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Bildungsromane
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A Separate PeaceGene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. |
FIC KNO |
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The House On Mango StreetA young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. |
FIC CIS |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
FIC Mcculler s |
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The Wind Blows BackwardAlthough they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by her fear of his moody, self-destructive side. |
FIC Hahn |
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Native SonTrapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young African-American man finds release only in acts of violence. |
FIC WRI |
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Annie JohnA fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance. |
FIC KIN |
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Rule of the BoneThe story of a troubled fourteen-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself. |
FIC BAN |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes |
FIC Bradbury |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayJoe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans. |
FIC CHA |
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Native SonTrapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young African-American man finds release only in acts of violence. |
FIC WRI |
