“Spontaneous”, by Aaron Starmer, is an equally humorous and heartbreaking look at the unique experience of growing up in the modern age. When students start spontaneously exploding all around her, senior Mara Carlyle has to come to terms with her own mortality and make every moment count.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros follows a girl named Esperanza who moved to Chicago when she was 12. The story is about how she faces challenges but still grows from them. It is a coming of age story and is very inspiring and poetic. The novel was replete with so many events that take place in a person’s life.
A Separate Peace is the coming-of-age chronicle of young Gene Forrester, a studious
and introverted student of Devon, an elite boys’ boarding school. His roommate is a popular,
adventurous, risk-taking athlete: Finny. With their participation in World War II just around the
corner, they savor these last days of boyhood, climbing trees and going to beaches and having
snowball fights. But in the background of their friendship a dark rivalry and jealousy lurks, and
The Catcher in the Rye is a fictional novel written by J.D. Salinger. This novel
is about a 16 year old named Holden Caufield. He gets expelled from his prep
boarding school. He is confused about how to make a way in the world. He feels
as if it is his against the world, as he struggles with his past and present, as well
as future. His parents play a major role in what he thinks about himself. He also
has many friends and girlfriends that impact him. He thinks many people are
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a powerful coming-of-age book told as a series of
letters from freshman in high school Charlie. He’s endured difficult experiences, and he feels
distant from his peers but yearning to participate. Through Charlie, Chbosky gives a stunning
account of the experiences of anxiety, awkwardness, and depression. He also demonstrates the
propensity of life to change and to improve, and the beauty of relationships. After Charlie begins
The House on Mango Street is a fiction novel written by Sandra Cisneros.
This novel is about Esperanza Cordero, who shares her feelings and life with the
readers through vignettes. She talks about her struggles due to the
neighborhood she is from, and the lives of people in that time, and that status.
The neighborhood she lives in is disliked by her and many others, causing her to
feel ashamed of her life. She shares her life with her parents, siblings, and friends
I'll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson, is a realistic fiction coming-of-age novel about two twins as
they experience life, with and without each other.
The Outsiders by Francis Ford Coppola is a classic coming-of-age movie. In this movie,
Ponyboy finds himself caught up in the middle of a few too many conflicts. Ponyboy is a
greaser, and being a greaser isn’t easy. He knows he can depend on his brothers, Darry and
Sodapop, and the gang. He also knows not to trust the socs. When Ponyboy’s friend, Johnny,
kills a soc in self-defense, the two boys are forced to go on the run with the help of Dally. Being
