Coming-of-age+Booklists

Part-Time Indian || Alexie || male || Humourous, Native reserve, fitting in || 229 || Teen ||
 * === **Title** === || === **Author** === || === **Protagonist(s)** === || === **You'll like it if you like....** === || === **Pages** === || === **Section** === ||
 * Dandelion Wine || Bradbury || male || Classics - summer in a small town || 239 || Adult ||
 * Ellen Foster || Gibbons || female || Orphans - feisty, funny tragedy || 126 || Adult ||
 * April Raintree || Culleton || females || Metis culture, sisters, tragic || 185 || Adult/Can ||
 * The Boys on the Rock || Fox || male || LGBT - humorous coming-out stories || 146 || Teen ||
 * Fade || Cormier || male || SciFi - "invisible man" but a teen || 310 || Teen ||
 * Boy Meets Boy || Levithan || male || LGBT - humerous coming-out story || 185 || Teen ||
 * Mosh Pit || Dunnion || female || LGBT - Punk, outcast, coming-out || 269 || Teen ||
 * Skinny || Kaslik || female sisters || Anorexic, sisters, father issues || 244 || Teen ||
 * What Happened to Lani Garver || Plum-Ucci || female || Suspenseful ,outcast & friendship || 314 || Teen ||
 * Looking for Alaska || Green || male || Boarding school, self-destruction, love || 221 || Teen ||
 * The Perks of Being a Wallflower || Chbosky || male || Letters/diary,high school, misfit || 206 || Teen ||
 * Hatchet || Paulsen || male || survival, divorce, secrets || 195 || Teen ||
 * The Chocolate War || Cormier || male || suspenseful,school, conformity, bullies || 189 || Teen ||
 * The Outsiders || Hinton || males || Gangs, friendship, loyalty, belonging || 180 || Teen ||
 * Stargirl || Spinelli || male || Perils of popularity, acceptance, lcrushes || 186 || Teen ||
 * Milkweed || Spinelli || male || Roma boy, Nazi Germany, survival || 204 || Teen ||
 * War Horse || Morpurgo || male || WWI, odyssey adventure, loyalty || 182 || Teen ||
 * The Absolutely True Diary of a
 * Luna || Peters || male/female || LGBT, transgender, identity, acceptance || 248 || Teen ||
 * A Mango-Shaped Space || Mass || female || synesthesia, self-discovery,grief || 217 || Teen ||
 * Lovely Bones || Sebold || female || murder, death/afterlife, family, grief || 328 || Teen ||
 * To Kill a Mockingbird || Lee || female || courtroom drama || 376 || Adult ||
 * I Capture the Castle || Smith || female ||  || 410 || Adult ||
 * Extreme Loud & Incredibly Close || Foer || male ||  || 326 || Adult ||
 * The Red Tent || Diamant || female || Historical drama ||  || Adult ||
 * Special Topics in Calamity Physics ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ||  || female || precocious female; Irish poverty ||   ||   ||
 * The Alchemist || Coelho || male ||  ||   ||   ||
 * City of Thieves || Benioff || male || male bonding; WWII; adventure; quest; ||  ||   ||
 * The Bell Jar || Plath || female || female first job & depression ||  ||   ||
 * Oranges are not the only fruit || Winterson || female || LGBT repressive religious family ||  ||   ||
 * Girl with the Pearl Earrings || Chevalier || female || Historical drama; artist vs realist ||  ||   ||
 * How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents || Alvarez || female || immigrant experience ||  ||   ||
 * The Solitude of Prime Numbers || Giordano || male & female || boy meets girl; quirky/misfits ||  ||   ||
 * Paddy Clarke HaHaHa || Doyle || male || Irish poverty ||  ||   ||
 * Burger's Daughter || Gordimer || female || politics; apartheid in South Africa ||  ||   ||
 * The Virgin Suicides ||  || male || voyeuristic narration; reclusive eccentrics ||   ||   ||
 * Norwegian Wood || Murakami || male || effects of suicide on friendships ||  ||   ||
 * Snow Flower and the Secret Fan || See || female || 19th cent. China; life story ||  ||   ||
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night ||  || male || Autism spectrum & mystery ||   ||   ||
 * Empire of the Sun || Ballard || male || Historical drama; boy's survival ||  ||   ||
 * In Country || Mason || female || effects of Vietnam on family ||  ||   ||
 * Breath, Eyes, Memory || Dandicat || female || Haiti; immigrant experience in USA ||  ||   ||
 * The Secret Life of Bees || Monk Kidd || female || girl's search for her mother & beekeeping ||  || Adult ||
 * The Heart is a Lonely Hunter || McCullers || female || The South-segregation / poverty ||  || Adult ||
 * Never Let Me Go || Ishiguro || female || friendship triangle; dystopia ||  ||   ||
 * Push || Sapphire || female || Gritty drama, book to movie ||  ||   ||
 * Atonement || McEwan || female || Historical drama WWI; effects of deception ||  ||   ||
 * [|Elliot Allagash] || Rich || male || Private school, funny, geek to popular || 223 || Teen ||
 * [|Life as We Knew It] || Pfeffer || female || Survival after global disaster || 337 || SciFi/Teen ||
 * [|The Graveyard Book] || Gaiman || male || Raised in a graveyard, survival, loss || 293 || Fantasy ||
 * [|Rooftops of Tehran] || Seraji || male || Forbidden love, Persian culture, friendship || 345 || Teen ||
 * [|Different Seasons] (Short Story: **//The Body//**) || King || males || friendship, summer adventure || 140 || Teen/SS ||
 * [|Boy’s Life] || McCammon || male || Monsters; King novels; boys'childhoods ||  || Adult ||
 * [|Summer of Night] || Simmons || males || boys' childhoods; King novels; evil demons ||  || Horror ||
 * [|The Voyage Out] || Woolf || female ||  ||   || Classics ||
 * [|The Rotter’s Club] || Coe || males ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Juniper Tree Burning] || Long || female ||  ||   || Adult ||
 * [|The Sky is Everywhere] || Nelson || female ||  ||   || Teen ||
 * [|Bonjour Tristesse] || Sagan || female || teenage girl ennui ||  || Adult ||
 * Brooklyn || Toibin || female || 1950s Ireland, leaving home || 262 || Adult ||
 * Everything Good Will Come || Atta || female || Biafran war, girls' education || 334 || Adult ||
 * Tightrope Walkers || Almond || male || poetic/lyrical; life of crime vs intellect || 326 || Teen ||
 * Black Deutschland || Pinckney || male || race and sexuality || 294 || Adult ||
 * A Visitation of Spirits || Kenan || male || race and sexuality || 257 || Adult ||