coming of age
Dragonhaven
Author: Robin McKinley
ISBN: 9780441016433 DDC: 823.54
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I keep having these conversations with Dad.
I’m at my computer. He says, “What are you doing?” I mutter something, because the screen has a lot of squiggles on it so he already knows what I’m doing.
Jake has grown up at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies. [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, 813.54, coming of age, Dragonhaven, dragons, fantasy, first person narrator, good read, Robin McKinley, sci-fi, sff, ya
Purple Hibiscus
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007189885 DDC: 823.92
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Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagére.
Kambili, the teenage narrator of the book, is a 15 year old girl. In [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, 823.92, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, coming of age, Fiction, first person narrator, Nigeria, Orange Award Winner, Purple Hibiscus, religion, teenagers
The Tooth Fairy
Author: Graham Joyce
ISBN: 1857983424 DDC: 823.914
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Clive was on the far side of the green pond, torturing a king-crested newt.
I’ve read a few Graham Joyce books at this stage; this one by him won the [...]
Tagged: 1960s, 5 Stars, 823.914, Britain - 1960s, British fantasy award winner, coming of age, England, folklore, Graham Joyce, meh, Once Upon A Time Challenge, sff, The Tooth fairy
Thumbsucker
Lou Taylor Pucci …. Justin Cobb
Tilda Swinton …. Audrey Cobb
Vincent D’Onofrio …. Mike Cobb
Vince Vaughn …. Mr. Geary
Keanu Reeves …. Perry Lyman
I’m not sure exactly how to review this film. I enjoyed it while watching, it is humourous and fun, but it is also a bit odd, and [...]
Tagged: coming of age, Keanu Reeves, Lou Taylor Pucci, Thumbsucker, Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, weird
where we once belonged
ISBN: 0241139295
Set in Samoa where we once belonged is the coming of age story of Alofa, a 13 year old girl growing up in the village of Malaefou. I wrote my final year English essay on this, and Perception of Polynesia in literature, so you’d think I would have remembered it. Well, most parts I [...]
Tagged: 9 Stars, coming of age, Samoa, Sia Figel, Where we once belonged
The Outsiders
Author: S.E. Hinton
ISBN: 0006722253
I decided to reread this after hearing that the film has been recut and rereleased.
The Outsiders is one of those classic YA books. Although I never read it at school I think it might be on one of the optional reading lists.
The story revolves around Ponyboy, he tells the story, the first [...]
Tagged: 10 Stars, 813.54, coming of age, first person narrator, S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Tatty
author: Christine Dwyer Hickey
I really liked this book. The writing was simple and straight-forward but wonderful. Dwyer Hickey makes Tatty, the character, come alive, and gives her a voice of her
own. A voice that is childlike, but also one that hints at the damage beneath her youth.
The book tells the story of Tatty’s dysfunctional family, [...]
Tagged: 9 Stars, childhood, Christine Dwyer Hickey, coming of age, Tatty
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