Topic
Coming of Age.

Adventure
The Trail of the Hawk
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.
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Classics
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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
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Adventure
The Blue Lagoon
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
Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.
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Classics
Summer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A misty marshland, a mysterious benefactor, and a boy’s dizzying ascent into a world of wealth and illusion.
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