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 [X], aunts, coming of age [X], family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls, families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
Rat
Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Chandler's love of basketball leads him to hang around the gym even though a birth defect keeps him from playing the game, but he is forced to decide what is really important in life when he sees the coach molest a cheerleader and testifies against him in court.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: basketball, interpersonal relations, family life [X], coming of age [X], new york (state), sports, teenagers [X], adolescence, rats as pets, rats
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, stepmothers, coming of age [X], family life [X], teenagers [X], long island (n.y.), girls
Before You Go
Jude's house is kept dark, and no one talks much. It's been that way since his little sister drowned in a swimming pool seven years ago when Jude was supposed to be watching her.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
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 [X], alcoholism, african americans, teenagers [X], missing persons, family problems, coming of age [X], bildungsromans