Bildungsromans

  • Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 4

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    A poignant coming-of-age series that’s moving and musical from the creator of Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare! Yutaka is a boy treasured by his choir for his beautiful, soprano voice. But what [more below]

    • Series: Shonen Note: Boy Soprano
    • Author: Kamatani, Yuhki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646515048
    • Language: English
  • Shonen Note: Boy Soprano 5

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    A poignant coming-of-age series that’s moving and musical from the creator of Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare! Yutaka is a boy treasured by his choir for his beautiful, soprano voice. But what [more below]

    • Series: Shonen Note: Boy Soprano
    • Author: Kamatani, Yuhki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646515056
    • Language: English
  • The Bittlemores

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    A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada’s Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creat[more below]

    • Author: Arden, Jann
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1039008712
    • Language: English
  • While We Were Dreaming

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    Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Ever

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    • Author: Meyer, Clemens
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804270288
    • Language: English
  • We’re Safe When We’re Alone

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    Son is real. Son was saved from a life he cannot remember. Son is a human in a mythical world of ghosts. This is what Father tells him.

    Son has lived his entire life inside the mansion. He is a good

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    • Series: Nvla
    • Author: Nghiem, Tran
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896835
    • Language: English
  • The World Divided by Piper

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    From the critically acclaimed author of the ALA Notable and Charlotte Huck Honor Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time comes the story of Piper Franklin, the girl who is way too busy to grow up . . . unt

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    • Author: Carter, Caela
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 0062996665
    • Language: English
  • Bodega Dreams

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    In this “thriller with literary merit” (Time Out New York), a stunning narrative combines the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley.

    Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish H

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    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Quiñonez, Ernesto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 14 2000
    • ISBN10: 375705899
    • Language: English
  • Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

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    “A delightfully weird and very queer reimagining of 90s YA nostalgia.”Autostraddle

    “Queer dynamite.” –Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things

    Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detectiv

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    • Author: Milks, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 1952177804
    • Language: English
  • The Tobacco Wives

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    Most anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!

    “A bea

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    • Author: Myers, Adele
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063082934
    • Language: English
  • Ohio

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    “Extraordinary…beautifully precise…[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” –NPR

    “[A] descendent of the Dickensian

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    • Author: Markley, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 1501174487
    • Language: English
  • No Bones

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    No Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland–but don’t tell Amelia that. She’s the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn’t want to know what’s going on. But

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    • Author: Burns, Anna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 17 2002
    • ISBN10: 039332303X
    • Language: English
  • The Voyage Out

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    In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf’s wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version … [more below]

  • The Walled Garden

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    American grad student Lucy Silver comes to England to research Elizabeth Blackspear, a famous poet, but soon finds herself in a fight to save Blackspear’s historic gardens, hot on the trail of a decad[more below]

    • Author: Farrar Maass, Robin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1684631319
    • Language: English
  • Kamusari Tales Told at Night

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    From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village.

    It’s been a year since Yu

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    • Series: Forest #2
    • Author: Miura, Shion
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1542028884
    • Language: English
  • A Visitation of Spirits

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    “With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain.'”–San Francisco Chronicle

    When A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall

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    • Author: Kenan, Randall
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 080215929X
    • Language: English
  • The Other Boy

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    A beautifully heartfelt story about one boy’s journey toward acceptance. A book that Jill Soloway, the award-winning creator of Transparent, called “a terrific read for all ages” and Ami Polonsky, aut

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    • Author: Hennessey, M. G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062427679
    • Language: English
  • Cuentos Para Entender El Mundo (Libro 1) / Short Stories to Understand the World (Book 1)

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    Para todos aquellos que siguen siendo ni os aunque los adultos les obliguen a disimularlo.

    «DURANTE ESTOS a os los lectores me hab is dado tanto que me sent a en deuda con vosotros. Por eso he

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  • A Cigarette Lit Backwards

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    Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, A Cigarette Lit Backwardsis a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’[more below]

    • Author: Hacic-Vlahovic, Tea
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1419762893
    • Language: English
  • In the Key of Dale

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    Part comedy, part grief narrative, In the Key of Dale is a disarming coming-of-age novel about a queer teen music prodigy who discovers pieces of himself in places he never thought to look.

    Sixteen-y

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    • Author: Lefebvre, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1551529033
    • Language: English
  • Annotations

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    An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on Af… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook #0809
    • Author: Keene, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 17 1995
    • ISBN10: 0811213048
    • Language: English
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