Coming of Age - Teens Ficton

THE WORLD AS SHE KNEW IT WAS A LIE.Artemis Lupine thought she was just your typical seventeen-year-old girl. Her life is a never-ending puzzle she's trying to figure out daily, and her sleep habits are horrid at best. When she can fall asleep, she...

Mary Lennox is a troubled, sickly, and unloved 10-year-old girl born in India to selfish, wealthy British parents. When her parents die, she is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England. As Mary is exploring the periphery of her uncle's gardens, a...

A shocking thriller about a group of friends who go to a cabin to play a murder mystery game...only to have the game turned against them, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends.FIVE friends go to a...

A FIGHTING HEART. AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP. ONE BOLD IDEA. Karina Prashant, a gutsy girl raised by her single mother, is determined to get out of a financial rut. After inheriting an abandoned land from her father, she is compelled to move to the historic...

Having finally rescued her friend, Delphine is left with a secret that could put all of Tartora at risk. Stranded on an island and with their relationship in tatters, Delphine and Nik are further than ever from finding and defeating Grey. But now they...

A witchy, atmospheric lesbian contemporary romance set in Salem--from the acclaimed author of Fans of the Impossible Life. Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli.Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft--or to think that her life could...

A queer YA coming-of-age set during the rigged Honduran presidential election, about a young poet discovering the courage it takes to speak her truth about the people and country she loves. As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner...

Nina LaCour meets Jenny Han in this beautiful and charming story of six moments that lead to two girls, one kiss, and eventually, three little words that were maybe always true. After years of bickering, Penny and Tate have called a truce: they'll play...

Why did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the U.S.'s cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nation's rapid but uneven development c.1900-1960? As a genre that historically represented the young individual's development...

I was not loved. I was not wanted. I did not belong. After a miserable childhood, a job offer at Thornfield Hall seems to promise Jane Eyre a brighter future. But haunting, joyless laughter echoes along Thornfield Hall's corridors. Strange things happen in the...

"Drenched in authentically southern foreboding...a journey down the Choctawhatchee River redolent of James Lee Burke and Dennis Lehane." -Gillian French, Edgar Award-nominated author of Sugaring Off and The Lies They Tell Whenever a body is yet again found along the Choctawhatchee River, the same...

Katie and Kai were as close as two siblings could get - they were twins. Inseparable from birth, they protected each other fiercely, right up until the day Kai died. In an awful act of violence, Kai is taken away from Katie, murdered by...

It wasn't fair.Princes were supposed to go on adventures.Instead, Thony's older sisters had gone off on The Quest and Left Him Behind. In Aldyrwald, of all places. I mean, yeah, it was their home and Thony was Crown Prince and all, but seriously? Aldyrwald...

When my dog runs away on the beach and into the arms of a handsome surfer, I think I'm in luck. Until I realize said surfer is actually a crusty, rude, player who acts like he owns the ocean.I want to forget the encounter...

Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp. Now in paperback! Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that's what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes--when you don't feel "deaf enough"...

Danger comes in many forms.Does safety only come in one?Sophomore year at Presidio Prep is usually the easiest. Not for the Core5. This year is full of danger and drama. One member of the team goes missing. One has stalkers. Two are beaten. And...

The dragon of Kural is dreaming of a song that is not his. He stirs and tries to shrug, but his wings are pinned.Seventeen-year-old Emlin is about to become a fully-fledged crafter of dragon-inspired stained glass. Then her mother is murdered following a mysterious,...

★"An Enchanting Journey into Magical and Ethereal Realms"★★"Unveiling the True Magic of Self-Discovery and Transformation"★★"A Tapestry of Destiny, Dreams and Cosmic Mysteries Intrigue"★★"A Spellbinding Story Awakens the Magic within Each of Us"★★"A Fascinating Fusion of Fantasy and Spirituality"★In a realm where time and space...

When you're gambling with lives, stacking the deck is your best bet.Kit's sixteenth birthday went from bad to worse when she got dragged off to investigate rumours of spider god worshippers infesting a nearby village.The investigation turned manhunt when one of the cultists kidnapped...

1949 Saint Paul/Minneapolis - those memorable days of push lawn mowers, corner grocery stores, big-band music, burning leaves and filling stations that check the oil and wash the windshield. On this nostalgic canvas, Stanley West has set his riveting and heartwarming novel, the devastating...

A young girl named Lily lives in a city obsessed with materialistic things. Yet Lily finds more meaning in the forest just beyond her home. When the one thing she's loved is taken from her, will she find beauty somewhere else, or try to...

The Adventures of Thiga is an exciting adventure story that allegorically expresses the trials of achieving manhood. Join Thiga on his quest to uncover the truth about his life.Author: C. M. MureithiISBN-10: 9966470751ISBN-13: 9789966470751Publisher: Phoenix PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2022Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w...

Fourteen-year-old Shanti's home is in a village in eastern India, where her parents work in the rice fields. She attends school in a town forty kilometres away and hopes to become a teacher. But while she is home on vacation, her mother gives birth...

High school senior Artiman has a gift for baking, but he's always viewed it as just a hobby. That all changes one fateful day at Gold City Mall, where he stumbles upon a mysterious store and finds himself transported to World Palace-a realm of...

An orphan boy. A mysterious stranger. A city in crisis. When 14-year-old Lance is saved from death, his life is forever changed. For starters, his savior claims to be King Arthur, the once and future ruler of ancient Britain. Lance has met lots of...

Can a summer change a life? Can a moment last forever?Aidan's life is falling apart - everything he thought he knew has been shattered. Now he's forced to spend the summer at his mom's aunt's house in a small seaside town.Angry and hurt, he...

A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at...

An outcast among his kind, Arias the Gryphon is taken aback when a group of newcomers called Strigigryph offer him a place among their ranks. Their territory is stunning, but Arias can't shake the feeling that something isn't right. Why don't other Gryphons here...

Jayne Wu is an inexplicably lucky 13-year-old in a future Earth obsessed with its own survival. The Swarm, a meteor field billions of kilometers across, will soon smash through the solar system, destroying all life-and possibly the planet itself. The only hope for humankind's...

Eddie's father, two uncles, and best friend are all dead, and it's a struggle for him not to end up the same way. Violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion were buried beneath the city. Making an effort to walk...

Eldarin and Eldeena, twin siblings orphaned at a young age after the murder of their parents, were raised in the village of Umbraxia at the orphanage. Kept in the dark as to the nature of their parents' deaths, the two grew up as normal...

"I've learned one thing for sure. A friend-or an enemy-is not always who we think they are. And it only took me twenty years to figure it out."When Coral, a neglected 12-year-old from a trailer park, meets Rosella, her eccentric, retired neighbor, an unlikely...

This kaleidoscope of a story is told in the words of a fifteen-year-old girl hiding in plain sight in her own city and of a pilot fifty years earlier flying secret missions over Laos during the Vietnam War. No one knows Julia skipped STEM...

Love or Music... Which should they choose and what price do they have to pay?When new guy, Tully, falls for sixteen-year-old Kit, he needs to find a way to win her over. Because, right now, she only has eyes for scorching hot lead-singer, Mac...

As development overturns the landscape of North Carolina, tenth-grader Chris Fuller knows he'll end up fighting Brandon, a new kid who just moved into the housing development that destroyed Chris's beloved pine forest. Brandon turns out to be a real runner, far better than...

Can light shine from the darkness of disability? Is there anything to gain from a life of being a young carer? Is there hope for any of us? This book may give some answers. "Poetic Persuasion: The Young Carer's Ink" is a collection of...

'Eragon' meets 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda' in this queer YA fantasy adventure that will leave you breathless until the last page.With war threatening to shatter Ivearth's 500 years of peace, Prince Xavier embarks on a perilous quest to the mystical isle of...

Medar is the first book in the Realmshift Trilogy by S R Manssen. What if you discovered that the only world you've ever known ISN'T the only world? That there's another whole world out there? Except nobody believes you. Add to that, being sentenced...

With a missing child and the shadows of the past lurking in the woods, Angie Jackson must find the courage to face her fears and save the day. In this coming-of-age story, Angie learns to trust her instincts and the support of her community...

Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz * Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth's novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as...

"Away With Words" takes the reader on a journey of discovery with fifteen year old Charlie. His dyslexia has made him cautious and insecure but this summer life has stepped in and forced him to deal with things he never expected to. He must...

Told in diary format, 14-year-old Franny journals about the year when she moves to Japan to be with her father and all the adventures she has learning a new culture, fitting in at a new school, and navigating feelings for more than one boy....

If Nadine's life was a fairy tale, she'd be in the middle of her own Cinderella story. Evil Step-Mother. Check. Lazy Step-Siblings. Check. All she needs is her Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming and she'd be set. What she doesn't know is she's really...

Tired of being told to take some initiative, Princess Alice of Wonderland does exactly that: she runs away from Wonderland Castle and to the Enchanted Forest. Ill-prepared for her Quests, Alice is assigned a reluctant Huntsman with a secret of his own. The last...

A mysterious event on an old bridge leaves three friends wondering if their wishes might come true. Each young woman must decide to what extent they will go to facilitate their wish and at what cost.Friendships will be risked, and family will suffer. Do...

BEYOND CRAZY YEAR: A Contemporary Coming of Age Novel Bry, a 15-year-old boy, is devastated after missing out on the chance to play in the Little League National finals. Disillusioned, he escapes into the world of professional online gaming, intent on shutting out reality....

Melanie needs a job. With her mom's medical bills stacking up, she knows she needs to do something to help them stay on their feet. The only place hiring is the very last place she would ever want to work: Mexicandy America. She just...

A sacrifice to duty. Magic gone awry. And a prince with the worst luck on the continent.It will take a determined princess and a more-than-usually resourceful frog to uncover what's really going.Author: Deborah Grace WhiteISBN-10: 1925898792ISBN-13: 9781925898798Publisher: Luminant PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2023Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize:...

In the quiet shadows of a West Virginia town, where ordinary lives drift along like whispers in the wind, Lucas Caine stands unnoticed. A high school backup quarterback, he dreams of capturing the attention of the unattainable Elizabeth. But fate, like a sudden storm,...

Aspiring artists- their grit, passion, and determination to achieve- are at the heart of this unforgettable novel.Anna Forester is an intelligent and sensitive sixteen-year-old at the top of her local ballet school in Illinois. She arrives at the bottom of the prestigious School of...