Books like The Getting of Wisdom
Laura Rambotham, a clever, awkward girl from the country, is sent to a Melbourne ladies' college and learns to lie in order to fit in.
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My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, a fiery girl on a struggling farm in the New South Wales bush, wants a life of art and books, and refuses to marry.
Beneath the Wheel
Hans Giebenrath, the gifted son of a Black Forest merchant, is pushed by his father and teachers into the elite Maulbronn seminary, where a rebellious friend shows him another way to live.
Sinister Street
Michael Fane, born in the 1880s to a mother who is often away and a father he never sees, grows up in Kensington with his sister and their nurse, and goes on to school in West London.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St Valentine's Day 1900, a party of girls from Appleyard College goes on a picnic to Hanging Rock in Victoria, and three of them and a teacher vanish.
Lives of Girls and Women
Del Jordan grows up in the small Ontario town of Jubilee in the 1940s, among the women of her family and the town, and wants to be a writer.
My Brother Jack
David Meredith grows up in a Melbourne suburb after the First World War in the shadow of his tough, generous older brother Jack, and becomes a journalist while Jack's luck runs the other way.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
Nervous Conditions
A Shona girl pursues education in 1960s Rhodesia, confronting colonial and patriarchal barriers.
Annie John
Annie John grows up in Antigua adored by her mother, until at twelve she begins to grow up and the love turns into a war.
Drylands
In a dying town in the Queensland outback, Janet Deakin, who runs the newsagency, writes a novel about her neighbours, and their stories of cruelty and leaving fill the book.
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.