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Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield begins his story at Pencey Preparatory Academy, a boarding school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. At sixteen in 1948/1949, Holden has been expelled due to poor work and is not allowed to return after Christmas break. He plans to return home on that day so that he will not be present when his parents receive notice of his expulsion. He feels lost and disconnected from everyone but his ten-year-old sister Phoebe.

In spite of the Christian faith she has learned from her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis, and the rest of her family, Virginia finds the transition from childhood to adulthood difficult, as she copes with restrictions she finds unreasonable and her friendship with Jenny.

Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.

In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something...

With only 198 days before the start of sixth grade, Zoey Zinevich embarks on a journey of self-discovery in her quest to become "cool."

In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever.

"A social media influencer is shipped off to a digital detox summer camp in this funny coming-of-age story"--

While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.

Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a Web site that is receiving national attention.

A roman a clef about coming of age during a time that left its mark on baby boomers around the world, a time when we really believed we could change the world before it changed us.