Fiction, Coming Of Age
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What He Saw
by Glenn Parker
When Ryan Sinclair is twelve, he sees something at the beach that he thinks might be a murder when he observes a man carrying a woman into the trees, but he isn't certain. He attempts to tell his mom about it, but doesn't want to upset her so he ...
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Golden Ribbons
by Beth McMurchie
In the late 1800s of Scotland, a deadly coal mine explosion leaves seven children orphaned. Adolescents, Rachael and Todd, set out to find their individual paths in middle and upper class environments. Along the way they are met with jealousy, ...
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Denver Aquarius
by Alan W. Lehmann
As America’s psychedelic sixties bled into the self-absorbed seventies, traditional churches, old psychological theories and political dogmas slid into disrepute. Natural cures, self-help books, and Eastern religions vied energetically to replace ...
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The Boys of '63
by Robert Battistuzzi
The silence of the peaceful night is broken. Change is on it's way for Bobby and his friends of Wattinger, North Dakota. It is the summer of 1963 in a typical prairie town where the coming of age for teens presents the same challenges is in any ...
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Sole Paddle
by H R Campbell
Sole Paddle speaks of solitude and relationships, of walking alone and in community—and of embracing the present and future as part of a team, but also, sometimes with a sole paddle. It tells the story of John Bear, a young man from the isolated ...
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My Inner Elf
by Mindy Watson
Move over Vampires; witches and other super natural beings. Make way for elves that can shape shift, cast spells. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a princess or an elf? What if you found someone you trusted betrayed your family? ...
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Of Rags And Grades
Struggle of One by Chol-wdwuok
Newly arrived in Kakuma Refugee Camp, adolescent Chelow has left much of his beloved family behind in South Sudan. With his brother and cousins for company, he gradually adjusts to the sometimes harsh camp life with good humour and a growing sense ...
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Dust In The Wind
Volume 1: The DeLaine Reynolds' Journey by SaDonna Rogers
A horrific, killer tornado rips through Wichita Falls in 1979, launching 12 year-old DeLaine Reynolds into adolescence. Living in a tiny 'rattle-trap trailer' with her abusive step-mother and step-brother and struggling with feelings of abandonment, ...
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Dreammaker
by Dean Eilertson
Set in Nova Scotia, Dreammaker is a story about a young man’s life in the late 1940's. Every film starts its life as a ‘pitch’. It’s the first thing all Producers, Directors and Actors insist on reading. Screen plays or scripts are either original ...
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Life is a Dance, Step One
by GreenBranch Dorothy Phyllis Miller
Life leaves a mark-a limp-a scar... in exchange for a song-a kiss-a star... Author, GreenBranch, aka Dorothy Phyllis Miller, writes this historical novel based on a true story in moving scenes depicting the life of a young woman born to an ...
