming of age [X]
Blood Like Magic
After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: bildungsromans, blacks, families, magic, science fiction, witches, coming of age [X], love, family life [X], bildungsromans, science fiction, black people, witch fiction, fantasy fiction
Aristotle And Dante Dive Into The Waters Of The World
"Aristotle and Dante . . . must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bildungsromans, gays, families, mexican americans, coming of age [X], love, family life [X], romance fiction, bildungsromans
The Great Unknowable End
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighboring commune in 1977.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: communal living, families, coming of age [X], supernatural, family life [X], kansas, bildungsromans, paranormal fiction
With You All The Way
"Ada's life is a mess. She just caught her boyfriend cheating on her after a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity, and she's had it up to here with her gorgeous older sister's unsolicited advice.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, dating (social customs), vacations, families, family life [X], coming of age [X], hawaii, bildungsromans
The Great Godden
"In an eccentric, turreted vacation house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things that shouldn't be seen, while brothers and sisters, parents and theatrical older cousins fill the hot days with wine and tennis and sailing and planning a wedding.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: