Coming of Age Stories
One could view The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as a coming of age book.  Such a view places Christopher's journey in the context of a list of great stories from across literature.

Non-Fiction Books in the Library

• American Teenager
• Our last best shot: guiding our children through early adolescence
• Teenagers: An American History

• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Fiction

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Are you there God? It's me, Margaret
• Bell Jar
• Catcher in the Rye
• Go tell it on the mountain
• House on Mango Street
• Jane Eyre
• Little Women
• Lord of the Flies
• Member of the Wedding
• Red Badge of Courage
• The Chosen
• Their Eye Were Watching God
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Selected Articles from our databases:

• Adolescent Identity Formation and Rites of Passage: The Navajo Kinaaldá Ceremony for Girls
• Factors Influencing Informal Groups of Adolescents
• Coming of Age in Twenty-First Century America: Public Attitudes Towards The Importance and Timing of Transitions To Adulthood
• Coming of Age in a Multicultural World: Globalization and Adolescent Cultural Identity Formation
• Teenage wasteland: coming-of-age novels in the 1980s and 1990s
• The challenge and the glory of young adult literature
• Coming of Age
• Holden Caulfield, Alex Portnoy, and Good Will Hunting: Coming of age in American films and novels
• For Iraqi Girls, Changing Land Narrows Lives

Coming of Age in Film

• CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Behind the Gross-Out Humor, The Teenage Movie in Hiding Adolescents Are Being Shortchanged on Candor
• Goblet of teen angst (Harry Potter)

Coming of Age Book Lists found on the Internet

• Coming of Age Novels—lists coming-of age books according to male, female, gay&lesbian, African American, international, and Jewish American categories
• Readers Advise
• Coming of Age (From the Chicago Public Library)
• Female Coming of Age stories
• Male Coming of Age stories

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