Ready For The World: Driver’s Education Ready For The World: Driver’s Education follows the story of Brandon Delacruz, a fifteen-year-old Filipino American teenager trying to make his way through life during the late 1980s. What Brandon wants out of life is simple: a cool car, a chance to be one of […]
Category: coming of age
Synopsis “A seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth, an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose face he cannot bear to see, a mother weary of searching for her lost child: Tea by the Sea is their story-that of a family uniting and unraveling. To find the daughter taken from her, Plum […]
ALL THINGS LEFT WILD by James Wade Genre: Adventure / Rural Fiction / Coming of Age Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publication Date: June 16, 2020 Number of Pages: 304 pages Scroll down for the giveaway! After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley […]
Synopsis Izzy’s trying to cope with life, love, and loneliness, but her fast life in Houston is rapidly spinning out of control. So when the twenty-three-year-old American takes a job at an international resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, she hopes her old life is behind her at last—and with it, all the self-doubts and […]
Review & #Giveaway – The Misbirth by D.B. Moffatt #4paws #comingofage
September 14, 2018
Synopsis A pair of high school seniors are pressured into a blind date. They end up in the back seat of a car and pregnant. The mores of 50’s Americana mandate they drop out of high school and marry. They have a baby girl. Both are emotionally unstable before meeting. A marriage in Hell only […]
Title: All The Little Lights Author: Jamie McGuire Release Date: May 29, 2018 Synopsis The first time Elliott Youngblood spots Catherine Calhoun, he’s just a boy with a camera, and he’s never seen a sadder and more beautiful sight. Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other. But […]
THE EL PASO RED FLAME GAS STATION AND OTHER STORIES by J. Reeder Archuleta Genre: Fiction /Short Stories / Coming of Age Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC Date of Publication: December 8, 2017 Number of Pages: 132 Scroll down for the giveaway! These short stories are about coming of age in rural far West Texas. The […]
Book Title: Dancing in the Rain (The Italian Family Series) Author: Lucy Appadoo Category: Adult Fiction, 274 pages Genre: Historical Coming of Age/Romance/Family Drama Release date: March 24, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 + M (There is physical abuse and death involved.) Synopsis Fifteen-year old Valeria Allegro works diligently on the family farm in Italy, where […]
THE ADVENTURES OF MISS VULPE A Coming of Age Story for Adults by MARIA ELENA SANDOVICI Genre: Contemporary / Women’s Fiction / Coming of Age Date of Publication: April 7, 2017 Number of Pages: 160 Ana Petrescu (aka Miss Vulpe) is a troubled teenager determined to solve the mystery of her parents’ double suicide. […]
Synopsis An ensemble sets off on a dark comedy of errors and uncertain conclusions, featuring original music throughout the story. Theo and Judah, two childhood friends, are trying desperately to find an audience for their hard-edged, “grunge” music as they move past their twenties and feel the need to establish careers. Together, they enroll in […]