bildungsromans

After they meet, Rufus and Syd depend on each other to survive small-town life in the Bible Belt since neither one of them fits the expectations of their small town.

Teagan Sullivan may come from a family of Olympic equestrians, but after becoming a golden disappointment herself, she goes to pony Thoroughbreds at a no-name racetrack. There, she struggles with her feelings for the blacksmith Screaming Wolf, and also finds herself rooming with a would-be jockey named Anne Simmons. Anne, a scrawny eighteen-year-old, dreams of racing in a Derby, but those dreams seem sidelined for good when she suffers a near-fatal accident. Both Anne and Teagan see a chance for redemption at the upcoming Breeder's Cup Classic.

Eigthteen-year-old Debbie White has lived a sheltered life on her family's rural dairy farm with her mentally unstable mother and alcoholic uncle. But everything changes when Debbie is accepted into Trinity College Dublin and begins commuting to classes a few days a week. As Debbie's worldview starts to expand, she starts to pull away from her life at home. But when a terrible accident strikes the farm, her life is upended in ways she never would have expected.

"With home life destabilized by her father's postwar trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college, while her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook. Their close relationship is threatened when they both fall for the same charming classmate at their new high school. But a devastating car accident renews the sisters' deep bond and forces them to reverse their roles" -- Amazon.

"Resigned to being an outcast, Angelo isn't alone. Kirsten, a crushable ex-cheerleader and graffiti artist, and Larry, a self-proclaimed invisible band geek, recognize a fellow outsider. Soon enough, Angelo finds himself the leader of their group of misfits. They may be low on the high school food chain, but they're determined to hold their own"--Provided by publisher.

In 1937 Australia, a na?ve seventeen-year-old girl is awakened culturally and sexually by an Armenian visitor who relates exotic tales--including the "Epic of Gilgamesh" to her--and, two years later, as the world braces itself for war, she sets off with her young son to find him in Soviet territory.

While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.

Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.

Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.

"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--Provided by publisher.