Search results: "Family & Coming of Age"
Filter By:
1 - 10 out of 184 results
Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family ... but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. "Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kids, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at...
My Perfect Family
By: Khadijah VanBrakle
Release: July 2025
Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family ... but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. "Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kids, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at...
The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a...
The AI Incident
By: J.E. Thomas
Release: July 2025
The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a...
Sweet Like Sugar Cane by Leah T. Williams is a tender coming-of-age novel set in the lush rhythms of St. Kitts. It follows 15-year-old Gwen Richards, a teenager navigating the complexities of first love, family expectations, and her own identity. As Gwen's feelings for Lenwell Turnbull begin to bloom, she finds herself torn between honoring her family's traditions and pursuing her own desires. The...
Sweet Like Sugar Cane
By: Leah T. Williams
Release: June 2025
Sweet Like Sugar Cane by Leah T. Williams is a tender coming-of-age novel set in the lush rhythms of St. Kitts. It follows 15-year-old Gwen Richards, a teenager navigating the complexities of first love, family expectations, and her own identity. As Gwen's feelings for Lenwell Turnbull begin to bloom, she finds herself torn between honoring her family's traditions and pursuing her own desires. The...
Major and Dante know how to run — from parties, from the cops, and sometimes from the weight of everything they’re carrying. Best friends since childhood, they’ve always had each other’s backs, especially when no one else did. But growing up Black, queer, and invisible in a world that sees you as a threat before it sees you as a person leaves its marks. Set against the backdrop of late-night drum...
Blue Lights
By: RV Alister
Release: May 2025
Major and Dante know how to run — from parties, from the cops, and sometimes from the weight of everything they’re carrying. Best friends since childhood, they’ve always had each other’s backs, especially when no one else did. But growing up Black, queer, and invisible in a world that sees you as a threat before it sees you as a person leaves its marks. Set against the backdrop of late-night drum...
Francine Stevenson's chance encounter with a ten-year-old who shows up at her doorstep after her mother's sudden death spirals into an adventure for the ages Francine Stevenson gets more than she bargained for when she rescues ten-year-old Davie from a group of bullies clamoring to snatch his beloved iPad. From that day forward the puzzlingly direct boy continues to show up at her door until the ...
Francine's Spectacular Crash and Burn
By: Renee Swindle
Release: April 2025
Francine Stevenson's chance encounter with a ten-year-old who shows up at her doorstep after her mother's sudden death spirals into an adventure for the ages Francine Stevenson gets more than she bargained for when she rescues ten-year-old Davie from a group of bullies clamoring to snatch his beloved iPad. From that day forward the puzzlingly direct boy continues to show up at her door until the ...
Everything was taken from him. His parents were lost, his home destroyed, and his identity supplanted with a name that repeats the symptoms of his brokenness. With a word, the path before him becomes clear, but with every step he takes towards a life beyond the street, the more he realizes that the threat of that night follows him still...
The Word of Y'Neshu: Heart of the Ijeya
By: Jordan Hampton
Release: March 2025
Everything was taken from him. His parents were lost, his home destroyed, and his identity supplanted with a name that repeats the symptoms of his brokenness. With a word, the path before him becomes clear, but with every step he takes towards a life beyond the street, the more he realizes that the threat of that night follows him still...
In the early 2000s, twenty-two-year-old Ann Corbin moves to the vibrant city of Losanti, Ohio, carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the lingering absence of her mother. As Ann grapples with her painful past—a childhood marked by bullying and a string of heartbreaking rejections—she yearns for acceptance, love, and a true sense of belonging... ...a place she can finally call home. ...
Make Me Free
By: Jaye Pool
Release: March 2025
In the early 2000s, twenty-two-year-old Ann Corbin moves to the vibrant city of Losanti, Ohio, carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the lingering absence of her mother. As Ann grapples with her painful past—a childhood marked by bullying and a string of heartbreaking rejections—she yearns for acceptance, love, and a true sense of belonging... ...a place she can finally call home. ...
Tracey Elizabeth Zells has always felt like an outsider, growing up in a broken foster care system and plagued by bizarre, inexplicable incidents. As her high school graduation approaches, she finally sees a glimmer of hope — a chance to escape her small town and pursue her dreams of college. But on a night of celebration, everything changes. Suddenly thrusted into a dangerous game of deception, ...
In The Shadow of Silver & Black
By: Shauna Sagaji
Release: February 2025
Tracey Elizabeth Zells has always felt like an outsider, growing up in a broken foster care system and plagued by bizarre, inexplicable incidents. As her high school graduation approaches, she finally sees a glimmer of hope — a chance to escape her small town and pursue her dreams of college. But on a night of celebration, everything changes. Suddenly thrusted into a dangerous game of deception, ...
When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his judgmental family members that Denz is capable of commitment he impulsively lies about being in a serious relationship. Problem is the last serious relationship he was in hung him high and dry after leaving the conti...
I Think They Love You
By: Julian Winters
Release: January 2025
When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his judgmental family members that Denz is capable of commitment he impulsively lies about being in a serious relationship. Problem is the last serious relationship he was in hung him high and dry after leaving the conti...
Marisa is not an Oreo. She is not a wannabe. She’s just a Black girl growing up in a small white town in the Midwest who doesn’t know how to be Black. What happens when she realizes that assimilation is no longer the answer? Follow along on her cultural awakening in the coming-of-age novel “The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook.”
The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook
By: Candace Johnson
Release: December 2024
Marisa is not an Oreo. She is not a wannabe. She’s just a Black girl growing up in a small white town in the Midwest who doesn’t know how to be Black. What happens when she realizes that assimilation is no longer the answer? Follow along on her cultural awakening in the coming-of-age novel “The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook.”
1 - 10 out of 184 results
Search results: "Family & Coming of Age"
Filter By:
Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family ... but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. "Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kids, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at...
My Perfect Family
By: Khadijah VanBrakle
Release: July 2025
Sixteen-year-old Leena has always wished for a big family ... but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. "Lonely Leena" is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kids, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at...
The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a...
The AI Incident
By: J.E. Thomas
Release: July 2025
The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get a...
Sweet Like Sugar Cane by Leah T. Williams is a tender coming-of-age novel set in the lush rhythms of St. Kitts. It follows 15-year-old Gwen Richards, a teenager navigating the complexities of first love, family expectations, and her own identity. As Gwen's feelings for Lenwell Turnbull begin to bloom, she finds herself torn between honoring her family's traditions and pursuing her own desires. The...
Sweet Like Sugar Cane
By: Leah T. Williams
Release: June 2025
Sweet Like Sugar Cane by Leah T. Williams is a tender coming-of-age novel set in the lush rhythms of St. Kitts. It follows 15-year-old Gwen Richards, a teenager navigating the complexities of first love, family expectations, and her own identity. As Gwen's feelings for Lenwell Turnbull begin to bloom, she finds herself torn between honoring her family's traditions and pursuing her own desires. The...
Major and Dante know how to run — from parties, from the cops, and sometimes from the weight of everything they’re carrying. Best friends since childhood, they’ve always had each other’s backs, especially when no one else did. But growing up Black, queer, and invisible in a world that sees you as a threat before it sees you as a person leaves its marks. Set against the backdrop of late-night drum...
Blue Lights
By: RV Alister
Release: May 2025
Major and Dante know how to run — from parties, from the cops, and sometimes from the weight of everything they’re carrying. Best friends since childhood, they’ve always had each other’s backs, especially when no one else did. But growing up Black, queer, and invisible in a world that sees you as a threat before it sees you as a person leaves its marks. Set against the backdrop of late-night drum...
Francine Stevenson's chance encounter with a ten-year-old who shows up at her doorstep after her mother's sudden death spirals into an adventure for the ages Francine Stevenson gets more than she bargained for when she rescues ten-year-old Davie from a group of bullies clamoring to snatch his beloved iPad. From that day forward the puzzlingly direct boy continues to show up at her door until the ...
Francine's Spectacular Crash and Burn
By: Renee Swindle
Release: April 2025
Francine Stevenson's chance encounter with a ten-year-old who shows up at her doorstep after her mother's sudden death spirals into an adventure for the ages Francine Stevenson gets more than she bargained for when she rescues ten-year-old Davie from a group of bullies clamoring to snatch his beloved iPad. From that day forward the puzzlingly direct boy continues to show up at her door until the ...
Everything was taken from him. His parents were lost, his home destroyed, and his identity supplanted with a name that repeats the symptoms of his brokenness. With a word, the path before him becomes clear, but with every step he takes towards a life beyond the street, the more he realizes that the threat of that night follows him still...
The Word of Y'Neshu: Heart of the Ijeya
By: Jordan Hampton
Release: March 2025
Everything was taken from him. His parents were lost, his home destroyed, and his identity supplanted with a name that repeats the symptoms of his brokenness. With a word, the path before him becomes clear, but with every step he takes towards a life beyond the street, the more he realizes that the threat of that night follows him still...
In the early 2000s, twenty-two-year-old Ann Corbin moves to the vibrant city of Losanti, Ohio, carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the lingering absence of her mother. As Ann grapples with her painful past—a childhood marked by bullying and a string of heartbreaking rejections—she yearns for acceptance, love, and a true sense of belonging... ...a place she can finally call home. ...
Make Me Free
By: Jaye Pool
Release: March 2025
In the early 2000s, twenty-two-year-old Ann Corbin moves to the vibrant city of Losanti, Ohio, carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the lingering absence of her mother. As Ann grapples with her painful past—a childhood marked by bullying and a string of heartbreaking rejections—she yearns for acceptance, love, and a true sense of belonging... ...a place she can finally call home. ...
Tracey Elizabeth Zells has always felt like an outsider, growing up in a broken foster care system and plagued by bizarre, inexplicable incidents. As her high school graduation approaches, she finally sees a glimmer of hope — a chance to escape her small town and pursue her dreams of college. But on a night of celebration, everything changes. Suddenly thrusted into a dangerous game of deception, ...
In The Shadow of Silver & Black
By: Shauna Sagaji
Release: February 2025
Tracey Elizabeth Zells has always felt like an outsider, growing up in a broken foster care system and plagued by bizarre, inexplicable incidents. As her high school graduation approaches, she finally sees a glimmer of hope — a chance to escape her small town and pursue her dreams of college. But on a night of celebration, everything changes. Suddenly thrusted into a dangerous game of deception, ...
When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his judgmental family members that Denz is capable of commitment he impulsively lies about being in a serious relationship. Problem is the last serious relationship he was in hung him high and dry after leaving the conti...
I Think They Love You
By: Julian Winters
Release: January 2025
When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince his judgmental family members that Denz is capable of commitment he impulsively lies about being in a serious relationship. Problem is the last serious relationship he was in hung him high and dry after leaving the conti...
Marisa is not an Oreo. She is not a wannabe. She’s just a Black girl growing up in a small white town in the Midwest who doesn’t know how to be Black. What happens when she realizes that assimilation is no longer the answer? Follow along on her cultural awakening in the coming-of-age novel “The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook.”
The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook
By: Candace Johnson
Release: December 2024
Marisa is not an Oreo. She is not a wannabe. She’s just a Black girl growing up in a small white town in the Midwest who doesn’t know how to be Black. What happens when she realizes that assimilation is no longer the answer? Follow along on her cultural awakening in the coming-of-age novel “The Kitchen Isn’t Where You Cook.”