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 [X], newbery medal, girls, teenagers, aunts, coming of age [X], family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls [X], families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
If I Have A Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
High school sophomore Lucy Norton's life is turned upside down when her father remarries and moves Lucy to Long Island, where she finds herself trapped in a Cinderella story with a wicked stepmother, two evil stepsisters, and a dashing prince who could make all Lucy's dreams come true.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: teenage girls [X], stepmothers, coming of age [X], family life [X], teenagers, long island (n.y.), girls
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 [X], families, refugees, refugee camps, family life [X], syria, arab spring, 2010-, bildungsromans, arab spring, 2010, coming of age [X], aleppo (syria), bildungsromans, realistic 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 [X], dating (social customs), vacations, families, family life [X], coming of age [X], hawaii, bildungsromans
Alma Presses Play
"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls [X], racially mixed people, families, friendship, family life [X], coming of age [X], new york (n.y), bildungsromans, novels in verse
What We Wish For
"Fifteen-year-old Layla Freeman likes to pretend her life is fine.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls [X], homelessness, families, drug addiction, coming of age [X], family life [X], realistic fiction, bildungsroman fiction, bildungsromans