The Porcupine Of Truth
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: friendship, african american teenage girls, children of alcoholics, dysfunctional families, billings (mont.), family life, alcoholism, african americans [X], teenagers [X], missing persons, family problems, coming of age [X], bildungsromans
Black Enough
A collection of coming-of-age short stories that reflect on the African American teenage experience in America.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american teenagers, coming of age [X], african americans [X], teenagers [X], united states, bildungsromans, short stories
A Love Hate Thing
While troubled black teen Tyson Trice recovers from being shot, he is taken in by Nandy Smith and her well-to-do family in the Pacific Hills community.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenagers [X], interpersonal relations, rich, african americans [X], coming of age [X], love, romance fiction, bildungsromans, love stories, romance fiction, electronic books