Books like Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An Irish-American girl grows up poor in early-twentieth-century Williamsburg on her mother's stubbornness and her doomed father's charm, and the Brooklyn she walks to school in is its own weather.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto retired from tennis with twenty Grand Slam titles and a reputation as the most ruthless woman in the game, and in 1994, at thirty-seven, she comes back to defend her record against a younger player, with her father as her coach again.
Purple Hibiscus
Kambili, fifteen, lives a silent, ordered life in Enugu under her father, a rich, devout and violent man, until she and her brother go to stay with their aunt in Nsukka.
Western Lane
After her mother's death, eleven-year-old Gopi, the youngest of three sisters in a British Indian family, is set to train at squash by her grieving father, and the hours on court become the way she and her family carry their loss.
The Member of the Wedding
Twelve-year-old Frankie Addams, restless through a hot Georgia summer, decides she will leave town with her brother and his bride after their wedding, while the family cook and her small cousin keep her company in the kitchen.
The Emperor of Portugallia
Jan, a poor crofter in Värmland, adores his daughter Klara Gulla, and when she leaves for Stockholm to pay off the family's debt and doesn't come back, his mind slips into the belief that she is an empress.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
This Time Tomorrow
On the eve of her fortieth birthday, with her father dying, Alice Stern wakes up on her sixteenth birthday in 1996, in her father's New York apartment.
Bowlaway
At the turn of the twentieth century, a woman named Bertha Truitt is found unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery with a bowling ball and fifteen pounds of gold, and goes on to found a candlepin alley that outlasts her.
Dear Edward
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills 191 people, his parents and older brother among them, and as he goes to live with his aunt and uncle in New Jersey the novel moves between his new life and the last hours of the flight.
The Catcher in the Rye
A teenager expelled from prep school wanders New York City for three days, raging against phoniness while revealing the grief he can't face.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In 1687 Kit Tyler leaves Barbados for her aunt's strict Puritan household in Connecticut, and her friendship with an old Quaker woman the town calls a witch puts her in danger.