Before You Take a Stand...You've Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially engaged-on the inside in a private world all his own. In reality he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the "in" crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems...

"From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril."--

The novel is a classic Künstlerroman -- a coming of age story centered on its titular protagonist, a self-taught would-be writer, struggling to rise above his impoverished proletarian roots in working-class Oakland, California, to achieve a place among the literary elite. The driving force behind Martin Eden's ambition is his love for Ruth Morse and a desire to accumulate enough wealth and prestige to satisfy her bourgeois family.

For one 1970s teenager, winning at poker and winning on Wall Street go hand-in-hand: "A coming-of-age story for the ages." -Peter Lattman, vice chairman, The Atlantic In the wake of his mother's death, Rogers Stout has no choice but to grow up fast. By high school, he already has the gambler's gifts: a titanic brain, an uncanny ability to read people, and a risk-taker's daring. All he lacks is direction . . . Everything changes the summer...

Boyhood (1854) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Boyhood is the second in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka's journey from innocence to experience. As a record of the past, a nostalgic reminder of a lost world, Boyhood is one of Tolstoy's most personal works, and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes that...

"Based on the true story of Taj Rowland, who was kidnapped as a child from his village in Southern India, sold to an orphanage, and then adopted by an American couple"--

These three connected early novels from the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina form an intimate portrait of Russian youth.   Begun when Leo Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, his work known as the Autobiographical Trilogy would win immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. ...

This novel may help you appreciate the benefits of homeschooling during this time of global pandemic.Written with love, humor, compassion and exasperation, "Miss?"-a contemporary novel based on actual events-exposes the failure of our current public education system. McHargue presents an insider's view of the issues that teachers in schools across the nation are too afraid to discuss openly for fear of recrimination, and provides a glimpse of the...

Hendrix in the Corner is a coming-of-age tale about a young reclusive musician learning to make sense of the world.

La misión de todo hijo es defraudar a sus padres. Este libro trata, sobre todo, del rechazo a un don. El libro es un mazazo a los sueños adolescentes, a los sueños que todos tenemos y que cambian muy poco con el pasar de los años, esos mismos que se vuelven frustración, que quedan fijos en momentos de la vida como banderas de mundos que no conquistamos (revista Arcadia). "Soy yo, desde adentro, queriendo ser la estrella que ellos intentaron ser....