Showing results for "Coming of Age" in Family Life

Trey knows how the trick works: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there’s the con, where Trey’s dad suckers the other parents into giving him money for one of his schemes. Once the money’s in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad go on the run … until they set up somewhere else and start again.

A hopeful and heartwarming story about finding joy after tragedy, Amil and the After is a companion to the beloved and award-winning Newbery Honor novel The Night Diary, by acclaimed author Veera Hiranandani At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in...

A coming-of-age middle grade novel about three best friends born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina who must confront storms of their own 12 years later, from a National Book Award winning author. Born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Greer, Joya Mia, and Kiki are seventh graders and the best of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Reality proves more epic than fantasy in this family road trip story starring a reluctant young hero and his curmudgeonly grandfather. A Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor Book Gonzalo Alberto Sánchez García has never considered himself the hero of his own...

Winnie and her mom have been “two girls against the world” for longer than Winnie can remember. But now Mom is moving Winnie away from her beloved Denver, away from her two best friends. In Rock Springs, Wyoming, Winnie will have to make new friends (hard), go to a school where the kids tease her (unbearable), and get used to living with her stepfather-to-be and his annoying son (impossible). Winnie is determined to find a way back to Denver and her old life. But how? If only the magic in the stories that Winnie adores were true.

I Fårup Fjord på danska landsbygden är det full fart under sommaren. 13-åriga Terne sköter ormarna i sin pappas terrarium, beklagar sig över sin nördiga storebror Björn och smider hemliga planer med sin bästa vän Emma. Terne blir också förälskad i den söta köpenhamnskillen Hugo, som semestrar hos sin mystiska pappa och styvmamma, som är nyinflyttade och som driver en minigolfbana i närheten av Ternes hem. Tillsammans med Emma försöker Terne leka detektiv och få belöningar för att fånga snattare och avslöja flera andra skumma affärer.

Normally "back to school" means gathering supplies and buying new clothes, but Frankie Caridi has never known normal. So when her "back to school" consists of learning how to use crystals to power her mind and trapping marauding spirits, she adapts. But the secrets of magic are nothing...

2026-2027 Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2026 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award Longlist Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025 A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection From the acclaimed author of Sincerely Sicily, Tamika Burgess, comes a timely coming-of-age story about a young...

The debut novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Rest of the Story! The more things change... As far as Haven is concerned, there’s just too much going on. Everything is changing, and she’s not sure where she fits in. Her father is getting married to the...

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk and Strange Birds, a dazzling novel about a young girl who collects the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores she’s never met. A 2023 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book Twelve-year-old Adela “Addie”...

In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Too Bright to See, a sixth-grader's life is turned upside down when she learns her dad is trans Annabelle Blake fully expects this school year to be the same as every other: same teachers, same classmates, same...

Bea's parents think she can accomplish absolutely anything—and she's determined to prove them right. But at the end of seventh grade, on the same day she makes a gutsy play to send her softball team to the league championships and Xander, the boy she likes, makes it clear that he likes her too, a scandal shakes up her world. Bea's dad made a big mistake, taking money that belonged to a client. He's now suspended from practicing law, and another lawyer spread the news online. To make matters worse, that other lawyer is Xander's dad.

The Fosters meets The Great Gilly Hopkins in this moving novel of a young girl who as sets off on an important mission to save a fellow foster kid from the home that still haunts her nightmares. Twelve-year-old Pavi Sharma is an expert at the Front Door Face: the perfect mix of puppy dog eyes...

The wannabe-cool, Tamil-nerd vibes of Never Have I Ever meet the hidden life of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim in this funny, poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut from Maria Marianayagam. A Sri Lankan boy’s life spirals out of control when he wins a prize in a stolen candy bar...

13-årige Emmy får arbejde i det lokale friluftsbad. Da hun og storebror Martin skal være alene hjemme i 14 dage, holder de en kæmpefest, men så går det galt. En storebror, som måske ikke er helt så irriterende endda, og som oven i købet har foreslået, at vi holder en fest.

Sometimes even a girl who likes to rely only on herself needs to be brave enough to ask for help. When a super-storm hits Addy's remote mountain town, knocking out the bridge and cutting her home off from the main road, she worries that she won’t be able to get to the survival camp she’s...

A baseball audiobook full of on the field action perfect for middle grade readers. "Strike one is the best pitch in baseball." Mike loves pitching, and he loves knowing his team counts on him to deliver wins. But Mike's father starts to worry that Mike is getting too carried away with baseball...

Two best friends on the run... to IKEA. Frankie and Walter aren’t really running away. Just like the kids in their favorite book, they are running to somewhere. Specifically, a massive furniture store. They’ve been obsessed with the Ikea catalog for years. So they make a plan, pack their...

Svět je plný dětí tak hrozných, že na ně jedna audiokniha rozhodně nestačí. Tihle vejlupci jsou ještě mnohem horšejší než tlupa, kterou vám představil první díl. Tak třeba proti Hubertovi je Otesánek hadr. A Stáza nebo Simon tolik touží po slávě a vítězství, že se neštítí ničeho! Věřili byste, že někdo může být tak nemilosrdný, aby chtěl trápit roztomilá koťátka? A co kdyby na vás někdo nachystal vanu plnou slimáků, žížal, pavouků, housenek a švábů? Tahle banda odporníků zkrátka skutečně stojí za to!

Seznamte se s pěti příšernými kluky a pěti hroznými holkami! Třeba s Žofkou, která stojí jen o jedno: válet se celý den na pohovce a koukat na telku. Není divu, že se jí stane ta hrozná věc, o níž se tu snad ani nebudeme zmiňovat! Nebo se Samem, který slintá tak moc, že se na školním výletě dostane do strašného průšvihu! A nezapomeňte ani na Brečivou Bertu, ubulenou holku, která si příšerně vymýšlí! Svými superschopnostmi vás omráčí i Všivák Véna, Špindíra Štěpka či Dlouban Dan.