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Coming of Age.

20 books

Adventure

The Trail of the Hawk

by Sinclair Lewis

An early Sinclair Lewis novel about a restless young American who trades the flatness of small-town life for the open sky, finding in flight and ambition a new kind of frontier.

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Children

Six Girls

A warm domestic story of sisters growing up together, in the family-centred tradition of nineteenth-century fiction for young readers.

$7.50

Classics

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.

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Children

Anne of the Island

by L. M. Montgomery

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Adventure

The Blue Lagoon

by H. De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole's famous romance of two children shipwrecked on a Pacific island, who grow to adulthood in innocent isolation and discover love, nature and the pull of the

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Fiction

I am a woman

A book announced by its title as a statement of self and identity.

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Adventure

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

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Classics

Summer

by Edith Wharton

A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

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Classics

The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

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Adventure

The Deerslayer

In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests.

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Classics

Martin Eden

by Jack London

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

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Adventure

Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.

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Adventure

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling turns a boy-overboard rescue into a sea-going coming-of-age novel about labor, discipline, pride, and earned self-respect aboard a North Atlantic fishing schooner.

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Classics

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens follows an orphaned boy from a cruel childhood to hard-won maturity, in the sweeping, deeply personal novel its author called his favorite child, filled with unforg

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Classics

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.

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Biography & Memoir

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre Lorde's groundbreaking memoir, which she called a biomythography, weaves memory and myth to tell the story of a Black lesbian poet coming into herself in mid-century America.

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Children

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

A wooden puppet’s journey from mischievous marionette to real boy is a darkly enchanting tale of folly, transformation, and the cost of growing up.

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Adventure

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A boy’s adventure becomes a brutal education in deception when a pirate’s map leads to mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.

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Adventure

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Huck Finn flees his abusive father and joins Jim, a runaway slave, on a raft down the Mississippi.

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Classics

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

A misty marshland, a mysterious benefactor, and a boy’s dizzying ascent into a world of wealth and illusion.

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