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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.

Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's acclaimed smash hit is a groundbreaking celebration of life. Stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

The world is closing in on 14 year-old Greta Driscoll. A teen at a cross roads, she can’t bear to leave her childhood behind because it contains all the delightful things that give her comfort in this otherwise incomprehensible world. Existing in a bubble of security alongside only friend Elliott, Greta’s parents decide to throw her a surprise birthday party where she’s taken well out of her comfort zone and flung into a strange parallel world...

During the summer in the 1960s that he turns thirteen, a brilliant boy from a poor family develops an unlikely friendship with the Jewish jeweler in town; has his first romance; begins to think, as do most people in their Southern town, that his older brother murdered a popular boy from down the street; and distances himself from his father.

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.

Jeanne is a little girl who lives with a mischievous young fox named Pistouvi. They share a charming little treehouse surrounded by a magical prairie tended by a giant 'tractor-man' and the wind-spirit he loves. Together, Jeanne and Pistouvie spend frolicking days without a care, but soon, the birds arrive and everything changes... A beautiful, lyrical fable about the inevitable transition from childhood freedom to adult responsibility, replete with...

"A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie, who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash"--

Three hours before his wedding, Roland has second thoughts. His best buddies are around to help sort those feelings out, and to reminisce about their coming-of-age days.

When a stranger appears on their farm at the exact time of her father's death, eleven-year-old Toss thinks he might be the Devil and sets about protecting her family and home.