Showing titles in Coming of Age

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer - the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things they shouldn’t, as their brother and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers - irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there’s a serpent in this paradise - and the consequences will be devastating.

Theo Briggs is a rule follower. He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed. Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and embarrassing situations—and Caleb is about ready to call the whole thing off. When Theo and Caleb meet in the basement of an old Catholic church that's rumored to be haunted, an instant and electric connection forms between them.

Anna Lucia Bell believes in luck: bad luck. Bad luck made her best friend stop talking to her. Bad luck caused her parents' divorce. Bad luck is forcing her mother, Miriam, to sell the family's beloved bookstore. And it is definitely bad luck that Anna seems to be the only person in the world Miriam is unable to recommend a life-changing book. When Anna finds out that she and her mom are spending two months in a New England seaside town called Rockport, she expects a summer plagued with bad luck too. But Rockport has surprises in store for Anna.

Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she's gay. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity.

It's bad enough when high-school senior Keeley grabs the wrong phone while leaving her small town's end-of-summer fair. It's even worse when she discovers that the phone she now has belongs to the obnoxious, self-centered Talon and that he's just left for football camp ... with her phone...

Two teenagers discover how an unexpected turn of fate can bring new love to heal old wounds in Jessica Pennington's stunning, romantic YA audiobook When Summer Ends. Aiden Emerson is an all-star pitcher and the all-around golden boy of Riverton. Or at least he was, before he quit the team the...

Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, this YA rom-com about a girl who follows a trail of paper hearts from her mystery admirer will give you all the feels. Ella’s life was picture perfect. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life...

Jade is a girl striving for success in a world that seems like it's trying to break her. She knows she needs to take every opportunity that comes her way. Every day Jade rides the bus away from her friends to a private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. Jade feels like her life is made up of hundreds of conflicting pieces. Will it ever fit together? Will she ever find her place in the world? More than anything, Jade just wants the opportunity to be real, to make a difference.

Ariane, Edgar et Ulysse viennent d'obtenir leur bac. Pour la suite en revanche, l'avenir s'annonce plus incertain. Alors qu'ils sont en proie au doute, une étrange série d'épreuves va leur être imposée. Au bout, une seule issue: leur admission dans une université aussi extraordinaire que mystérieuse. À Noisulli, lieu presque magique dissimulé du commun des mortels, des milliers de jeunes élus comme eux viennent apprendre à maîtriser leurs songes.

Bailey Harris hat ihre Bucket-List im Griff: Publikumsliebling in einer angesagten Streamingserie, einen erfolgreichen Podcast, Spaß im Leben. Nur leider hat sie seit Neuestem auch einen Stalker. Und zu ihrem Entsetzen wird ihr ausgerechnet Jackson als Bodyguard geschickt!

Stella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents’ constant fights, and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie. Until Kevin. A quiet, wry senior who understands Stella and the lows she’s going through like no one else. With him, she feels less lonely, listened to - and hopeful for the first time since ever.... But to keep that feeling, Stella lets her grades go, and her friendships slide.

The only thing Jean Honeychurch hates more than her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just . . . Jean) is her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere she goes–which is why she’s thrilled to be moving in with her aunt and uncle in New York City...

Elle est joyeuse, la vie de Nana, entre ses meilleures copines, l'école française d'Alger, les garçons à embrasser et les boîtes de pastels achetées au trabendo. Un jour, sa grande sœur Souad est envoyée étudier en France. Un an plus tard, Nana a douze ans et c'est son tour. Elle rejoint sa sœur et doit apprendre le froid, le gris, la solitude – le mensonge, surtout. Sur fond de décennie noire, ce parcours d'émancipation d'une jeune fille explore les fêlures et les résiliences de ceux que l'histoire atteint dans leur chair.

Um seinen karrierebewussten Vater zu schockieren, entscheidet sich der vierzehnjährige Louis für ein Schülerpraktikum bei der Friseurin seiner Oma: sieben Tage Haare zusammenfegen im Salon Marielou. Lust dazu hat er eigentlich nicht, aber als er anfängt, ist ihm auf einmal gar nichts mehr egal. Er will sein eigenes Leben leben. Auch gegen den Willen seines Vaters. Mit ihrem umwerfenden Humor, mit viel Sympathie und Herzenswärme erzählt Marie-Aude Murail von den skurrilen Figuren und dem prallen Leben in einem französischen Friseursalon, in dessen Mitte Louis seine Begabung entdeckt.

Nick weiß eigentlich echt viel – aber nichts so richtig. Okay, Fußball findet er nice, Deutschprofessor wird er in diesem Leben safe nicht mehr und Bierpong-Turniere sind definitiv besser als Lernen – aber all diese Weisheiten helfen ihm denkbar wenig, als seine Mur, wie er seine Mutter seit Kindertagen liebevoll nennt, sich neu verliebt und zu einem anderen Mann zieht.

Kaija si trasferisce con la famiglia da una grande città al paese sperduto dove sono cresciute la madre Ruth e la zia Josepha. Nella nuova scuola si sente invisibile, ignorata da tutti, ma questa solitudine diventa anche l'occasione per scoprire molte cose di sé stessa e chi sono i veri amici. Il ritorno non è facile nemmeno per Ruth e Josepha. Entrambe, in tempi diversi e per motivi diversi, erano fuggite da lì, spinte dal desiderio di un'altra vita.

Filled with a friend group that feels like family, an empowering journey of finding your own way, and a Just Kiss Already! romance, Begin Again is an unforgettable novel of love and starting again. As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: transfer to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State and chase her...

Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp. 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” to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the...

Sixteen-year-old Maggie Scott is a little dramatic. Life is just more fun when you’re always putting on a show! But apparently her boyfriend, Theo, disagrees, because he unexpectedly dumps her. She’s so distressed she breaks her foot, has to be rescued by the most obnoxious boy in school, Carson, and can no longer star in the school play. Now everything is terrible and Maggie doesn’t understand where it all went wrong. So when she gets a mysterious text from an unknown number offering her a chance to relive the day when she and Theo met, Maggie can’t help clicking.

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. In 12 hours, they'll be heading to opposite ends of the country, and they're anxious to resolve things before they go. But the quiet night they had planned quickly turns into an unexpected adventure, a roller-coaster ride through their past that leads to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations.