Topical/Coming of Age

  • Which Side Are You on

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    Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

    How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to

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    • Author: Wong, Ryan Lee
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1646221486
    • Language: English
  • El Cerebro del Adolescente: Descubre Cómo Funciona Para Entenderlos Y Acompañarl OS / The Teenage Brain: Explore Its Workings to Understand and Suppor

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    En este magnífico libro, el doctor David Bueno, biólogo y neuroeducador de prestigio mundial, nos invita, de forma magistral y amena, a descubrir qué sucede en el cerebro de los adolescentes con la[more below]

    • Author: Bueno, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 31 2022
    • ISBN10: 8425361354
    • Language: Spanish
  • Emma

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    Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitabl… [more below]

    • Series: Signature Classics
    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1435172787
    • Language: English
  • Warlight

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – From the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient “an elegiac thriller [with] the immediate allure of a dark fairy ta[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Ondaatje, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525562966
    • Language: English
  • Fish Girl

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    The triple Caldecott winner David Wiesner brings his rich visual imagination and trademark artistry to the graphic novel format in a unique coming-of-age tale that begins underwater. A young mermaid,

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    • Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 0547483937
    • Language: English
  • Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

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    Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.

    Life under Aparthei… [more below]

    • Author: Marais, Bianca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: March 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0399575081
    • Language: English
  • Game Change

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    “Subtle, nuanced, and full of heart” (Kirkus Reviews), this powerful story about football and a boy on the brink of adulthood is perfect for fans of Carl Deuker and Mike Lupica.

    Seventeen-year-old Zeb

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    • Author: Monninger, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 20 2019
    • ISBN10: 1328595862
    • Language: English
  • Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

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    The ups and downs of the middle school experience are explored in these poems by award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George

    “Engaging.” —The Bulletin

    “Sweet and on key.” —Booklist

    “From humorou

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    • Author: George, Kristine O’Connell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 27 2018
    • ISBN10: 1328900185
    • Language: English
  • La Luna Dentro de Mí (the Moon Within)

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    A dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar.

    La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas… por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse a… [more below]

    • Author: Salazar, Aida
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 02 2020
    • ISBN10: 1338631063
    • Language: Spanish
  • How to Live Without You

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    In this heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about family, grief, and second chances, seventeen-year-old Emmy returns home for the summer to uncover the truth behind her sister Rose’s disappearance–on

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    • Author: Everett, Sarah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 0358256224
    • Language: English
  • Frankie and Amelia

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    A heartfelt companion novel to the critically acclaimed Chester and Gus about inclusivity, autism, friendship, and family, perfect for fans of Sara Pennypacker and Kate DiCamillo.

    After being separate

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    • Author: McGovern, Cammie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 0062463330
    • Language: English
  • Under the Lights

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    In the follow-up to Abbi Glines’s #1 New York Times bestseller Until Friday Night–which bestselling author Kami Garcia called “tender, honest, and achingly real”–three teens from a small southern to[more below]

    • Series: Field Party
    • Author: Glines, Abbi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1481438883
    • Language: English
  • A Tale of Two Maidens

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    Felise’s debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years’ War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be h[more below]

    • Author: Echols, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1647425433
    • Language: English
  • Horrid Henry and the Soccer Fiend

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    Age Level: 7 and up – Grade Level: 2 to 5

    Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter’s diary and improves it; goes shopping with Mom and tries to make her buy him some really nice new sneakers; is horrified when

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    • Series: Horrid Henry #0
    • Author: Simon, Francesca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1402217781
    • Language: English
  • Golden Arm

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    In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty–one strike at a time. By “a premier author of provocative

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    • Author: Deuker, Carl
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0358012422
    • Language: English
  • These Violent Delights

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    A Literary Hub Best Book of Year – A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year – A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books – A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall – An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Books That Are Cha

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    • Author: Nemerever, Micah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 15 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062963635
    • Language: English
  • Scarlet in Blue

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    A 2023 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK

    A beautiful and gripping psychological novel about a mother and daughter who, after a lifetime on the run from a dark and dangerous past, land in a small Michigan town tha

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    • Author: Murphy, Jennifer
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593183460
    • Language: English
  • Our Little World

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    “I was intrigued by Our Little World from the chilling first paragraph. It’s a coming-of-age novel complicated by a tragic and untimely death, and it’s also a novel about two sisters you will never fo[more below]

    • Author: Winn, Karen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593184491
    • Language: English
  • The Places We Sleep

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    A family divided, a country going to war, and a girl desperate to feel at home converge in this stunning novel in verse.

    Selected for Kids Indies Introduce List AND Kids Indie Next List

    It’s early Sep

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    • Author: Brooks DuBois, Caroline
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: July 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 0823451305
    • Language: English
  • Summer of Brave

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    Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2021
    School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Books 2021

    The Best Children’s Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College

    STARRED REVIEW! “With compassion, wr

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    • Author: Parks, Amy Noelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 0807576700
    • Language: English
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