Growing Up and Coming of Age
Annotation:David Case, 15 years old and certain that Fate is out to get him, changes his name to Justin Case and reinvents himself to try to avoid his destiny.
Place a Hold
Annotation:We live one summer in the life of Katie Nash, the summer of 1961 when she learns the meaning of true friendship.
Annotation:Cassandra Mortmain, ambitious to become a writer like her father, keeps a journal of life with her chaotic family in an old crumbling ruin of a castle. This is a perfectly observed little jewel of a book by the author of "101 Dalmatians".
Annotation:Brian Jackson, unworldly yet striving to be considered an intellectual man of the world, sets out on his first term at University and tries to win the beautiful Alicia while he's about it. His appearance on the University's quiz team leads predictably to total disaster. This is a very funny, (but so true it hurts!) novel about the pains of growing up.
Annotation:A heartbreaking little fable about the nature of reality and the power of belief, this Australian novella tells how Ashmol fights to save his sister's life by finding and bringing back to her, her two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, by simply believing in them.
Annotation:Patty Bergen, a young Jewish girl in a small Arkansas town, risks losing everything - her friends, her family - by sheltering an escaped German prisoner.
Annotation:Flora Thompson describes the very end of a way of life that had existed in the English countryside for centuries, as she talks about her Oxfordshire village during the last twenty or so years of the nineteenth century, up to the death of the old Queen, Victoria.
Annotation:The poet, Laurie Lee's recollection of his childhood in deepest Gloucestershire at the end of the First World War, this book tells us of life in the English countryside before cars and commuting - a time that is now gone forever.
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Those significant moments and events that take us from innocence to experience make for some of the most enjoyable (and often moving) fiction around. Try some of these titles if you enjoy this kind of book.